Gotthard (band)
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Gotthard is a Swiss
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....

 hard rock
Hard rock
Hard rock is a loosely defined genre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage rock, blues rock and psychedelic rock...

/heavy metal
Heavy metal music
Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...

 band founded in Lugano
Lugano
Lugano is a city of inhabitants in the city proper and a total of over 145,000 people in the agglomeration/city region, in the south of Switzerland, in the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino, which borders Italy...

 by Steve Lee
Steve Lee (Gotthard singer)
Steve Lee was a Swiss musician and vocalist, best known as the vocalist of the band Gotthard.-Biography:In 1979, The first public concert at the Aula Magna of Lugano-Trevano with the band named Cromo Steve Lee (August 5, 1963 – October 5, 2010) was a Swiss musician and vocalist, best known as the...

 and Leo Leoni. Their last eleven albums have all reached number 1 in the Swiss album charts, making them one of the most successful Swiss acts ever.
With 2 million albums sold, they managed to get multi-platinum awards in different parts of the world. The band takes its name from the Saint-Gotthard Massif
Saint-Gotthard Massif
The Saint-Gotthard Massif is a mountain range in the Alps in Switzerland, located at the border of four cantons: Valais, Ticino, Uri and Graubünden. The Gotthard Pass is named after it....

.

Gotthard recently toured with Whitesnake
Whitesnake
Whitesnake are an English rock band, founded in 1978 by David Coverdale after his departure from his previous band, Deep Purple. The band's early material has been compared by critics to Deep Purple, but by the mid 1980s they had moved to a more commercial hard rock style...

 and played at Arrow Rock Festival in Holland.

Singer Steve Lee
Steve Lee (Gotthard singer)
Steve Lee was a Swiss musician and vocalist, best known as the vocalist of the band Gotthard.-Biography:In 1979, The first public concert at the Aula Magna of Lugano-Trevano with the band named Cromo Steve Lee (August 5, 1963 – October 5, 2010) was a Swiss musician and vocalist, best known as the...

 died in a motorcycle accident on October 5, 2010.

On November 11, 2011, Gotthard announced a new singer, Nic Maeder, through their official Facebook page and their website with their new song "Remember It's Me", downloadable for free.

Discography

Studio albums

  • Gotthard
    Gotthard (album)
    Gotthard is the debut studio album released by the hard rock band Gotthard.-Track listing:All songs written by Steve Lee/Leo Leoni except where noted.# "Standing In the Light" – 3:54# "Downtown" – 3:06...

     (1992)
  • Dial Hard
    Dial Hard
    Dial Hard is the second studio album released by the hard rock band Gotthard.-Track listing:All songs written by Steve Lee/Leo Leoni/Chris von Rohr except where noted.# "Higher" – 4:32# "Mountain Mama" – 3:52# "Here Comes the Heat" – 3:01...

     (1994)
  • G.
    G. (album)
    G. is the third studio album released by the hard rock band Gotthard.-Track listing:All songs written by Steve Lee/Leo Leoni/Chris von Rohr except where noted.# "Sister Moon" – 3:55# "Make My Day" – 3:45# "Mighty Quinn" – 3:15...

     (1996)
  • Open
    Open (Gotthard album)
    Open is the fourth studio album released by the hard rock band Gotthard.-Track listing:All songs written by Steve Lee/Leo Leoni/Chris von Rohr except where noted.# "Free and Alive" – 4:23# "Vision" – 3:57...

     (1999)
  • Homerun
    Homerun (Gotthard album)
    Homerun is the fifth studio album released by the hard rock band Gotthard.-Track listing:# "Wun Ga-Li" – 0:28# "Everything Can Change" – 4:02# "Take It Easy" – 3:41# "Light in Your Eyes" – 3:56# "Heaven" – 4:33# "Lonely People" – 3:24...

     (2001)
  • Human Zoo
    Human Zoo (album)
    Human Zoo is the sixth studio album released by the hard rock band Gotthard.-Track listing:All songs written by Steve Lee/Leo Leoni/Marc Tanner except where noted.# "Human Zoo" – 3:30# "What I Like" – 4:31...

     (2003)
  • Lipservice
    Lipservice (album)
    Lipservice is the seventh studio album released by the hard rock band Gotthard.-Track listing:# "All We Are" - 3:40# "Dream On" - 3:26# "Lift U Up" - 3:00# "Everything I Want" - 4:34# "Cupid's Arrow" - 3:48# "I Wonder" - 4:25# "I'm Alive" - 3:01...

     (2005)
  • Domino Effect (2007)
  • Need to Believe
    Need to Believe (album)
    Need To Believe is the ninth studio album released by the hard rock band Gotthard. It was released on 4 September 2009. It is the last album with singer Steve Lee before his death....

     (2009)

Live albums

  • The Hamburg Tapes
    The Hamburg Tapes
    The Hamburg Tapes is a live album released by the hard rock band Gotthard. The album was recorded April 22nd, 1996 at the Hamburg Markthalle...

