(01.05.2008)
He had scared his fans, for weeks he couldn’t speak.
But Now it’s back, the voice of the successful band Tokio Hotel.
In the exclusive interview with BILD
singer Bill tells us what he went through.
Bill: It was just like this with me. Nothing worked. And they said, “alright, if we don’t remove this it’ll keep coming back and then it won’t be possible to go on singing”, and that was a real shock-news after that week… all the going back and forth. After the better news in the middle and all the setbacks. That was the point where one knew, allright now one is out of order for at least four weeks.
The scariest thing was… because of the surgery, general anesthesia and stuff, that brings you down quite a lot. And beforehand I had watched a horror movie. And there, there was a man… I don’t even remember the name of it… anyways there was such a man and he was under general anesthesia but he still noticed everything, but he couldn’t tell. That means he really was lieing there and the doctors thought everything was fine – he had to undergo a surgery on his heart – and they cut him open and he notices everything and actually wants to tell them, but he can’t because he can’t move…
And I watched such things of course beforehand, and thought to myself, ok the most important thing is that I fall asleep and don’t notice anything of it. That was really the most important thing for me.
For 4 weeks he was out of order. The musician wasn’t even allowed to listen to his own music. The 18-year-old spent alone in front of the TV, and wrote enthusiastically and additionally was worrying about his fans.
Bill: It is incredible what came from the fans, how they reacted. I was really thinking “Omg, hopefully no one will be mad at me because of this” and it really helped to see that somehow everybody is worried and that everybody is somehow there and all go this way with me and don’t leave me behind. That was anyhow really helpful during that time. There were really cute thing amongst it… one girl sent a cuff/tobey collar because she of course didn’t exactly know what was wrong with me. But in any case, there were also inhaling machines and much more… well it was incredible. I really have one side of the fridge full with things that I have(???) and then there are really boxes with doubles. So it is really incredible. Lots of stuff has arrived, and I think I couldn’t really see everything, but in any case the bigger part of it.
Uhm… I think I’m looking forward to seeing the stage, seeing the people, from the crew, to really see all those people again. And most of all the fans. Really to see that I can stand there again with a microphone in my hand, and something comes out. And I can really make the people, the audience happy. That was the worst for me that the tour had to be cancelled that all the disappointed fans had to go home, who really had already been waiting in front of the venue. And that had been looking forward to the concert for so long. And I can imagine really well how much that sucks, and yeah I was incredibly sorry for everything. I really am looking forward to standing there again and to being able to make all the people happy.
Already on Thursday Tokio Hotel are leaving for America. Here they want to present their new record “Scream”. What remains is to hope, that Bill doesn’t lose his voice again.