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Fred Jaklitsch: “You simply can’t do without music”

Fred Jaklitsch wrote Austrian music history with the Seer, but the band recently retired. This year, the Styrian will be 65 years old. With the new project Mystic Alpin, Jaklitsch wants to get off to a fresh start.

The soon-to-be 65-year-old Fred Jaklitsch has already submitted his retirement application, but as a musician he's like the Rolling Stones: as long as he can get on stage without a walking frame and his brain works as a hit machine, the music obsessive will carry on. "I'd be desperate if I had to stop now," he says - and he's taking off with a new formation.