Our story, in ten chapters

The archive's timeline tells the milestones: one date and one paragraph each. What it didn't tell was what happened between one milestone and the next. That is what Our story is for now: ten chapters running from the forums and chat rooms before 2004 to the stadium tour and today.

What's in it:

• The eras without a date. Collecting without official shops, or how the Facebook page reached around 40,000 followers, don't fit in a timeline. In a story they do.
• Real voices. Each chapter quotes testimonies published in Voices, exactly as their authors wrote them, with a link to the full testimony.
• The archive, connected. Each chapter links to its years in the timeline and to the Events entries instead of repeating them.

About us now also spells out our mission for the first time: to preserve the community's memory, with original content from real people.

The band timeline grew too. History & Biography only had albums. Now it has Lost Highway, the Wuhlheide nights, both Grammy nominations, Liebe ist für alle da on the German index, Madison Square Garden, the stadium tour from start to finish and the three nights at Foro Sol. Every fact is checked against external sources, and the ones that couldn't be confirmed were left out.

Part of the community's story comes from the memory of the people who were there, not from a published source. If you remember something differently, or have a photo from any of those eras, write to us.