While Thomas Anders was singing Dieter's songs in the USSR, Dieter was presenting his new project, called Blue System. On 1 Oct. 1987, he appears in the program Tele-As. The first Blue System single released was "Sorry Little Sarah". With this samba number, Dieter shows that he wants to put forward a totally different sound. This single wasn't a number one hit, but the song was still a top ten entry. The weird thing was that Dieter was in opposition to himself at that period: "In the garden of Venus" had just been released! Dieter Bohlen wanted Modern Talking fans would become Blue System fans... In November Blue System released "Walking on a rainbow", it's first album. Album included the first Blue System's hit "Sorry Little Sarah".

Dieter said about this song: "After Modern Talking, I thought a long time what could I do now, and we never had a samba-hit in Germany. So it was a big challenge for me to write a samba title."

Around Christmas, Dieter received a telephone call from the manager from Sylvester Stallone's wife, called Brigitte Nielsen. Mr. Stallone offered Dieter about $600.000 to convince Dieter of his wife's voice-quality. Dieter flew to the Spiama studio in L. A. After recording some demos with Brigitte; Dieter went back to Germany and improved the demos. The project failed, because Brigitte's lawyers decided that Dieter might only write three songs for her. After that, Dieter lost his interest in Brigitte.

In the beginning of 1988, Dieter moved to Ohlstedt, near Hamburg. Dieter now had a 40-sq. meters large studio up. Dieter liked to work alone, before others hear the result. With the help of synthesizers, sequencers and drum machines, he can deliver an almost ready-made production. If the results aren't perfect according to his standards, he finishes the product in another studio where there are more possibilities. The studio in his home has also the advantage that he's near to his family.

In Mars '88, the second single "My bed is too big" was released. The video was made in Death Valley (California). At the same time, a video was shot in Las Vegas for the song "House of mystic lights" by C. C. Catch. This track is available on the album "Diamonds", which was in fact a greatest hit album. The interesting fact of this album, is that there were three tracks never released before: "House of mystic lights", "Don't shoot my sheriff tonight" and "Do you love as you look". The same year, Dieter wrote the fifth album for Caroline called "Big fun".

In1989, the album "Classics" was released: again a compilation album. All of a sudden comes the news that C. C. Catch broke a contract with Dieter. Nobody expected that such a good and fruitful co-operation through all those years would change into a confrontation between the two. The fight was Caro's nickname, C. C. Catch, and the right to use it. Dieter claimed that just he had created Caro's stage name and wanted her to change it, since she left him. Dieter lost the case and Caro Müller was still allowed to use the name. The real reason of the quarrel was that Caroline wanted to change her music style and image. So she just turned to an English composer and resigned the work with Dieter. In addition, not only Caroline leaves him, but also Chris Norman, who made his comeback with Dieter's help.

However, the sorrow is dispelled by Dieter's second child Marvin Benjamin on December 21, 1988.

Around Christmas, the second Blue System album called "Body Heat" was released. In the album included new hits "Under my skin", "Love suite" and the ballad "Silent water". This song was also used in an episode of the German serial Tatort, which gave Dieter the opportunity to play a role as a murderer. On 26 Mars, Blue System appeared for the first time live on stage. This happened in the Alstendorfer sports hall, Hamburg. The radio station Radio Schleswig Holstein organized this, because they wanted to give Dieter a distinction. Needless Dieter got emotional when he received this price. He thanked the radio station and the public with the words: "Thanks to my fans who were faithful to me."

Blue System performed "Sorry Little Sarah" and an acoustic version of "My bed is too big". In October, the third video "Under my skin", got some headlines in the papers like 'Dieter's horror video' or 'Dieter's torture-chamber'. The German ZDF-channel found the video too randy and they required a new video for Ronny's Pop Show. The crew had to work a whole night on a new, 'cleaner' version. So, in Ronny's Pop Show there a different variation video was played than in Formel Eins on the ARD-channel.

The video for the single "When Sarah Smiles" contains some material from the videos "My bed is too big" and "Sorry Little Sarah". Furthermore, there are scenes where Dieter stands on reefs. These shots were made on Ibiza.

In the autumn 1989, the third album "Twilight" was released, with the magnificent number 1 hit "Magic Symphony". The second track on the album is "Love me on the rocks", a very dynamic song. Moscow was used as decor for the video of this song. In this video, scenes are showed how his first live appearance in Moscow.

At the time, Blue System is formed by Dieter Bohlen, Achim Vogel (guitar) and Michael Rollin (drums). Let's just remind that at first beside Dieter the members of Blue System were Achim Vogel (guitar), Frank Otto (Drums), Sonny Boy Snoopy (keyboards) and Caribbean girl Jeanne Dupuy (backing vocals).

We now reach February 1990, when Dieter becomes again father. This time it's a girl. Marielin was born on February 23, 1990. In August 1990, Blue System released a new album called "Obsession". Several singles were released from this album. As for "When Sarah Smiles", Ibiza was also used for the video "Love is such a lonely sword". In this video, you see also his friend Nadja abd el Farrag. (She's Sudanese/German and was born on February 5,1965 in Hamburg.

In April 1990, Dieter flew to Kenya to make the video for the single "48 hours". In the video, Dieter drives a jeep through the Travo Wildpark, where he meets the beautiful Nadja in a 'Massai' village. After the return to Germany, Blue System was reinforced by Joe Koli (bass), Achim Strieben (keyboards) and two girls Afro & Sandra (background vocals, dance).

At that time, Dieter and Nadja lived in a huge, white house in Quickborn (10 km from Hamburg), so that Dieter could see more often his children, who stayed with Erika in Hamburg.

The year 1990 ends with the video "All around the world". This video includes all the hits from 1987 until 1990. In the summer of 1991, another Blue System album was released "Seeds of heaven" with a hit "Lucifer".

One of Dieter's greatest wishes came out on 21 Aug. 1991, when he sang a duet with Dionne Warwick in a L.A. studio. Dieter was already thinking on a duet with her, when he saw a concert of her in Las Vegas in 1989. When he was back in Germany, he made a demo-tape of "It's all over" and sent the tape. The tape landed on the desk of her manager Clive Davis, who listened to the tape. He was enthusiastic about the tape and so did Dionne. On 20 Aug., they called Dieter if he could fly to L.A. The song was recorded in the Lion's Share Studio I en II. The song and video were made in one day!

Almost one year after, on 1 and 2 June, Dieter appeared at the Moscow Olympia stadium along with other German groups. The initiator of this event was Jurgen Müller, who is also the tour manager of Blue System. This man is also the father of C. C. Catch! About 50.000 spectators went to each concert. C. C. Catch made her appearance, although her latest single appeared in 1989. The proceeds of these benefit-concerts were in favor of the victims of Chernobyl. After these concerts, Dieter stayed in the USSR until 14 June and toured for the third time. The tour ended in some other countries of the former Eastern block.

Dieter's successful career continues with many more new hits and even new group. I want to thank you, my reader, for taking you time and reading, and hope it was quite entertaining. Now you know why I dedicated this page to Dieter.

I also would like to thank Gianni Sercu, and many other devoted fans who contributed to this page. You will see how diversted the army of Dieter's fans is on the main page.

1998 Ó Anatoly Strongin