Tim Christensen

Honeyburst and Abbey Road (2003–2008)

By the time Secrets on Parade was released, some songs were seven years old, Christensen picked this song from the demos he had ready when the producer told him what the series were about.

After his successes with two ballads, the general audience for a time got a rather awkward impression of the music he was making: "I sense that the entire general population knows about Dizzy Mizz Lizzy and about Nikolaj og Julie, but nothing of what's in between. That feels very strange because Secrets on Parade after all did sell nearly 60,000 copies and I even scored several hits." It was described as being quieter and more mature, sometimes offering an explosion of rock, more folkish and with a little twinge of country. Christensen had been signed with this label since the start from his career, but the people he used to work closely with at EMI had been replaced by new people he did not know, so he joined them in 2005 after his contract with EMI expired. When his long-time friend and producer Nick Foss started Mermaid Records together with former EMI-colleague Mik Christensen, he switched to their label prior to the release of his next album, Superior. Sony Music Denmark later bought a part of Mermaid Records. Danish musician Gunnar Mikkelsen rewrote the lyrics for his 2004 song "Haunted Honeymoon", which Dutch rock band Di-rect later covered as "I Forget Your Name" on their live-cd Live & Acoustic (2008), of which the single release failed to catch on. In 2006, Danish boy band Unite covered the song with even different lyrics under the title "Need to Know". Christensen revealed the original lyrics in 2013, and occasionally plays "Maybe Not Anyhow" in acoustic settings. Charlie Dinsdale is also credited as co-writer on "Lille Søster" (2000) by Søs Fenger. Under the pseudonym C.S. Son, Christensen also co-wrote "Find Her" (1997) by YouKnowWho.

Christensen was officially asked to write the people's gift to the wedding of Crown Prince Frederik and Mary Elizabeth Donaldson on 14 May 2004, but he turned it down: "It was flattering, but I thought it sounded a little too corny. The task was much better placed in the hands of Erann DD."

On 16 August 2006, Christensen briefly reunited with his Dizzy Mizz Lizzy bandmates for a 5-song performance at the charity event Brandalarm (Fire Alarm).

Distributed activities (2008–2014) After Christensen noticed that the cycle of releasing records and going on tours became repetitive, he started diversifying his work. He split his solo career into full-band and acoustic settings, played with the reunited Dizzy Mizz Lizzy, started collaborating with other artists such as Mads Langer, the DR UnderholdningsOrkestret, Gemma Hayes, Mike Viola and Tracy Bonham, and presented a radio show on DR P6 Beat.

On 10 October 2010, Christensen was the closing act at the annual Ken Gudman Prisen award ceremony, where his guitarist Lars Skjærbæk received that year's award. He played the songs "Surfing the Surface", "Tell Me What You Really Want", "Jump The Gun", "Isolation Here I Come", "Superior", and "Whispering at the Top of My Lungs. The only solo performances with a full set Christensen played in 2010 were held in the Netherlands on 4–7 November, for which he received the Inner Ear Media Award for Best Live Show 2010.

On 12 November 2010, EMI released the compilation albums Big-5: Tim Christensen and Big-5: Dizzy Mizz Lizzy as part of their Big-5 series, containing their artists' five best tracks.

Christensen's fourth studio album was released on 25 November 2011. It bears the title Tim Christensen and The Damn Crystals, giving credit to his solo band. The album is a collaborative effort between Christensen and his backing band The Damn Crystals. About the relation of this album to the 2010 reunion and tour of Dizzy Mizz Lizzy, Christensen said: "I have not tried to suck juice from the Dizzy-reunion and use it on my next solo project. To me, Dizzy has been extremely separated from my ongoing development as an artist, musician, or whatever you call it. The reunion was a pit stop to celebrate music. But already one week after the last concert – and I am not lying here – Dizzy was already completely out of my system again. Weird huh?"

