The country has fallen into black at the tragedy: the 38 -year -old Hungarian musician found it in the bathtub

Has been formed for a long time Baron von Latzin his life. Baron von Latzin. Because he was a noble family who was born in America, perhaps a member of The Who or Creedence Clearwater Revival, maybe the protagonist of a Jack Kerouac novel or a muse of a Gregory Corso poem. But Norbert Latzin He was born here. In this strange world…

The newspaper museum began in commemoration, as it was 40 years ago in December there is no one between us The wonderful musician.

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Anyone who has sung in a good loud, in an exacerbated mood, maybe a little spicy, that: « Come back wanderer, bring back the sweet taste of summer … » or jumped through and even rampant, this song: « I’ve never traveled on the ghost rail, I’ve never seen the big dragon … » Well, you need to know exactly who Norbert Latzin was. Because these are his numbers. Bergendy’s timeless hits.

But the story started earlier. Much earlier. Latzin of noble descent was born on May 16, 1946 in Budapest. He was a musical kid, was admitted to the Academy of Music at the age of 12 and They said, « Wonderland. »

He studied where many groupmates put his life on classical music. He was out of there. Because he was more attracted to Beat and intoxication. He met István Bergendy as a child, and they were 14 when they became friends. And what a special talent was Latzin was perfectly proven by a story told by Bergendy. Latzin watched the cinema in the cinema « Cherbourg’s Umbrellas, and in the evening somewhere in a company, sitting on a piano, played it out of the head, he perfectly returned the movie. Of course he was discovered, so in 1963 he was a member of the Metro band, though the legendary band was only playing American and English hits at that time. His home career lasted only one year when he decided to dissuade. He thought this suffocating, iron curtain atmosphere and hopeless vision were not his world.

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Norbert Latzin Photo: Fortepan / József Hunyady

The escape was perfectly succeeded and did not stop to the Netherlands

He lived abroad for five years, while playing music, accompanied by a relatively anonymous singer with her band, and turned around in almost every country in Western Europe. Then at the age of 23 he said: « Sufficient about it, I want to be among the Hungarians … »

So he came home. Was allowed. Of course, the state security services « welcomed » their passport immediately and kept watching and writing reports, which then survived among the historical archives. But he couldn’t break him. Because the music, as if it were just getting on the lap, carrying it and carrying it with it to the higher peaks.

Norbert Latzin joined the Bergendy band in 1969 and from then on the gold pages of the band’s history were written. True, I still missed a good -sounding rock singer. István Bergendy and Norbert Latzin met and went to the bar of the Baross Square hotel late at night. They did not start to play or stare at the girls, but were curious about a singer.

They were recommended to them the young man, who was said to have a special voice and tolerably bass. The young man was called Ferenc Demjén.

That night, Rose convinced her later musicians and came with her Csaba Debreczeni, behind the drums and came together one of the most popular Hungarian bands of all timethe.

In the early seventies, Bergendy was a larger number than Omega, Elijah, or Metro. True, I needed some luck for this popularity, as the editors were very accountable on the 1970 New Year’s Eve TV show. The much-awaited Géza Hofi-Cabaret was three minutes shorter. So he was forced-in-the-incomparable, like a stuffing, Bergendy’s « Always the same ». It was a huge success. At that time, the band performed and believed in the E-Klub, sometimes at the Ganz Mávag House of Culture, or not (who were there and could be witnessed…), thousands remained out and waited for the miracle to get in.

Then came the unexpected turn: Norbert Latzin left the band in 1975, from one moment to another. According to one of the anecdotes, because he was allegedly dropped off the floor once and offended to that blood.

Bárhogy is, bármiért is történt: az élete fordulópontját jelentette mindez.

Because he became a band called Marionett Rt and they dropped a album, but that didn’t even approach Bergendy’s popularity. Later he wrote songs for Victoria Eszensi, with whom he lived at that time. And how fertile it was, and how much it was working on, it indicates that it has written music for several films, such as the Kangaroo, known as an incredibly popular cult film.

But he couldn’t find his place anymore. Began to drink, not too little

He left the country again and tried his luck in the Federal Republic. They were waiting there, and they were told, Come on, we introduce us to Udo Jürgens. Well udo is a kind of He was a hit manufacturerincredibly popular, created a new genre, sung in German in German. But Norbert Latzin was successful as a rock musician, so he left the singer in no time, saying: « It’s terrible what this is doing under the title Pali Music … »

But the real horror was still to come. It was already associated with his name. The date is 1984 (forty years…), the venue is Cologne. And not some elegant disc studio, but a homeless shelter. Got this here in the nobleHungarian musician living and creating as a special talent.

Found in the bathroom of the homeless shelter in the bathtub, inanimate. He committed suicide and had been dead for five days. At the age of 38 … After his death, Ferenc Demjén said so sadly: Norbert could not stand this world… Unfortunately, not really…

Rest in peace, Norbert Latzin!

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