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Birthday:August 7, 1962

Birthplace:Hamburg

Height:190cm

Weight:75kg

Former Band:Powerfool

Musical Influences:The Beatles, Deep Purple,Rainbow, Scorpions, UFO, Van Halen, Led Zeppelin, Sex Pistols,Wishbone Ash

Michael Weikath was born in Hamburg 07.08.62, West Germany. In hisearly days he spent almost all his loose time at the tube stereoset of his parents, sensing to all the stations available at thetime, often too long and loud that he got dizzy and needed to go tobed.

He kinda regards those days his ’studying years’. Got one of thosefirst little battery powered transistor radios too, first cassetterecorder when I was 9 yrs old&, he claims, Making crap ‘yeahyeah yeah oooh’ Ukulele Xylophone washing powder drum recordingswith a few classmates, man, THOSE were bad!

Michael started ministering school in 1969. His first owned albumwas The Beatles Best collection 62-66 and visited his first rockmusic concert at age 13: Ocean, a Wishbone Ash/Boston type Hamburgband….returned put up quite drinker that evening and got introuble with his female parent.

He tried to visit and watch all their shows…

In 1974 he got taught to play the acoustic guitar for one year andgot himself an electric guitar and a distortion plight 1 1/2 yearslater. He later had rehearsal-regard experiences with friends, evenan imaginary Punk band called Indeed.

Second tended to pupil rock concert was Aerosmith in 1977 at theAuditorium Maximum Hamburg, fee 5 DM (2 $) at the time. Hegraduated school in 1982 and served heavy social duty instead ofstudy service after.

His first original band was created in 1978 called Powerfool, buthe played in parallel bands since 81/82 too, like in the schoolband SAS Band , (he had been mainly recruited for arrangements butended up action guitar as well, out of mere boredom, i.e. theoriginal version of How Many Tears had been recorded with thatattach too), or Blast Furnace (along with Markus Grosskopf on bass,later joined by the Powerfool drummer sometime in 83/84. Kai Hansenwas playing a bit of guitar in Powerfool for a few weeks, fillingthe gap of former keyboard players. A few weeks later, they leftand ended Powerfool to reform Kais former band Iron Fist andessentially name it Helloween, Markus returning from Blast Furnace;trying to get the Helloween concept running and started presentingrehearsal assemblage tapes to Noise Records Berlin;…thats whenthe disturbance started…

Michaels first played songs/solos:While My GuitarGently Weeps, Let It Be, I Want You ( Beatles ), Smoke On TheWater/Burn! (Deep Purple) , Backwater/Caroline/Bye Bye Johnny (Status Quo), Whole Lotta Rosie ( AC/DC)…House Of The Rising Sun(yeah wot else), You Really Got Me ( The Kinks/Van Halen ), Hole InThe Sky/Paranoid Black Sabbath, Samba Pa Ti ( Santana ), Barracuda(Heart) Hotel California (Eagles), Freak Out (Chic), Summer NightCity (ABBA), Tattoed Lady (Rory Gallagher) Gonzo/Stranglehold/JustWhat The Doctor Ordered (Ted Nugent)…etc etc.

His favorite bands/ influences:The Beatles, DeepPurple, 60/70ies/teenie bands ( Sweet, Bay City Rollers, Mud,Slade, Rubettes, Hello, Suzi Quatro, T.Rex, Kincade, etc etc )Gigliola Cinquetti, Mothers Finest, Rory Gallagher, Wishbone Ash,Black Sabbath, Alan Parson’s Project, ELO, Wizard, Pink Floyd, VanHalen ( I believe I must have been the first one in Germany whoowned their first record…), KISS, Dio, Def Leppard, Journey,Brian Auger, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Ted Nugent, KRUIZ, Omega,Sex Pistols and div Punk bands, Motorhead, Gary Moore, April Wine,Y&T, Sammy Hagar, Montrose, Johnnie Winter, Doobie Brothers,Allman Bros, Balance, Shadows, UFO, Michael Schenker Group, Boston,Frank Zappa, Rush, Rolling Stones, Demis Roussos and Aphrodite’sChild, YES, Geordie, AC/DC, Uli Jon Roth, Frank Sinatra, Elvis, TheKinks, CCR, TenCC, Jeff Lynne, Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, Mamas AndPapas, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Al DiMeola, Glenn Miller, RandyRhoads, Buddy Holly, Walter Trout, Vanilla Fudge, SAGA, BB King,Loudness, Robert Palmer, The Who, Ten Years After, Chuck Berry, JoeCocker, Manfred Mann’s Earth Band, Santana, Jethro Tull, JudasPriest, Genesis, Peter Gabriel, ABBA, Status Quo, Uriah Heep,Rainbow, Foreigner, Spooky Tooth, Mott The Hoople, David Bowie,Thin Lizzy, Heart, Eagles, Nektar, Focus, Camel, div internationaland german hit or evergreen or classical composers; Simon &Garfunkel, Ennio Morricone, Giorgio Moroder, Burt Bacharach,Beethoven, Bach, Haydn, ….AAAAH who else???

German artists:Udo Lindenberg, Udo Juergens, KatjaEbstein, Klaus Doldingers Passport, Volker Kriegel, Lenny Wolf,Atlantis, Frumpy, Kraftwerk, Nina Hagen, Peter Maffay, Spliff,Supermax, Baccara, Birth Control, Kraan, Wallenstein, Scorpions,Accept, Extrabreit, Hubert Kah, Rio Reiser, Destruction, Pink Cream69, East West Germanic language artists: Renft, Karussell, CesarPeter Glaeser, Karat, Reform.

Just for everyone to know and because it pisses me off each time Iget asked, I did NOT mainly get influenced by Iron Maiden andMetallica. So cut it!

If too many queries see up regarding this biography, I’mthreatening you, I may get it updated!!!

For the past 23 years Michael Weikath was and still is one of thefounding members of Helloween. His devotion to the band and memberslead them to a John Major success over the years with high grosssales and sold out concerts all over the world.

In the meantime, when hes not surfing on the net, hes writtenmaterial new songs for the new Helloween which will be the followuptoKeeper Of The Seven Keys – TheLegacy.