Pink Cream 69 is a German 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...

 band founded in 1987 in Karlsruhe

Karlsruhe

The City of Karlsruhe is a city in the southwest of Germany, in the state of Baden-Württemberg, located near the French-German border.Karlsruhe was founded in 1715 as Karlsruhe Palace, when Germany was a series of principalities and city states...

, Germany

Germany

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 by Andi Deris

Andi Deris

Andreas "Andi" Deris is the vocalist and the main songwriter for power metal band Helloween, and co-founder and former lead singer of German melodic metal band Pink Cream 69...

, Dennis Ward, Kosta Zafiriou and Alfred Koffler. The band gained their first contract by winning music magazine Metal Hammer

Metal Hammer

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's newcomer competition in Ludwigsburg

Ludwigsburg

Ludwigsburg is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, about north of Stuttgart city centre, near the river Neckar. It is the largest and primary city of the Ludwigsburg urban district with about 87,000 inhabitants...

 one year after forming. In 1994, Andi Deris

Andi Deris

Andreas "Andi" Deris is the vocalist and the main songwriter for power metal band Helloween, and co-founder and former lead singer of German melodic metal band Pink Cream 69...

 left the band to join German power metal

Power metal

Power metal is a style of heavy metal combining characteristics of traditional metal with speed metal, often within symphonic context. The term refers to two different but related styles: the first pioneered and largely practiced in North America with a harder sound similar to speed metal, and a...

 band Helloween

Helloween

Helloween is a German power metal band founded in the mid 1980s by members of Iron Fist and Powerfool. The band was a pioneering force in the European Power Metal movement and their second and third studio albums, Keeper of the Seven Keys, Pt...

. He was replaced by British singer David Readman

David Readman

David Readman is an English singer. Since 1994, he has been with the German-based band Pink Cream 69. He joined the French progressive metal band Adagio in 2000, but left the band in 2004...

. The band, often referred to as The Pinkies, became a five-piece in 2003, when Uwe Reitenauer was hired to support guitar player

Guitar Player

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 Alfred Koffler, who suffered from neuropathy.

Discography

• 1989: Pink Cream 69
  Pink Cream 69 (album)
  Pink Cream 69 was the first full-length album from Pink Cream 69. It was released in 1989.-Track listing:All tracks by Andi Deris, except as indicated.# "Take Those Tears" - 4:26# "Sugar for Love" - 4:16# "Rolling Down a Thunder" - 3:41...
  
  
• 1991: One Size Fits All
  One Size Fits All (Pink Cream 69 album)
  One Size Fits All was Pink Cream 69's second album, released in 1991.When Andi Deris joined Helloween, he played the song "Where the Eagle Learns to Fly" on many occasions.-Track listing:# "Livin' My Life for You" - 4:00...
  
  
• 1993: Games People Play
  Games People Play (Pink Cream 69 album)
  Games People Play is the third studio album by Pink Cream 69. It was the final album with Andi Deris on vocals.-Track listing:All songs written by Pink Cream 69.#"Face in the Mirror" - 4:47#"Way Down" - 5:11#"Keep Your Eye on the Twisted" - 3:29...
  
  
• 1995: Change
  Change (Pink Cream 69 album)
  Change is the fourth album by German hard rock group Pink Cream 69. It was the first album with current singer David Readman.- Track listing :All songs written by Pink Cream 69 except where noted.# "Funny Words" – 4:37# "Light of Day" – 3:36...
  
  
• 1997: Food for Thought
• 1998: Electrified
• 2000: Sonic Dynamite
  Sonic Dynamite
  Sonic Dynamite is the seventh album by German band Pink Cream 69.-Track listing:All songs written by Alfred Koffler and David Readman# "Passage to Hope" - 1:23# "Seas of Madness" - 5:14# "Followed by the Moon" - 4:37# "Sonic Dynamite" - 3:08...
  
  
• 2000: Mixery (EP)
• 2001: Endangered
  Endangered (album)
  -Track listing:All songs written by Alfred Koffler and David Readman except where noted.# "Intro" – 1:06# "Shout!" – 3:49# "Promised Land" – 5:08# "Trust the Wise Man" – 4:08# "Don't Need Your Touch" – 4:24# "He Took the World" – 5:35# "Enslaved" – 4:07...
  
  
• 2003: Live
• 2004: Thunderdome
  Thunderdome (album)
  -Track listing:All songs by Koffler, Readman and Ward, exceps as noted.# "The Last Stance" – 0:56# "Thunderdome" – 4:25# "Gods Come Together" – 4:46# "Carnaby Road" – 4:49# "Here I Am" – 4:38# "That Was Yesterday" – 4:44# "Shelter" – 4:48...
  
  
• 2007: In10sity
  In10sity
  In10sity is the tenth studio album by Pink Cream 69. It is the first album to feature additional guitarist Uwe Reitenauer and also celebrates the bands 20th year making music.-Track listing:All songs by D. Koffler and D. Ward, except where noted...
  
  
• 2009: Live in Karlsruhe

External links

• Russian website of Pink Cream 69