19 Facts About Ed Kuepper

Edmund Kuepper was born on 20 December 1955 and is a German-born Australian guitarist, vocalist and songwriter.

Ed Kuepper has recorded over a dozen albums as a solo artist using a variety of backing bands.

Edmund Ed Kuepper was born on 20 December 1955 in Bremen, then part of West Germany.

Ed Kuepper's family migrated to Australia in the 1960s and settled in Brisbane.

Ed Kuepper attended Oxley State High School and Corinda State High School with Chris Bailey and Ivor Hay.

Ed Kuepper remained with The Saints until late in 1978 by which time they had issued Eternally Yours and Prehistoric Sounds.

Ed Kuepper left the group, returned to Australia, and The Saints continued with Bailey using a variable line-up.

Ed Kuepper returned to Sydney late in 1978 and considered retiring from the music industry.

Ed Kuepper provided lead guitar, lead vocals and banjo, with former bandmate Wegener on drums, Bob Farrell on saxophone, and Ben Wallace-Crabbe on bass guitar.

Early in 1985, Ed Kuepper released Electrical Storm, co-produced with Bruce Callaway and released by Hot Records.

Ed Kuepper won Best Independent Australian Release in 1993, for Black Ticket Day, and in 1994 for Serene Machine.

Ed Kuepper has recorded more than twenty solo albums using a variety of backing bands including His Oxley Creek Playboys, he Institute of Nude Wrestling, The Exploding Universe of Ed Kuepper, the New Imperialists, and the Kowalski Collective.

Bush noted that "Despite his very appreciative cult of fans and torrid release schedule, Ed Kuepper has not managed a breakthrough to wide popular acclaim".

Ed Kuepper has been involved in sound tracking radio drama and experimental films.

Venues included the Institute of Modern Art, Sydney Opera House, the Austrian Film Museum and the Cartier Foundation, where Ed Kuepper was the only rock musician to be invited apart from Velvet Underground.

In March 2012, Ed Kuepper released Second Winter, containing songs from the Electrical Storm and Rooms of the Magnificent albums with completely new arrangements and feel in the vein of Today Wonder.

In 2015, Ed Kuepper provided the soundtrack for the film Last Cab to Darwin.

Since 1994, Dransfield-Ed Kuepper has supplied art work, photography or illustrations for various Ed Kuepper-related albums.

Ed Kuepper is credited with guitar, vocals, banjo, mandolin, keyboard, percussion, composer, producer, mixing, remastering:.