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It is set once again in Berlin and contrasts the personal, political and social changes between 1980 and 2020. The internet and social media have radically affected people’s freedoms and manipulability and characters mentioned in the 1980s songs are brought forward 40 years in their lives to illustrate some of these changes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe basics of this new album were recorded by founding member \/ frontman John Watts in the famous Hansa Studios in Berlin but the pandemic put just about everything on pause. 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They also toured the US and Canada and were on the bill with Bob Marley on his last festival tour of Europe. Band main man John Watts has released 26 albums and played around 4,000 concerts so far.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFischer-Z continue to release brand new music and tour all over the world and celebrate their 50th anniversary in 2026. The celebrations begin with this expanded 3CD deluxe digipak which collects their first three albums;\u003cem\u003e World Salad\u003c\/em\u003e (1979), \u003cem\u003eGoing Deaf For A Living \u003c\/em\u003e(1980) and \u003cem\u003eRed Skies Over Paradise\u003c\/em\u003e (1981), originally released on United Artists and Liberty. 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