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=DISCLAIMER= None of the video or audio content in this upload is owned by me. It is the joint property of Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF) and 3sat. This is merely a reupload of relevant selected clips. =SOURCES AND LINKS= Footage from 0:00 - 1:58 and 2:26 - 4:05 taken from “Aktionist und Musiker Dieter Meier“ Official upload: Footage from 1:58 - 2:26 taken from “Yello: ElectroPop made in Switzerland“ Unofficial upload: =ABOUT= This video contains footage of the first ever live performance of the Swiss electronic music band Yello on the 18th of September 1978 at the Cinema Forum in Zürich. The song being performed, “Dead Cat“, is 15 minutes long and was never recorded or released by Yello after this live debut. The only existing footage, filmed for television broadcast, remains in the vaults and only 4 minutes of it publicly circulate on the internet at the moment. This video brings together this footage. If you have any leads on where more footage of Dead Cat can be found (or any information on rare Yello stuff in general), please get in contact at baconandemail1@. Your help is greatly appreciated! =BACKGROUND INFO= (Information provided from “The YELLO Chronicles: The Early Years Part I: 1976-1979“ by Jonas Warstad; a highly recommended resource for fans of Yello) After meeting Carlos Peron and Boris Blank (who initially recorded music together as the duo Transonic) for the first time and recording a rough demo for the song “I.T. Splash“ together on Sept. 9th 1978, local artist and punk singer Dieter Meier invited them along to perform at the Thema Selection fashion show as one of several variety acts. Under the tentative name of Yello, the duo of Boris and Carlos played synthesizer parts over a pre-recorded backing track in the stage's orchestra pit (due to Boris' stage fright at the time, he preferred to not be seen) while Dieter improvised lyrics about a man's existential epiphany triggered upon seeing a dead cat in the streets of New York. This performance drew a very uncertain response from the audience; a news report at the time noted that the audience heckled and shouted profanities, Dieter himself remembered that they were shocked yet amazed by the originality happening on stage, Boris commented that they received a healthy round of applause at the end and Carlos felt that it was Dieter himself, not the music, that led to the alleged negative reaction. (Who was correct? That's for you, the listener, to decide!) Whichever way, the trio were euphoric after what they tagged as a successful concert and continued to work together leading up to the final release of “I.T. Splash“ as a single the following year. The rest, as they say, is history...
