Chris Norman

Chris Norman was born on October 25, 1950 in Redcar, in the county of Yorkshire, and is a British singer-songwriter.

Norman first appeared on the musical map together with his band Smokie in the mid-1970s. Among the band's best-known tracks is undoubtedly the single Living Next Door to Alice. Norman celebrated his first major commercial success in Germany with the song Stumblin' In, recorded in 1978 with Suzi Quatro; however, he achieved this without his band Smokie. Together with Pete Spencer, Norman produced songs for other artists at the end of the 70s. These included the 1979 song Head over Heels in Love by Kevin Keegan, which reached number 31 in the British and number ten in the German singles charts. In addition, during this period Norman worked with Abba member Agnetha Fältskog on her solo album.

His first major solo success came in 1986 with the song "Midnight Lady, just you and me, Midnight Lady, eternally". The song, which Norman sang in the 1986 Schimanski crime scene episode "Der Tausch," hit like a bomb. For weeks, the song was at the top of the German singles charts and gave the British singer and guitarist his biggest solo success to date.