Dune is a German Rave

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/Happy Hardcore

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/Techno

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/progressive trance band, not to be confused with the Danish rock band, Dúné

Dúné

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. The band took its name from the Dune series of science fiction

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 novels by Frank Herbert

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.

History

The band formed in 1995 and divided with the departure of Verena von Strenge

Verena von Strenge

Verena von Strenge is a dancer and singer.Verena's love for dance started at when she was very young. At the age of 5, she was taught classical dance by her grandmother who was a former ballerina...

, their lead singer, in 2000, before they could release their album Reunion (the album was never released due to a court order that stopped the single "Heaven"). After a short break, Dune announced a new single "Dark Side Of The Moon" and the return of Verena von Strenge.

Their latest single "Rainbow To The Stars 2003" was released on 23 June 2003.

A track commonly mis-credited to Dune is "Starchild" & "Starchild II" but it was actually released in 1995 by the Swedish group with the same name as the song; Starchild (Swedish band).

Reunion & "Heaven" Issues

When Verena Von Strenge came back to Dune in late 1999, they recorded the single "Dark Side Of The Moon", and began recording songs for an album called Reunion. However, Dune recorded a cover of Avancada & Central Seven's 1999 hit "Piece Of Heaven", changed the lyrics, and called it "Heaven". Dune incorrectly thought they had permission to produce the cover. The CD single and an LP Vinyl release was made, and a music video, which played on VIVA TV in Germany. However, a week later, A7 put in a court order on the single "Heaven", saying it sounds like their single "Piece Of Heaven". Dune was later forced to remove "Heaven", and they could not release their album Reunion due to the court order. The recorded singles, except for "Heaven", were released on the later album "History".

Members

• Oliver Froning
  Oliver Froning
  Oliver Froning was born on July 25, 1963 in Münster, Germany. He began his music career in 1984 under the name djraw. Together with Jens Oettrich, Bernd Burhoff he started the group Dune in 1992. The group performed from 1992 to 2000. Since 2004 Froning has been concentrating on his project...
  
   (1995-)
• Jens Oettrich (1995-)
• Bernd Burhoff (1995-)
• Verena von Strenge
  Verena von Strenge
  Verena von Strenge is a dancer and singer.Verena's love for dance started at when she was very young. At the age of 5, she was taught classical dance by her grandmother who was a former ballerina...
  
   (1995–1997, 1999–2000)
• Vanessa Hörster (1997–1998)
• Tina Lacebal (1998)

Singles

Year	Title	Chart Positions
		AUT Ö3 Austria Top 40 Ö3 Austria Top 40 is the name of the official Austrian singles chart, as well as the radio show which presents it, aired Fridays on Hitradio Ö3. The show presents the Austrian singles, ringtones and downloads chart. It premiered on 26 November 1968 as Disc Parade and was presented by Ernst Grissemann...	NET Dutch Top 40 The Dutch Top 40 is a weekly music chart, which started as the "Veronica Top 40", because the offshore radio station Radio Veronica was the first to introduce it. It remained "The Veronica Top 40" until 1974, when the station was forced to stop broadcasting...	FIN Finland Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...	GER	SWE Sverigetopplistan Sverigetopplistan, earlier known as Topplistan and Hitlistan and other names, is since October 2007 the Swedish national record chart, based on sales data from Swedish Recording Industry Association ....	SWI Swiss Music Charts The Swiss Music Charts are Switzerland's main music sales charts. The charts are a record of the highest-selling singles and albums in various genres in Switzerland.The Swiss Charts include:* Singles Top 75...
1995	Hardcore Vibes	-	10	-	5	-	36
1995	Are You Ready to Fly Are You Ready to Fly "Are You Ready to Fly" is a 1992 single by Zambian born singer Rozalla, from her album Everybody's Free. The song achieved a certain success in many countries, including U.S...	-	17	-	12	-	23
1995	Can't Stop Raving	-	10	-	7	-	16
1996	Rainbow to the Stars	-	8	7	12	52	23
1996	Hand in Hand	18	9	-	10	-	39
1996	Million Miles from Home	-	10	-	17	40	39
1996	Who Wants to Live Forever Who Wants to Live Forever "Who Wants to Live Forever" is a song by the English rock band Queen. The song is the sixth track on the album A Kind of Magic, released in June 1986, and was written by guitarist Brian May for the soundtrack to the film Highlander, directed by Russell Mulcahy...	3	12	-	2	9	59
1997	Nothing Compares 2 U Nothing Compares 2 U "Nothing Compares 2 U" is a pop song written by American recording artist Prince for one of his side-projects, The Family. However, it wasn't until Sinéad O'Connor recorded her version for the album I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got when it became a worldwide hit, topping charts in 15 countries,...	36	-	-	-	-	-
1997	Keep the Secret	-	-	-	-	-	-
1998	Electric Heaven	-	-	-	-	-	50
1998	One of Us	-	-	-	-	-	-
1999	Dark Side of the Moon	-	-	49	-	-	-
2000	Hardcore Vibes 2000	-	-	-	-	-	-
2000	"Heaven"	-	-	-	-	-	-
2003	Rainbow to the Stars 2003	-	-	-	74	-	-

Albums

Year	Title	Chart Positions
		AUT Ö3 Austria Top 40 Ö3 Austria Top 40 is the name of the official Austrian singles chart, as well as the radio show which presents it, aired Fridays on Hitradio Ö3. The show presents the Austrian singles, ringtones and downloads chart. It premiered on 26 November 1968 as Disc Parade and was presented by Ernst Grissemann...	NET Dutch Top 40 The Dutch Top 40 is a weekly music chart, which started as the "Veronica Top 40", because the offshore radio station Radio Veronica was the first to introduce it. It remained "The Veronica Top 40" until 1974, when the station was forced to stop broadcasting...	FIN Finland Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...	GER	HU Hungary Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...	SWI Swiss Music Charts The Swiss Music Charts are Switzerland's main music sales charts. The charts are a record of the highest-selling singles and albums in various genres in Switzerland.The Swiss Charts include:* Singles Top 75...
1995	Dune Dune (Dune album) Dune is the first album by German band Dune. It was released in 1995 on the label Motor Music.-Track listing:All tracks by Berd Burhoff, Oliver Froning & Jens Oettrich except were noted# "In The Beginning" – 0:48# "Hardcore Vibes" – 3:33...	-	59	-	21	36	20
1996	Expedicion Expedicion Expedicion is the second album by German band Dune. It was released in 1996 on the label Orbit Records.-Track listing:# "Rising" – 0:25# "Million Miles From Home" – 4:22# "Expedicion" – 5:26# "Lost In Space" – 4:44# "So Beautiful" – 6:37...	43	34	38	16	4	28
1996	Live!	-	45	-	89	-	-
1997	Forever Forever (Dune album) Forever is the fourth album by German band Dune. It was released in 1997 on the label Orbit Records. The album is very different from the other albums released, because the style is classical...	4	63	-	2	19	11
1998	Forever and Ever Forever and Ever (album) Forever and Ever is the fifth album by German band Dune. It was released in 1998 on the label Orbit Records.As was the case with their previous album Forever, Forever and Ever contains covers of famous pop song performed in a classical style, accompanied by The London Session Orchestra, with every...	-	-	-	-	-	-
1998	5 (unreleased)	-	-	-	-	-	-
2000	Reunion	-	-	-	-	-	-
2000	History	-	-	-	69	-	-

External links

• Official site
• Fanpage
• Fan website Dune (en)
• Dune at Danceartistinfo.com
• Dune lyrics
• The story behind the cancellation of Reunion