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Udo Dirkschneider is rock musician, vocalist and one of the founders of the heavy metal grupp Accept. After leaving Accept in , he formed his own group U.D.O. He was born in Wuppertal in Western Germany. His family owned a factory for the production of various parts and tools. By the time Udo started school, the family moved to Solingen. Udo's love for music began with a parental gift: The Beatles records "I'm down" and a portable tape recorder donated in Somewhere around the same time, he heard the Rolling Stones and began to prefer them to The Beatles. Udo, like many teenagers, decided to try himself in music, preferring keyboards. In , he had a modest model of the instrument, and learned to play using his own self-instruction manual. He rehearsed with Michael Wagener, a classmate, the future guitarist of Accept and the future famous producer and sound engineer. For the slightest group, one way or another, was needed a singer. Udo had to sing, and the result
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U.D.O. started back in Since then U.D.O. has become a well known name in the heavy metal world. Within a short period of time U.D.O. became to be a global presence, with pure sound and the unmistakable voice of Udo Dirkschneider.
Closely tied to the name U.D.O. is "Accept", founded by Udo Dirkschneider and Michael Wagner (who later to become a top producer) in Solingen, which was the predecessor of U.D.O. Already back then, Udo gave the band the label "unmistakable". The path Accept took was marked with classics like "Breaker", "Restless and Wild" and " Balls to the Wall". After the breaking up of Accept in , a large fan community followed Udo Dirkschneider to U.D.O. The loyal fans were not dissapointed, for Udo amazed them with new U.D.O.
Starting with the first albums "Animal House" in and "Mean Machine" in U.D.O. proved to be pure heavy metal without any "Trend-Sound" influences. Both Albums conti
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