Michael Duwe
| Michael Duwe | |
|---|---|
| Also known as | Mickie D, Mickie Duwe, Micky Duwe, Mickie D’s Unicorn |
| Born | Berlin-West, Germany |
| Genres | Soundtracks, Electronic Rock & Pop |
| Occupation(s) | composer, singer, songwriter, producer |
| Instruments | Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards |
| Years active | 1968–present |
| Labels | IC-Records, Warner Bros., Edel Records, Navigator |
| Associated acts | Agitation Free, Ash Ra Tempel, Metropolis, Mickie D’s Unicorn, Trance Vania |
| Website | www.MickieD.com |
Michael Duwe, aka Mickie D, is a composer, producer and musician from Berlin (former West-Berlin), Germany. He is composing music for German television series, documentaries or film. Besides several solo albums, including his 1978 masterpiece ‚Mickie D’s Unicorn, he has worked with different bands, musicians and producers like Agitation Free, Ash Ra Tempel, Klaus Schulze, Michael Hoenig, Michael Shrieve, Wolfgang Loos (Alphaville) or Conny Plank.
He started out as singer/ songwriter in the late 1960s, was an early founding member of Agitation Free and toured with the German cast of the musical HAIR in 1970/ 71. In 1972 Ash Ra Tempel asked him to join them as singer for their recording of the psychedelic album Seven Up, that took place in collaboration with Timothy Leary in the Sinus Studio in Bern, Switzerland. 1973 he was founding member of the Berlin band Metropolis with whom he played and toured for the next three years. After recording the album Metropolis and releasing the single "Super Plastic Club", the band produced a multi-media show based on Ray Bradbury's The Illustrated Man, before they split in 1976.
While still with Metropolis he was asked to write the music score for – and perform in – the theater play Die Hälfte des Himmels und wir (La Moitié du ciel et nous) by French author and director Armand Gatti, which was played in 1975 at the Berlin Forum Theater.
In 1977 he founded Albatros Concerts and for a short time promoted bands like Patty Smith, Bob Marley, Blondie or early Dire Straits before he again concentrated on his career as composer and musician. Michael Hoenig asked to help him with a sequence that was meant to be a part of his first solo album “Departure from the Northern Wasteland“. So Duwe composed and played harmonies and the melody that then became the instrumental "Sun & Moon“.
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