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1967 – 1968 Respect\n<\/strong>In 1967, having played 5 jobs in different bands without anything happening, Allan advertised for other people to play with. Guitarist Benny Dyhr and bass player Bjarne Thostrup, replied to the ad and a joint venture came into existence. Robert on drums joined in and Respect was formed. The music was mostly cover songs with a few attempts at writing their own songs. Over a period of one year, Respect played 78 jobs, mainly in Copenhagen and Zealand.<\/p>\n
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1968 – 1969 Second Review<\/strong> <\/p>\n 1969 – 1971 Hair<\/strong> <\/p>\n 1972 – 1973 RiverHorse<\/strong> <\/p>\n 1973 – 1975 – Allan Sorensen<\/strong> <\/p>\n 1981 – 2017 – RiverHorse\u00a0<\/strong> <\/p>\n 2018 – 2022 – Allan Sorensen<\/strong> <\/p>\n 2023 – Allan Sorensen<\/strong> This time Allan has not written new songs, but has dug deep into his archive and found 17 songs written in the period 1970 \u2013 1974 as well as 2 songs from 1988, which have not been published before. Hence the title Early Bird.<\/p>\n Lyrics by Torben Bille & Peter Rolnes<\/p>\n You can buy all the CD\u00b4s\u00a0 in Shop<\/strong><\/a> and listen to the songs in Diskography.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 2024 –<\/strong> Allan Sorensen<\/strong> All 14 songs were written, recorded and produced in this year 2024 – hence the title of this album is Twenty Twenty-Four.<\/p>\n You can buy all the CD\u00b4s\u00a0 in Shop<\/strong><\/a> and listen to the songs in Diskography.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Allan Sorensen Allan Sorensen singer-songwriter 1967 – 1968 Respect In 1967, having played 5 jobs in different bands without anything happening, Allan advertised for other people to play with. Guitarist Benny Dyhr and bass player Bjarne Thostrup, replied to the ad and a joint venture came into existence. Robert on drums joined in and Respect […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-319","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\nBjarne Thostrup wanted to stop and Benny knew a guy in Schneekloth Grammar School, Peter Rolnes, whom he thought was a better drummer than Robert. Then they had no bass player. So Allan took up playing bass and a new band had formed. At first with one more guitar player, Bjarne Arildsen and a piano player Jorgen Persson. But they soon became a trio playing what was at that time known as “progressive beat music”. Here, Allan played bass, Peter Rolnes drums and Benny Dyhr guitar. It was in this band they really started to play their own compositions. Collaboration with lyricist\u00a0Torben Bille, another Schneekloth alumni, started here. Being\u00a0 merely 20 years old lads, they had only scarce knowledge of the record industry and all the needs-to-know things for an up-coming band. In short, somrthing had to be done. In 1969, Paddy Gythfeldt joined the band, and they became “Hair”. Second Review played 17 jobs in Copenhagen and Zealand in 7 months.<\/p>\n![\"Hair](\"https:\/\/allansorensen-music.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/hair70-e1547904399687.jpg\")
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\nThe songwriting and the collaboration with Torben Bille was continued here and they got a “personal manager”, Peter Rud (today retired Supreme Court Attorney). The marketing got professional and as a result, a lot of concerts,\u00a0live performance in DR-TV, DR-Radio, SR-Radio and great press coverage.\u00a0 In their the first year of existence they made the album “Piece”<\/strong>, probably the most expensive record-production in Denmark at that time. The album sold what would today correspond to “going gold”. Following this,\u00a0 4 singles were released, one of them “Happy Child”<\/strong> making a no. 7 at Denmarks Radio P3’s Top 10. Just before initiating recordings for their second album, they disbanded. Hair played 93 concerts of 90 minutes during this 23-month period.\u00a0More info about Hair<\/strong>.<\/a><\/p>\n![\"RiverHorse](\"https:\/\/allansorensen-music.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/riverhorse3Layer1.jpg\")
