[5] In late 1983 the Klimek brothers moved to West Berlin and along with Jayney (who had been in a band in Australia) formed the group early in the following year.
[6] Jayney guested on lead vocals for that group's track, "Lassie Come Home", on their second album, Afternoons in Utopia (June 1986).
With tinny, electronic drum kit beats, pseudo-macho guitar solos, cheesy keyboard riffs, and romantic simpleton lyrics on par with 'roses are red, violets are blue,' there's plenty here to offend those who take their songwriting seriously.
"[13] He felt the group "fused the era's synth-riff conceits with some tasty guitar licks, with Jayney leading the way into pop hook heaven.
After the Other Ones had disbanded Alf Klimek travelled between Berlin and Melbourne, eventually he opened a music recording studio, Birdland, with fellow producer, Lindsay Gravina.
Jayney Klimek has collaborated with other musical artists and was a co-lead singer for the Tony Banks' project, Bankstatement, in 1989.
In that same year she started a new band, You Pretty Thing, with former Other Ones bandmate Schwarz-Ruszczynski; backing vocals were provided by Alf and Johnny.
They released an album in March 2008, Tune In, and their first single, "Push It",[19] became the most played song on German radio group RadioEins history.
He has composed music for the HBO television series: Deadwood, John from Cincinnati and the feature film, One Hour Photo.
In 1999 German techno band UKW, with Schwarz-Ruszczynski aboard, entered the dance charts with "Hypnotic", produced by local trance DJ–producer ATB.
In 2004 he and fellow ex-Other Ones bandmate, Jayney Klimek, created the band You Pretty Thing which recorded at the Bibest Studio and performed all over Europe in support of their debut album, which was released in 2008.
Stephan Gottwald began producing in 1991 at Hansa Tonstudio, Berlin and collaborated with Ben Lauber and Moses Schneider to form a production team, Bauknex.
Uwe Hoffmann also produced albums for Die Ärzte and other musicians including Ulla Meinecke and Sportfreunde Stiller.