ACCEPT: First-Ever Interview With Longtime Manager Posted Online

December 17, 2004

ACCEPT fan site Joe Schlared's Accept Home Page With U.D.O. has published the first part of an interview with longtime ACCEPT manager Gaby Hoffmann (also known throughout the '80s by the mysterious alias "Deaffy"). In addition to being ACCEPT's manager, Hoffmann was also the group's primary lyrics writer. She wrote lyrics for a couple songs on the "Restless and Wild" album, and then all the songs from "Balls to the Wall" on. She has declined all previous requests for interviews in the past, making this interview the very first one. A couple of excerpts from the interview follow:

Q: So I hear you and Wolf [Hoffmann, husband/ACCEPT guitarist] are moving back to Germany [from Nashville]? When will this be?

Gaby Hoffmann: There are a few things which are very personal and because of an ongoing development not for public discussion, but it has to do with the immigration situation for people like us, who are German citizens. After September 11 nothing is like it used to be. I love America and I never had a plan to return. But Wolf is very German and he — specially because of a very close family — does not want to endure the same like me, when my parents passed away, I could not be with them - this, he does not want to happen and he is looking forward to create more classical music, which would be a bit easier with the musician friends he has in Europe.

Q: The "Balls to the Wall" album, the band had to fight off SO MANY questions about the sexual connotations in the songs... namely with "London Leatherboys", "Head Over Heels" and "Love Child". Finally(!) can we get your thoughts and feelings on these songs?

Gaby Hoffmann: Let me answer this and (the next) question in one, OK? I have been very rebellious and by no means I would have written anything 'normal'! Never! The sexual question about the context of certain lyrics are mind games and pure interpretation from outsiders. This is a band who has as individuals — so little to do with controversy and absolutely nothing in particular with anything but being VERY straight. I can only say, all the lyrics have much deeper meaning than that and it surprised me, how little the public tried to find something else, than only one interpretation. However, it made the band one of the very, very first who have been in such a controversy — many famous bands mentioned that ACCEPT have been very innovative and inspiring, because of their boldness to mention everyday life problems — from justice to mercy killing and so on...."

Read the rest of the interview at this location.

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