Ricky Van Helden

Name Ricky Van Helden
Birth date unbekannt
Land Germany
Stadt unbekannt

In the early 80's he played a lot of gigs, as a young Drummer & Singer, with his first Band "LYRA".

Together with Keyboarder Steve Töteberg, Guitarist Chris Pegel and Bassist Peter Pichl he created a own style of Rock-Music in those time.

When LYRA split up 1983, he bought a Bass-Guitar, to build a new hard-sounding Band with mystic-medieval lyric-themes & the use of, for this kind of music, exotic instruments like flute & cello...ATTACK was born! After some gigs they recorded the single "Mouse in a maze" (1983). In a changing formation ATTACK released 1984 their first album "Danger in the air", 1985 follows the second LP "Return of the evil" and 1987 "Beastkiller". With a new Line-up they released "Destinies of war" (1989), but they had problems with their Record-Company (the Cover-Artwork was cruelty)...so he found his own Label "Iceland-Records" and recorded some songs, to get a Label-Code.

The result was "Seven years in the past" (1992). 1994 the compilation "Revitalize" came out and 1995 follows "The Secret Place". After the recordings for the album "Deadlocked" (1996) with their new Drummer Frank Ullrich (ex-"Grave Digger"), the album-title came true and he began to retire...

So he lives till today very secluded in the North/West of Germany.

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