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Biography
		Ulf Krüger was born 03.09.1947 in Uelzen, Lower Saxony, singer / guitarist Ulf Krüger founded skiffle group The Owl City Washboardmen in 1960. Three years later, he joined local beat band The Randalls as a drummer. In 1966 he got his matriculation and went professional with Some Folks for a few months, then he was drawn into the army.

While in the Bundeswehr, he re-joined the Randalls, now called 'William Thornton & The Chicago Sect', second winner of the Star-Club-band contest 67. From 69 until 72 he attended Hamburg Art School ' Staatliche Hochschule für bildende Künste'. It was 1969, when he started 'Leinemann', Stern magazine wrote: 'With a mixture of ragtime, rock and skiffle, 'Leinemann' rings in a new era in the German pop scene'. With this group he toured extensively and recorded lots of singles and more then ten albums including two backing British skiffle veteran Lonnie Donegan.		©K&K, Uelzen Cemetery, 1964

William Thornton & The Chicago Sect, 1965		Both albums recorded with Lonnie Donegan now available as a 2-CD-Set at the price of EUR 24,50 at our online shop. Since 1972 Krüger has worked as a producer / songwriter with about 700 of his songs released on records, some of them big German hits.

Some Folks Trier, Autumn 1966

(c)  K&K Lonnie Donegan & Leinemann, Kieler Schloss, 1972

Olli & Ulf (with Olli Dittrich in the 80's)

Blümchen Gold-Verleihung, 1996

(c) K&K / K.-U. Franz, Neil Landon Five 1996, Hamburg

(c) Uwe Mahlstedt Lonnie Donegan & Ulf Krüger Nov. 2001, CCH Hamburg

(c) H.J. Dibbert With Sonja Krüger & Vince Weber Dec. 2001, Fabrik Hamburg

Gitarren und Bässe seit 1887

Ulf Krüger spielt Höfner Gitarren und exclusiv auf

At the end of 2001 Europa-Verlag published "Beatles Guide Hamburg" written by Ulf Krüger, ISBN 3-302-79175-7, available at the price of EUR 8,90. You can find the "Beatles Guide Hamburg" in our Online-Shop.

(c) T.Brill With Otto Waalkes & Gunther Andernach 2001, Musikhalle Hamburg

(c) W. Klatte/K&K With Abi Wallenstein Dec. 2001, Fabrik Hamburg

(c) Günter Zint Ulf Krüger with the "Quarrymen" 2002 Estrel Beatles Festival, Berlin

(c) Wolfgang Söder / K&K 2002 with Tony Sheridan in Hamburg

In cooperation with the Estrel Hotel in Berlin Ulf Krüger organised the extraordinarily successful "Estrel-Beatles-Festival" in 2002, 2003, and 2005, and 2004 the "Ruhr Beatles Festival" in Essen. Also from 2004 on Ulf Krüger is in charge of the sections music and business of the John Lennon Talent Award of the German insurance company Itzehoer Versicherungen. Together with Uwe Mammimga and Kuno Dreysse Ulf Krüger established the events called "Eine Nacht im Star-Club" (One Night at the Star-Club) in Downtown Bluesclub in Hamburg in 2005. At the HamburgMuseum (former "Museum für hamburgische Geschichte") in collaboration with K&K is running currently the special exhibition "The Hamburg Sound - Beatles, Beat und Große Freiheit" from June, 3rd until November 5th 2006 with a three-day opening festival.  Special guests were: Cynthia Lennon, Astrid Kirchherr, Klaus Voormann,  The Original Quarrymen, Achim Reichel, Kingsize Taylor and the Dominoes, The Rattles and many more. In connection with the exhibition Ulf Krüger and Dr. Ortwin Pelc of the HamburgMuseum relased the book "The Hamburg Sound", and a CD called "The Hamburg Sound" was released by Bear Family Records, producer Ulf Krüger. From left to right: with Ringo Starr & Brian Roylance, with Olivia Harrison, with Albert Lee, with Mike McCartney. All Pictures were taken in 2004.    Ulf Krüger with Kingsize Taylor at the Downtown Bluesclub in November 2004 (c) Knut Hartmann   With his band UK 5 he plays in and around Hamburg from time to time. Detailed Information about Ulf Krügers work as an author you can find here.