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Atlantis was founded in late summer 1972 by Inga Rumpf (vocals), Jean-Jacques Kravetz (keyboard) and Karl-Heinz Schott (bass). These musicians played previously with the band Frumpy. The founding members guitarist Frank Diez and drummer Curt Cress counted beyond (formerly of the band Emergency). After several live performances in Germany, the first LP was produced in the studios of Iceland Records in London, specifically in the United States was well received, where it was estimated hull blue-oriented voice. Diez and Cress left after the recordings the band. For a four-week tour of England with Procol Harum and Traffic came George Meier as a guitarist and Udo Lindenberg as a drummer to Atlantis. These were (formerly of Jeronimo) replaced after the tour by Dieter Bornschlegel (formerly of the band Dream pie) and Ringo Funk, which then the second LP It's Getting Better (1973) was recorded. During a further four-week tour of England Jean-Jacques Kravetz left the band to join the band Randy Pie. For him, jumped a short Rainer Fast . At the end of 1973 the band was ranked among the three most popular groups of the readership of the then major trade journal music market. As early as the summer of 1974 the next personnel change took place. For Rainer clamp came the British keyboardist Adrian Askew, Dieter Bornschlegel came guitarist Alex Conti from the band Curly Curve. In this occupation, the third album Ooh, Baby was recorded 1974th In 1975 a tour was by the United States (usually opened for Lynyrd Skynyrd) instead, after their completion, the band of Alex Conti separated, for once again the former guitarist Frank Diez and the first time a second guitarist, Rainer Marz (formerly like Ringo Funk at Jeronimo), came to the group. The following fourth LP Get on Board (1975) is clearly influenced by Hard Rock American style, however, was not a commercial success. In January 1976 proclaimed hull and bulkhead the dissolution of the band. It occurred to March in 1976 some more studio recordings that have been released on the album Top of the bill. On February 23, 1983, a one-off reunion concert of the founding members of Atlantis took place in the Hamburg factory.