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\nAllan and Peter Rolnes started the band “RiverHorse”. Peter, who was at that time one of Denmark\u00b4s foremost rock-drummers, wanted to play bass and Allan who played bass, but was originally a guitar player, wanted to shift to playing guitar again. They looked for people to play with, and after a while found Dan Johnsen, guitar player from “Pocket Size” and Bo Pedersen on drums.\u00a0In this context, songwriting really developed and they work hard with elaborate vocal arrangements. During this period, 20 new songs were produced.\u00a0The repertoire mainly consisted of Allan’s songs, plus a couple of Peter\u00b4s and Dan\u00b4s and a few cover songs.\u00a0They only managed to play 3 jobs.<\/p>\n![\"Allan](\"https:\/\/allansorensen-music.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/fo-allan74-3.gif\")
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\nAllan continued writing songs and at that time operated a demo studio in Rodovre with a friend Peter Bohm, who owned the place that Hair and RiverHorse had used for rehearsing during 1970-73. New collegue-players were found, Peter Klitgaard on guitar, Bo Summer on drums, alternately with Peter Rolnes who also played bass. With Jan Rosengaard on piano and organ the lineup was complete, and in 1975 a demo for a solo LP was completed. AS always, Torben Bille’s lyrics were in English. By this time, all music publishing in Denmark in practice had to be exclusively in Danish. Allan, however, had always written and sung his songs in English, and couldn\u00b4t see himself going through the process of converting his entire catalogue into Danish. Allan wrote 29 songs during this period From 1976, other interests, children, family, business and various commitments made their presence felt, and music was not given first priority any more.<\/p>\n![\"RiverHorse\"](\"https:\/\/allansorensen-music.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/syw-foto-3.jpg\")
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\nIn 1981, Allan and Peter started playing together again. Songwriting was resumed, but they were technically challenged with sequencers, recording equipment such as 4-track cassette tape recorder, later 8-track reel tape recorder, and generally not very good sound equipment. 1989 – 1992 they were joined by two female singers, Pia Kistrup and Kirsten Widding and played a few jobs. In 1993-1996 Peter and Allan took a break. But in 1996, they joined forces again and in 2000 recorded and released the CD (album) “RiverHorse”<\/strong>, in 2001 the maxi singles “Midnight Special”<\/strong> and “Bright Lights, Big City”<\/strong>, in 2003 the album “Sing Yourself Wet”,<\/strong> in 2005 the album “Classix”<\/strong>, in 2008 the album “Retriever”<\/strong> and in 2014 a single with the songs “Break Out”<\/strong> and “Some Rock\u00b4n\u00b4Roll”<\/strong>. During this period Allan wrote 57 songs. More info about RiverHorse<\/strong><\/a>.
\nYou can buy the RiverHorse CD\u00b4s in Shop<\/a> and listen to sound-clips on RiverHorse\u00a0 Discography.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n![\"Allan-7\"](\"https:\/\/allansorensen-music.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Allan-7-e1547906874161.jpg\")
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\nIn 1993-1996 during the break in RiverHorse\u00b4s activity, Allan recorded a number of songs by himself. These songs and many others were found in 2018 and\u00a0transferred to PC (digitized) from reel tapes, cassette tapes, DAT tapes and MiniDisk. Substantial parts of this material needs new recording, but 28 of them have found their way to Allan’s new double CD \u201cSongs from my past\u201d<\/strong> which was released January 25th 2019.
\nApril 7th 2021 Allan released the CD-album\u00a0\u201cCan\u00b4t Help It\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0with 15 songs of his own, a mix of brand new and older, but so far un-released, material.
\nSeptember 15th. 2022 the CD-album “Just A Matter Of Time”<\/strong> was released with 16 songs of his own, a mix of new and older, but so far un-released songs.\u00a0You can buy all the CD\u00b4s\u00a0 in Shop<\/strong><\/a> and listen to songs in Diskography.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/allansorensen-music.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Allan-2023-1.jpg\")
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\nApril 27th 2023 Allan Released the CD-album “Early Bird”.<\/strong><\/p>\n![\"2024](\"https:\/\/allansorensen-music.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/2024-foto-3.jpg\")
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\nOctober 31st 2024 Allan released the CD-album “Twenty Twenty-Four”.<\/strong><\/p>\n