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For the first time on CD! The second album by German progrock band Streetmark from 1977.In 1977, German prog legend STREETMARK recorded the second album Eileen which became a perfect synthesis of elements of electronic rock, classic, hard rock, and radio and symphonic sound collages. It was the second collaboration with Conny Plank, who was behind the mixing console for the final sound. Eileen was s a huge step forward for STREETMARK but, despite the success, singer Wolfgang Riechmann left the band to play his solo album Wunderbar also for Sky Records. 1969 formed in Düsseldorf, STREETMARK stirring up the German Rock scenery. They signed a record deal with Hamburg Sky Label in 1975 and in October of same year the band (cast at that time: Dorothea Raukes (Keyboards, vocals), Hans Schweiß (drums), Georg Buschmann (vocals), Thomas Schreiber (guitar) and Wolfgang Westphal (bass)) met in the studio to record the debut album. Nordland which has been published 1976 and received warm acceptance With the Beatles Coverversion of Eleanor Rigby the album had a veritable club hit. The degree of popularity raised tremendously, despite of that they seperated from Buschmann and Westphal and instead hired Wolfgang Riechmann (vocals) and Manfred Knauff (bass). With this new cast STREETMARK recorded the second album Eileen in 1977, which presented itself as a complete synthesis out of elements from electronic rock, classic, hardrock, as well as funk and symphonic sound elements. Also in foreign countries the band received notice. The British New Musical Express for example discovered some similarity with NEU! as well as with progressive bands like CAMEL. Again despite of this raising success Wolfgang Riechmann together with drummer Hans Schweiß left the band to record his solo album Wunderbar also for Sky Records. It happened that due to a tragic coincidence Riechmann 1978 for no reason was attacked by hooligans in the old town of Düsseldorf and was so injured by a knife wound that he passed away due to this on August 24th.