> Lip synching is very common in German TV shows. Why? Most of the TV producers will tell you that playing live is too 

> much work and lip synching is the easier way for both the artist and the TV crew.

I usually work as a musician for some names coming to Italy (I did Geri Halliwell piano player as well as Joe Cocker bassist player, and someone else not as important as them); the curious thing is that even if everytime it's a playback recording/broadcasting, while with Geri it was easy as SHE doesn't even sing when she properly tour, for Joe it was a little bit serious: he wanted a Fender bas player (I have 2 Fender basses - what a coincidence) and when I met him he checked every little detail such as the age of the instrument, why the pick-ups were changed and some other technical stuff; that really surprised me, in a very good way I got to say, he's not even a bass player but what a serious artist is he!!! Always taking care of everything even if the broadcast was simply a playback!

This is Mr. Joe Cocker (to share the stage with someone who did Woodstock was a little bit...shocking).

 

Ciao ciao   

                    Giovanni