European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 02, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday May 2, 1978 the stars and stripes Page 19 disco madness in alien Buseck Maccrae returns by Dan Warfield is entertainment editor he Village of alien Buseck a place name of obscure meaning which can be loosely but profitably translated As the old bus Stop is vacant and eerie at night with shutters drawn tight like a movie set where they forgot to turn off the Light before going Home. It took half an hour of cruising its dead streets to find the Atlantis disco and Georg Mccrae. Mccrae is one of the original members of the to re cords team that helped get the current disco Boom moving with the Miami sound. His version of a tone called Rock your baby penned by . Casey of . And the Sunshine band was a bit disco single that sold 15 million copies around the world in 1974. He has had several respectable hits since then though nothing on the scale of the first one. The Atlantis disco is a converted warehouse with Palm tree painted Over the door and marginal table serv ice. Its manager who does t favor americans has posted a Brace of off limits signs under the Palm had some trouble once he said. But tonight there was an exception to his policy. It was of for american tonight he said. Tonight it was also nine Marks 4.50 to get in the door. Mccrae did two sets accompanied by a tape record Erin lieu of band but the Lack of live backup did t seem to disturb the mostly student age crowd which pressed up close to the stage while he ran through his past hits and material from his new album and mobbed him for Auto graphs afterwards. Backstage Between sets As we sat Down to do a Quick interview Kurt the bouncer popped in. Kurt of hefty build and baby face looking about 20,could pass for a third string linebacker from Tampa Bay except that he Only Speaks German. He politely demanded an autograph on his Beefy forearm. After be got it be tried to utter his thanks but was so overwhelmed bythe Honor that he gave up and left the room speechless and agog. Born oct. 19,1944, in West Palm Beach fla., and Nowa citizen of the Miami suburb of Hialeah Mccrae laughed off the idea that you have to be working in new York or . To be in the big leagues of american music. Florida s not a retirement trip like people think it is he assured me. Everybody winds up in Florida sooner or began his singing career when he was a Sailor moonlighting in military clubs in the Pacific. He spent four years in the Navy most of it in the Phillip Ines and Japan with a Vrc-50 Squadron which he described As a tactical support unit. Shortly after picking up his Dis charge 10 years ago he signed up with to. But though he was working hard at making music hews keeping his options open. I took 2 years of Junior College after i got out of the Navy i studied criminal Justice said the policeman s son who thought seriously for j while about following his father s profession if the music thing did t work out. About that time he also courted and married a girl named Gwen he first became known As half of an act billed As George and Gwen Mccrae. The duo ended in divorce two years ago. Remarried last year Mccrae is heading Back to the states next week to Deal with some family business my wife is expecting any Day now. I want to be in time for it will Only be a two week break from his continuing world tour which be expects will bring him Back to Europe in late May to play clubs in England hoi lam1 and Spain. This time hell bring his own band with him at the moment i have four pieces a Basic rhythm Section. By the time i come Back i la have six to eight Australia Brazil Nigeria and South Africa Are also on the tour Africa i have a lot of friends in South Africa. I Don t want to say much about it though. I Don t want Roget into politics. I leave that to the Mccrae had t seen Many americans in his tour of 30german discos and there were Only a few at the Atlantis last week even though alien Buseck is just outside Gies sen in an area where there Are a lot of . Troops. He said he thought part of the problem is that there Are too Many Barracks rats. A lot of gis spend three years in Germany but they never see Germany. They stay i their own Little i pointed out to him that the Atlantis disco usually won t let them in the door and told him what the manager had said about trouble with the troops. He nodded knowingly remembering his own Days in uniform. To lbs Mccrae Florida s not a retirement Well it Only takes one person to reflect on the . Military. I think when a Soldier goes out he should be the ambassador of he laughed wryly our country needs Bournemouth victorian Garden spot on the sea Queen Victoria recommended its salubrious fairs Disraeli vacationed there. Robert Louis Ste. Jeson wrote kidnapped and or. Jerky to and or. Hyde Ina cottage in one of its Little valleys and the a nce of Wales stashed away Nis mis a j j l. Tress. Lily Langtry nearby. Conducted by that s some of the romantic j King Cruger history of a fashionable water Emual writer in8 place caused Imen travel Amer Mould Bruin s South coast. It s a victorian treasure House of nostalgia Little changed by Mellow Seaside resort set among a million Pine Beaulieu Abbey in the new Forest. Trees it s one of the most sophisticated places in Brit into spend a few Days. Many of its hotels maintain a genteel victorian refinement which includes afternoon Tea to Theo Ompah oomph of brass bands and there Are still two victorian piers the longest of which will be 100 Yea sold this year. There Are 1,820 acres of Parks and gardens. Bournemouth ought to be a place of pilgrimage for the women s liberation movement. Poet Percy Shelley s wife and her Mother and father Are buried there. Mar Shelley who wrote Frankenstein and her Mother Mary Wollstonecraft were among the world s first Mother always refused to marry philosopher Wil Liam Godwin who was Mary Shelley s father and to the end maintained her own name and identity. All three Are buried in the graveyard of St. Peter s Church. Besides being a place Worth visiting la its own right Bournemouth is Ideal As a touring Center for Dorset and Hampshire two of the most historic and Beautiful counties in Britain. There is no Lack of hotel space in Bournemouth since there Are 40,000 hotel Beds More than in any British City but London. All around the City Are some of the most Beautiful an historic parts of England. Fifteen Miles to the East is Beaulieu Abbey with the National motor museum containing one of the finest collections of cars in the world. Part of the same estate Isth 18th-Century Seaside town of Buckler s hard. Lord Nelson s Fleet was built there of Oak harvested from the ancient new to the West is Hardy hardly a town i Dorset fails to appear in one of Thomas Hardy s Wessex novels. Athe Hampton House which appears in his novellas Athel has a set of armoured ghosts who sometimes engage in noisy Rockbourne is Miles North is Britain s largest roman Villa with 70 rooms and several mosaic floors. Itis still being unearthed. Nearby is Braemore a splendid elizabethan Bouse built like Many houses in that Era inthe shape of of a capital e for it is filled with antique dutch furniture and paintings and four enor Mous four poster Beds. The Countryside has scores of Lovely old inns like the George on Fordingbridge once a haunt of smugglers. Thirty Miles to the North is Salisbury with its glorious Cathedral Wilton House with its double cube room de signed by Inigo Jones and nearby stonehenge. There s a bit of romantic interest in Bournemouth he was Prince of Wales Edward Vii kept his Long time girl Friend Lily Langtry in a House in Bourne Mouth which is still there. Only it is now a hotel the Manor Heath. The staff there can show you the heart shecut on a window with her Diamond and the peephole the Royal Lover would look through to decide whether the coast was Clear. The pair she was a famous music Hall Star had a love affair which lasted 10 years. 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