His voice fills the room, you only notice his fragility at second glance. Pop singer Tony Marshall is bursting with joy and happiness. He lets his fans be part of it with a small gallery.
Gaggenau – He enters the room with a roaring laugh, leaning one hand on his crutch and pointing with the other to all the personal treasures around him.
The pop singer Tony Marshall (83) opened his own small gallery in Gaggenau near Rastatt on Tuesday – and happiness pervades his pores.
“I’ve dragged everything there that is dear to me,” he says. With the gallery in a log cabin that belongs to the inn of his old friend Frank Füchtenschnieder, he has fulfilled a dream in his own words: “It is a tribute to my colleagues, many of whom are no longer alive. But I should also be remembered! “
The log cabin is replete with memories of an unprecedented hit career and has been on stage for more than six decades. Hundreds of photos, trophies, medals, gold records and curiosities can be seen: For example, a gold soccer shoe that Uwe Seeler once honored him on his 70th birthday.
Pictures show him with hits like Karel Gott, Peter Alexander or Roberto Blanco – “one of my best friends for more than 60 years”, says the singer, who with hits like “Schöne Maid” or “Today we hit the drum” Celebrated successes. They show him at the grave of the great opera singer Enrico Caruso: “When I saw the film” The Great Caruso “as a child, I knew: I want to be a singer.”
He used to have his treasures in a private museum in his native Baden-Baden. When the rooms were terminated, he stored the items – and is now showing them in Gaggenau, supplemented by many more.
Baden-Baden’s certificate of honorary citizenship has a place of honor. You can also see one on which the island of Bora Bora, the eponymous song by Tony Marshall, once made him an honorary citizen – signed by Mayor Tong Sang. In the photo, the singer stands laughing broadly between two island beauties.
When Marshall talks about music, he shines even more than he already does. He belts out an aria by Verdi, he starts the “Ode to Joy”. The voice of the 83-year-old who studied classical singing is powerful and sonorous. There is no sign of the serious health problems he had three years ago. He has to go on dialysis three times a week, to “Anneliese” as he laughs. He wipes that away. “I am filled with gratitude,” he said. “My illnesses are not at all, just a deterioration of the body.”
Marshall, who describes himself as an atheist, is not afraid of death. Fall asleep and just not wake up, that’s it, he says. Or even better: “Get struck by lightning on stage.” But it is still a long way from there. He has big plans: He wants to celebrate a diamond wedding, a TV show is planned, about which he does not want to reveal anything, and a new album in the fall.
His new song “The Last Dream” will be released beforehand. His team wrote a touching text for him. “The last day is still in color, there is still music in my world. And the feeling that I have from life is so great that my soul flies. ”Dpa
