As I recall Boris celebrated his 50th birthday earlier this year. Am I on the completely wrong track..? /Hank

The Movie database says that Dieter is 57 and Boris is 64 (his birthday was last week 2 october)

<http://us.imdb.com/Name?Meier,+Dieter>http://us.imdb.com/Name?Meier,+Dieter

<http://us.imdb.com/Name?Blank,+Boris+(II>http://us.imdb.com/Name?Blank,+Boris+(II)

Jeroen

----- Original Message ----- From: <mailto:warlock@seste.net>The Warlock To: <mailto:yello@mailman.xmission.com>yello@mailman.xmission.com Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 6:47 PM Subject: [Yello] How (how) old are Dieter and Boris?

Hi all! Forgive my lack of knowledge ;-), but do you know how old Dieter and Boris are?

Chris

-- Henrik Betnér Henrik@Betner.nu

le 08/10/02 14:37, The Warlock à warlock@seste.net a écrit : 57 and 64!! They are looking surprisingly young, I think. Thanks! Chris Hello everyone, Well I know that we must necesserly beleive what we read in newspaper but take a look at this: It was written 5 years ago and Boris was 43 by then...so he must be 48 years old now. Paul The Sun, Friday May 30th 1997. SUICIDE ROCKER BILLY'S LOST GEMS HELD IN SWISS BANK VAULT. Tribute .... Billy's new album is finally to be released. Suicide rocker Billy MacKenzie has left behind a secret legacy of two completely new albums. The former star of The Associates, who shot to fame in the 1980's with hits including Party Fears Two and Love Hangover, killed himself with a drug overdose in January. His younger brother Jimmy is currently working in a London studio to release the last songs the star recorded. The Scots singer had also recorded eight tracks with top Euro chart stars Yello, which are presently locked away in a vault in Switzerland. TRACKS. Yello founder Boris Blank, 43, teamed up with his showbiz pal almost a decade ago to make an album together. However, due to work commitments, the pair never saw their songs make it to the shops. Just days before his death, Billy and Boris even discussed releasing the new tracks. Now that's set to become a reality. Boris explained : I played on and produced about eight tracks together with Billy. No one has ever heard these songs. I'm still thinking of Billy every day and I'm still sad and shocked. It was a very dark beginning to the year and I still can't bring myself to actually play these songs that we made. I'm not ready to start working on these tracks. I've got them locked up in a safe at my bank, but I can't bring myself to even open it. KEEN. Some of the songs are about nine years old - but they are fantastic. His voice is just so natural, beautiful and timeless. He added: I was talking to him on the phone shortly before he died. He was telling me how happy he was and how keen he was to get working on our songs again and also all the new stuff he was doing. I was saying how I could remix our tracks to bring them up to date with the 1990's and we promised to get to work on them soon. That was the last phone call we had together. We'd been good friends for so many years, but now the only comfort I can take is that I know I'll be working with him in spirit in the studio. At present I have no solid plans to release the songs. But I know his fans will be very eager to hear the new tracks. They really are lovely. He wrote one called Norma Jean which of course, is about Marilyn Monroe. It's a kind of ballard about her life and it's amazing. I suppose it's tragic that he wrote a song about someone whose life was cut tragically short, the same way his life turned out to be. But I have to wait until I'm feeling in a good shape emotionally to remix these tracks. If I played them now I'd just break down and cry. Boris - who has had chart success around the world with the hits The Race and Of Course I'm Lying - believes that their work would have relaunched Billy's career. He said : I did the music on all these tracks and Billy wrote all the lyrics. This stuff would have been a breakthrough for Billy in my opinion. It would have shown him in a completely different light from before. I didn't understand it when he killed himself. I attended his memorial in London in a real daze. People explained to me more about his background. But no one thought he was so depressed, no one suspected a thing. Billy killed himself after becoming depressed by the death of his mum. Boris said: It's so hard to take it in especially when things were just starting to take off for him. MONEY. -- Paul Cauffopé castingcauffope@exmachina.qc.ca 103, Dalhousie Québec (Québec) G1K 4B9 Tél.: (418) 694-6165 Fax: (418) 692-2390

Re: [Yello] How (how) old are Dieter and Boris?No, you're right, Boris celebrated his 50th birthday earlier this year on January 15! I actually sent him a birthday letter (as many other fans did) through Jonas Warstad! :-) See ya! /Per ----- Original Message ----- From: Henrik Betnér To: yello@mailman.xmission.com Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 7:21 PM Subject: Re: [Yello] How (how) old are Dieter and Boris? As I recall Boris celebrated his 50th birthday earlier this year. Am I on the completely wrong track..? /Hank The Movie database says that Dieter is 57 and Boris is 64 (his birthday was last week 2 october) http://us.imdb.com/Name?Meier,+Dieter http://us.imdb.com/Name?Blank,+Boris+(II) Jeroen ----- Original Message ----- From: The Warlock To: yello@mailman.xmission.com Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 6:47 PM Subject: [Yello] How (how) old are Dieter and Boris? Hi all! Forgive my lack of knowledge ;-), but do you know how old Dieter and Boris are? Chris -- Henrik Betnér Henrik@Betner.nu

I wonder if the fans of any other groups are as indifferent as you are?

Oh please! Thanks for the birthdays, Adelka, but you could have kept the rest to yourself! Chris

I didn't mean you personally, but the majority of the Yello fans.

No, I knew that, but still...the things apart from the birthdays were unneccesary. Chris