Pink Bubbles Go Ape

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TRACKLIST:

01. Pink Bubbles Go Ape
02. Kids of the Century
03. Back on the Streets
04. Number One
05. Heavy Metal Hamsters
06. Goin’ Home
07. Someone’s Crying
08. Mankind
09. I’m Doin’ Fine, Crazy Man
10. The Chance
11. Your Turn

Recorded at PUK Studios in Gjerlev, Denmark, 1990
Mixed at Battery Studios in London, England

LINEUP:

    • Michael Kiske – vocals
    • Roland Grapow – guitar
    • Michael Weikath – guitar
    • Markus Grosskopf – bass
    • Ingo Schwichtenberg – drums

Additional Musician:

  • Pete Iversen & Phil Nicholas – Keyboards

CREDITS:

  • Produced, Engineered and Mixed – Chris Tsangarides
  • Sound Engineeing – Pete Iverson and Lars Laverson
  • Additionial Engineering – Paul Wright
  • Sleeve design and photography – Storm Thorgerson and Colin Chambers. Storm Thorgerson designed the Pink Bubbles Go Ape’s cover and the girl on that cover is his niece
  • Photographer – Tony May

“Heavy Metal Hamsters” and “I’m Doin’ Fine, Crazy Man” – Recorded at Sound House Studio in Hamburg, Germany. Produced by Helloween, Engineered by Dirk Steffens and mixed by Chris Tsangarides

 

Pink Bubbles Go Ape is the fourth studio album by German power metal band Helloween, released on 11th March 1991. It was also the first album released on EMI Records. It marked the departure of guitarist Kai Hansen, with Roland Grapow replacing him.

 The album contains two singles,  “Kids of the Century” and “Number One”.

“Kids of the Century” reached #56 in the United Kingdom.

The track “Heavy Metal Hamsters” (supposedly written about the band’s former record company) was, according to Michael Weikath, never intended to be on the album, but rather on a B-side of a single.

Storm Thorgerson directed the video for “Kids of the Century.”

Helloween performs in the music video “Kids of the Century” from the album “Pink Bubbles Go Ape”. The music video begins with a shot of a well-dressed woman kissing a fish. The band performs on stage under colored lights while clips the band wearing strange glasses and standing in glass booths play throughout

After the album was released, a lawsuit stopped Helloween from touring for a year. In the spring of 1992 an agreement was done, and they could finally play on a short European Tour starting in Hamburg 30 April 1992, and in the autumn they also played some shows in Japan.