     (1996)
  • D frosted
    D frosted
    D frosted is the second live album released by the hard rock band Gotthard.-Track listing:All songs written by Steve Lee/Leo Leoni/Chris von Rohr except where noted.# "Sister Moon" – 4:36# "Out On My Own" – 5:10...

     (1997)
  • Made In Switzerland - Live In Zürich (2006)
  • Homegrown - Live in Lugano (2011)

Compilation albums

  • One Life One Soul - Best of Ballads
    One Life One Soul
    One Life One Soul, additionally subtitled Best Of Ballads, is the first compilation album released by the hard rock band Gotthard. As the title indicates, the album consists only of ballads from Gotthard's studio albums from the albums Gotthard to Homerun, along with new songs and covers.-Track...

     (2002)
  • One Team One Spirit - The Very Best
    One Team One Spirit
    One Team One Spirit is the second compilation album released by the hard rock band Gotthard. The album is a double disc compilation. The first disc is of rock songs, the second, of ballads...

     (2004)
  • Metallic Emotions (CD and DVD)- featuring the song "the call" and the video "lift 'U' up" Nuclear Blast (2007)
  • Heaven - Best of Ballads Part 2 (2010)

Singles and EPs

  • 1992: All I Care For
  • 1992: Hush
  • 1992: Firedance
  • 1993: Mountain Mama
  • 1994: Travellin' Man
  • 1994: I'm On My Way
  • 1995: Father Is That Enough
  • 1996: One Life One Soul
  • 1996: He Ain't Heavy He's My Brother
  • 1997: Fight For Your Life
  • 1997: One Life One Soul (Live)
  • 1997: Love Soul Matter
  • 1997: Someday
  • 1998: Let It Rain
  • 1999: Merry X-Mas
  • 1999: Blackberry Way
  • 1999: You
  • 2000: Heaven
  • 2000: Homerun
  • 2003: What I Like
  • 2003: Janie's Not Alone
  • 2003: Have A Little Faith
  • 2004: Fire and Ice
  • 2004: One Team One Spirit
  • 2005: Lift U Up
  • 2005: Anytime, Anywhere
  • 2005: Nothing Left at All
  • 2005: Round And Round
  • 2007: The Call
  • 2007: Come Alive
  • 2009: Need To Believe
  • 2011: Remember its me (first song with Nic Maeder as singer)

Videos and DVDs

  • 2002: More Than Live (DVD)
  • 2006: Made In Switzerland
    Made In Switzerland (Live Album)
    Made In Switzerland is a live video and album release by Gotthard. It was released worldwide in 2006 as a combined DVD and CD package.The concert was filmed and recorded at the Hallenstadion in Zürich, Switzerland on December 8th, 2005 as part of the bands Lipservice tour.-DVD:# "All We Are"#...

     (DVD+CD)
  • 2008: The movie Postal
    Postal (film)
    Postal is a 2007 Canadian-American-German black comedy action film co-written and directed by Uwe Boll.Like the majority of Boll's previous films, Postal is a film adaptation of a video game, in this case, Postal, though this film draws more heavily from that video game's sequel, Postal 2.-Plot:The...

     featured "Come Alive".

Members

  • Leo Leoni - guitar
    Guitar
    The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

  • Freddy Scherer - guitars
  • Marc Lynn - bass guitar
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

  • Hena Habegger - drums
    Drum kit
    A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....

  • Nic Maeder - vocals
    Singing
    Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...



Past members:
  • Mandy Meyer
    Mandy Meyer
    Armand Mandy Meyer is a Swiss guitar player best known for being a member of the hard rock band Gotthard, the progressive rock band Asia and the heavy metal band Krokus. Meyer has also worked with Cobra, Stealin' Horses and Katmandu. He was born August 29, 1960 in the town of Balcarres,...

     - guitars
  • Steve Lee
    Steve Lee (Gotthard singer)
    Steve Lee was a Swiss musician and vocalist, best known as the vocalist of the band Gotthard.-Biography:In 1979, The first public concert at the Aula Magna of Lugano-Trevano with the band named Cromo Steve Lee (August 5, 1963 – October 5, 2010) was a Swiss musician and vocalist, best known as the...

     - vocals
    Singing
    Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...

     (deceased, 1963-2010)

Influences

Influences include Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin were an English rock band, active in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s. Formed in 1968, they consisted of guitarist Jimmy Page, singer Robert Plant, bassist/keyboardist John Paul Jones, and drummer John Bonham...

, AC/DC
AC/DC
AC/DC are an Australian rock band, formed in 1973 by brothers Malcolm and Angus Young. Commonly classified as hard rock, they are considered pioneers of heavy metal, though they themselves have always classified their music as simply "rock and roll"...

, Whitesnake
Whitesnake
Whitesnake are an English rock band, founded in 1978 by David Coverdale after his departure from his previous band, Deep Purple. The band's early material has been compared by critics to Deep Purple, but by the mid 1980s they had moved to a more commercial hard rock style...

