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"I’m a romantic fool"
Sweet singer Pete Lincoln played a solo concert at the Dolce – and also told jokes

The Dolce theatre is only half full, but nevertheless the waiting guests are even more excited: To see Pete Lincoln, singer of the band Sweet, who performs on his own this time. “I’ve never seen him solo”, says Dirk Menzel who came all the way from Offenbach to this concert. With Sweet he saw him several times, as he likes the band since his childhood days with their hits like ‘Ballroom Blitz’, Teenage Rampage’ and ‘Blockbuster’. The lights go out, Lincoln starts with the cover song ‘Walking In Memphis’ by Marc Cohn and Cher as well as ‘Boys Of Summer’ by Don Henley, before presenting an own song: ‘All At Sea’, a love song, of which he performs several more. He can’t say why. It’s left to the imagination of the listeners who simply enjoy the beautiful ballads. “If you allow it, I’ll sing some more of those, I’m a romantic fool – after that I’ll do some of the crazier stuff”, he announces.
The stage is sparsely set, with a bar table and loudspeakers for Lincoln’s e-guitar, the only instrument that accompanies his strong, melodic voice. Well-behaved and a bit formal, the audience sits in the plush seats at the beginning. But without much trouble, Lincoln gets them all to sing along. He also tells jokes, not without cracking himself. One about Helmut, for example, who drives around in his Porsche and is overtaken by a three-legged chicken. As fast as he can he follows the animal to a farm. As the farmer explains, he breeds the extraordinary poultry, as he needs three legs for his family: himself, his wife and his son. He doesn’t know how they taste though. “We can’t catch them.”
Before Sweet, Lincoln was an active member of Sailor. Their legendary hits ‘A Glass Of Champagne’ and ‘Girls Girls Girls’ also got sung before he came to the promised “crazier stuff”, a medley of ‘Poker Face’, ‘Hey Joe’ and ‘Fox On The Run’. The audience is taken with it. “Super concert!” This musician makes great music, knows his job very well and the audience is great too”, says listener Stephan Rosenbecker from Steinfurth during the break. Lincoln is also enthusiastic, as promoter Wolfgang Langsdorf explains before the beginning of the second half. “He just loves having such an audience. People, you’re really great”. Having been complimented like this, the guests do their best when Lincoln asks what he should sing next. Songs of Bruno Mars, Billy Joel and even Andrea Berg are the suggestions that he receives. “I’m not a real juke-box”, he smiles, and instead he delivers songs of Sting, Cliff Richard and Queen. Impressive how he handles the high bits of ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’, being asked for it.
Sweet hits like ‘Poppa Joe’ and Co-Co’ aren’t missing - everybody especially wants to hear those on an evening like this. The audience thanks him with standing ovations for a successful concerts. Lincoln returns with favour with a long encore: ‘Wig Wam Bam’, ‘Little Willy’ and ‘Hot Love’ by T-Rex. The last song is ‘Love Is Like Oxygen’ – what seems appropriate for a “romantic fool”.