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Ricky Echolette
Cologne, Germany
Ricky Echolette is credited on 245 releases across 50 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1985–2022 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
245
Pressings credited
50
Albums
5
Decades active
22
In collections
Biography
Ricky Echolette (born Wolfgang Neuhaus; 6 August 1960) is a former member of the German synth-pop Alphaville. He played keyboards, piano, and guitar in the band from 1985 until his departure in 1997. In January 1985, he replaced Frank Mertens, who left Alphaville after the release of their first album Forever Young. Marian Gold was an old friend of his and had already asked Echolette to join the group two years earlier. Echolette had declined the offer to stay in Gold's previous group Chinchilla Green. He left Alphaville in 1997 during the production of Salvation to live in the South of France with his family. He is credited for writing the songs along with Gold and Bernhard Lloyd, but did not play on the album.
Bio from Wikipedia
Credited work
245 releases · 50 albums · active 1985–2022
- Performance · 266
- Other credits · 131
- Engineering · 2
Studios: Lunapark Studios · Studio 54, Berlin · The Town House · EMI Studios, Cologne
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Alphaville
- Various
- αVille
- Unknown Artist
- Thee Flanders
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