ALAN SILSON former original Smokie in MediaMovie TALK (2011)

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A relaxed Alan Silson, co-founder of the legendary group Smokie ("Living Next Door To Alice"), talks about himself, his music and over the Christmas period.

Ex-Smokie Alan Silson was recently a guest at the "media movie-talk" studio and chatted at length about themselves and their forthcoming Christmas song "Let There Be Christmas," to which Alan Silson at media movie for the end of a music video production was commissioned

Almost "50 gold, or platinum records" can Silson recorded during his forty-year musical career in his account, which speaks for the popularity and the sensational success of the group.

Company owner Jurgen Salzmann movie and media presenter Steffen Schmidt were certainly excited about the interview with the last 5 years living in Germany musician, for the English pop band "Smokie" is ultimately a piece of music history.

Alan (David) Silson (guitar & backing vocal) co-founded with his former school friends Chris Norman (Vocals) and Terence David Uttley (bass) the band that finally, with the this worse for wear drummer Peter David Spencer under their later name "Smokie" among other pop legends ABBA and Boney M became world famous.

The ballad, mostly semi-acoustic "West Coast" sound of the band became her trademark and the guarantee of their success.
It created mega-hits such as "If You Think You Know How To Love Me," "Needles and Pins", "For A Few Dollars More," "Mexican Girl," "It's Your Life," "Oh Carol", "Lay Back in The Arms of Someone "and of course their absolute high-flyer hit" Living Next Door To Alice ", the following self - Non-Smokie generations - in the Gompie cover" Who The F *** Is Alice know "as Fetenhit? .
The sum of the aforementioned chart hits to the music legend made Smokie also beyond Europe. An American tour Alan Silson but has never done. "We did not want English as a branch of the" "and apply their West Coast sound, and instead prefer the" Eagles "preserve the original status," revealed the media Silson movie team behind the scenes.

In the interview itself took about Silson position himself and his music, but spoke in reference to his forthcoming Christmas song "Let There Be Christmas" is also about his childhood memories of the Christmas season.
The question of whether the modern, very commercial embossed Christmas compared to the old tradition has changed since he felt, was a moderator of the question cards Steffen Schmidt.