After three very successful studio albums and a live double LP, Frumpy disbanded in 1972: singer and front woman Inga Rumpf, keyboardist Jean Jacques Kravetz and bassist Karl-Heinz Schott continued as Atlantis, Frank Diez joined as the new guitarist and the former Emergency drummer Curt Cress replaced Carsten Bohn, who came from the successful Frumpy days.

The eponymous debut album, which Atlantis recorded in London’s Island Studios, sold very well in the USA, where Rumpf’s blues-oriented voice was appreciated. After the recordings, Diez and Cress left the band. Udo Lindenberg and Cravinkel’s guitarist George Meier stepped in for a tour with Traffic and Procol Harum. From then on, the personnel carousel at Atlantis was constantly turning, but this did not detract from the band’s steadily growing commercial success.

Albums such as “It’s Getting Better” (1973), “Ooh, Baby” (1974) and “Get On Board” (1975) are among the milestones in German rock history. In January 1976, Rumpf and Schott announced the break-up of the band. Now all four Atlantis studio albums released between 1972 and 1975 on the Vertigo label are available on a compact double CD with detailed liner notes and lots of photos.

CD1
1. Atlantis
2. Get Up
3. Big Brother
4. Rock’n Roll Preacher
5. Maybe It’s Useless
6. Let’s Get On the Road Again
7. Living At the End of Time
8. Words of Love
9. It’s Getting Better
10. Drifting Winds
11. Days of Giving
12. Changed It All
13. Fighter of Truth
14. Woman’s Sorrow
15. A Simple Song

CD2
1. Brother
2. Son of a Bitch’s Son
3. Waiting and Longing
4. Mr. Bigshot
5. The Way I Choose
6. Ooh Baby
7. Smiling People
8. New York City
9. Godfather
10. Leave It To the Devil
11. Good Friends
12. Get On Board
13. Change My Mind
14. The Man
15. Let Me Stay For a While
16. Keep the Music Going On
17. Chartbuster
18. The Captain and the Ship
19. If I Couldn’t Sing
20. Tried To Climb a Mountain
21. Mainline Florida