, Deep Purple
Deep Purple
Deep Purple are an English rock band formed in Hertford in 1968. Along with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, they are considered to be among the pioneers of heavy metal and modern hard rock, although some band members believe that their music cannot be categorised as belonging to any one genre...

, Bon Jovi
Bon Jovi
Bon Jovi is an American rock band from Sayreville, New Jersey. Formed in 1983, Bon Jovi consists of lead singer and namesake Jon Bon Jovi , guitarist Richie Sambora, keyboardist David Bryan, drummer Tico Torres, as well as current bassist Hugh McDonald...

, Van Halen
Van Halen
Van Halen is an American hard rock band formed in Pasadena, California, in 1972. The band has enjoyed success since the release of its debut album, Van Halen, . As of 2007 Van Halen has sold 80 million albums worldwide and has had the most #1 hits on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart...

 and Aerosmith
Aerosmith
Aerosmith is an American rock band, sometimes referred to as "The Bad Boys from Boston" and "America's Greatest Rock and Roll Band". Their style, which is rooted in blues-based hard rock, has come to also incorporate elements of pop, heavy metal, and rhythm and blues, and has inspired many...

. Singer Steve Lee was especially fond of Whitesnake.

Gotthard also performed "Immigrant Song
Immigrant Song
"Immigrant Song" is a song by the English rock band Led Zeppelin. It was released as a single from their third album, Led Zeppelin III, in 1970.-Overview:...

" (originally by Led Zeppelin) live and it featured exclusively on a CD by Classic Rock
Classic Rock (magazine)
Classic Rock is a British magazine dedicated to the radio format of classic rock, published by Future Publishing, who are also responsible for its "sister" publication Metal Hammer. Although firmly focusing on key bands from the 1960s through early 1990s, it also includes articles and reviews of...

 (a long running monthly UK rock magazine). "Hush" was also performed live and can be found on the Made In Switzerland album.

They have also covered songs from Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...

, The Hollies
The Hollies
The Hollies are an English pop and rock group, formed in Manchester in the early 1960s, though most of the band members are from throughout East Lancashire. Known for their distinctive vocal harmony style, they became one of the leading British groups of the 1960s and 1970s...

, Manfred Mann
Manfred Mann
Manfred Mann was a British beat, rhythm and blues and pop band of the 1960s, named after their South African keyboardist, Manfred Mann, who later led the successful 1970s group Manfred Mann's Earth Band...

 and The Move
The Move
The Move, from Birmingham, England, were one of the leading British rock bands of the 1960s. They scored nine Top 20 UK singles in five years, but were among the most popular British bands not to find any success in the United States....

.

In 2008, Gotthard was supporting act for one of their favourite bands Deep Purple
Deep Purple
Deep Purple are an English rock band formed in Hertford in 1968. Along with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, they are considered to be among the pioneers of heavy metal and modern hard rock, although some band members believe that their music cannot be categorised as belonging to any one genre...

, during Deep Purple's German Tour. They also played at the Magic Circle Music Festival
Magic Circle Music
- History :Magic Circle Music was founded by Manowar bassist Joey DeMaio in 2005 named after Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen by which DeMaio is highly inspired. The purpose of the label is to give the band complete creative control of their operation...

  alongside bands such as Manowar, Alice Cooper
Alice Cooper
Alice Cooper is an American rock singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans more than four decades...

, Doro
Doro (musician)
Dorothee Pesch , popularly known as Doro Pesch or Doro, is a female rock vocalist, formerly of the German heavy metal band Warlock ....

 and W.A.S.P. in Bad Arolsen
Bad Arolsen
Bad Arolsen is a small town in northern Hesse, Germany, in Waldeck-Frankenberg district. From 1655 until 1918 it served as the residence town of the Princes of Waldeck-Pyrmont and then until 1929 as the capital of the Waldeck Free State...

, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

.

Gotthard also opened up for US rock band Bon Jovi in Switzerland, Germany and Italy and for Canadian rock act Bryan Adams.

Death of Steve Lee

On Oct. 5th 2010, Steve Lee died in a crash while driving his motorbike in the United States.

"The world has lost one of its greatest rock singers: GOTTHARD frontman Steve Lee was killed accidentally during a motorcycle trip in the USA on Interstate 15 between Mesquite and Las Vegas and died at the scene.

"The GOTTHARD singer had flown to the U.S. with some biker friends just this weekend to fulfill a long-cherished dream for which he'd never had the time due to his heavy touring schedule for many years. It was to be two weeks through the States on a Harley-Davidson.

"The 21 Swiss bikers started their journey on Sunday on a total of 12 motorcycles. On Tuesday, October 5, about 50 miles from Las Vegas, the group had stopped at the roadside to put on their rain gear as it had started to rain. On the slippery road, the trailer of a passing truck began to skid. The driver attempted evasive action but his trailer clipped five of the motorcycles parked at the roadside; one of them hit Steve Lee. Rescue services attempted resuscitation but efforts were stopped after 20 minutes. At 16:13 local time, Steve Lee was pronounced dead.

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