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as homage to this grand hotel, which was torn down in the same year. For the title selection for the album, he let the fans co-ordinate with the official homepage.
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reached number three and was in the Swiss Top 10 for fourteen weeks. Both albums were created by
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was his second home. Martin Hess, the hotelier couple's son, became his close friend and producer. At the hotel, the albums
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were released in 1985. It peaked on the Swiss charts at number ten and stayed twelve weeks. Two years later, the album
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in 1996. His subsequent albums regularly reached the top five on the Swiss album charts.
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went in a different direction. The French lyrics were written by his friend, author
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Eicher has recorded a cover version of the jazz standard
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Singer Sian Charia recorded a cover version of Eicher's
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