The album's first single "Surprise Me" was previewed to the fans for 48 hours on 21 October 2011 and officially released on 24 October 2011. During its first week, DR P3 chose it as "Single of the Week". On 14–24 July 2011, they were in the line-up of the Grøn Koncert tour, as in 2002, 2005 and 2009. At the 2011 Danish Music Awards, they performed "Surprise Me" and "Get the Fuck out of My Mind". From 26 January through to 7 April 2012, they held 27 performances throughout Denmark, In October 2011, Christensen participated as a mentor in the DR project Dr.dk/Sangskriver, which aims to get children and teenagers to sing more. Each week, he would provide feedback to three of the songs that were uploaded to the project's website.

On 17 December 2012, Christensen released The EP Series, Volume 1: Acoustic Covers, a 6-track album with only Christensen singing and playing acoustic guitar, and one duet with Gemma Hayes. Christensen's first two solo albums, Secrets on Parade and Honeyburst, were re-released on vinyl on 19 April 2014 through Parlophone.

From 21 October 2014 onwards, parts of the song "If You Wanna Talk" were revealed as part of the "Knæk Cancer" (Break Cancer) campaign. A short documentary with interviews was released on 27 October via YouTube.

Christensen performed in the tribute concert for the DR UnderholdningsOrkestret (DR Chamber Orchestra) on 26 October 2014. He had played with the orchestra on several occasions and was set to play with them again in 2015 before the announcement of the orchestra's disbanding was made. It was attended by around 35,000 people and included performances of several major Danish musicians and groups covering songs of Gasolin' and Larsen.

Tim Christensen during Dizzy Mizz Lizzy's performance at Roskilde Festival 2010.

Dizzy Mizz Lizzy reunion

Between 18 March and 29 September 2010, Christensen went on a reunion tour through Denmark and Japan with Dizzy Mizz Lizzy, playing almost 50 concerts. During the final two concerts in Japan on 28–29 September, Christensen played the solo songs "Love is a Matter Of..." and "Surfing the Surface" acoustically as a precursor to a select few solo shows in Japan later that year. After this, they disbanded amically, though they appeared one more time in public at the film festival CPH:DOX, where a documentary about the band entitled Lost Inside a Dream premiered. Here it received the Politiken Publikumspris (people's choice award).

Collaborations with other artists Around the time Christensen worked on the album Superior, he co-wrote the song "Say No More" with Mads Langer, and on 28 February 2009, he performed with Danish indie rock band Figurines on the TV show DR2 Backstage.

Christensen played guitars for Heidi Svelmøe Herløw's second album Talisman (2011, Playground Music), among others on the single "Angerholic" which was released on 29 November 2010, and the song "Shame on Us" on which Christensen features with vocals and guitars. As a contestant for X Factor in 2008, she sang Christensen's song "Whispering at the Top of My Lungs" in the first live show.

Christensen performed a show with Gemma Hayes on 25 August 2011. A year later, she also sang a duet with Christensen on the song "A Way to Say Goodbye", released on The EP Series, Volume 1: Acoustic Covers. The show included the entire album Ram, as well as several post-Beatles songs. The show was recorded and released on 12 February 2013 as Pure McCartney.

Dizzy Mizz Lizzy's second era (2014–current) After a four-year hiatus, Christensen wrote the abbreviation "DML2015" on his Facebook wall on 20 October 2014, suggesting another Dizzy Mizz Lizzy reunion. Shortly thereafter, they resumed touring as a band, and revealed new material. At the time, Christensen did not exclude continuing to record and release a new solo album while also fronting Dizzy Mizz Lizzy, because for example his heavy guitar riffs do not fit in his solo work, while Crowded House covers do not fit in with Dizzy Mizz Lizzy.

Dizzy Mizz Lizzy released their third studio album Forward in Reverse on 29 April 2016 to critical acclaim, receiving 2016 GAFFA Awards for both "Danish album of the year" and "Danish rock album of the year". According to critics, it helped the band regain their position as Denmark's most popular rock band. The band's fourth studio album Alter Echo, released on 20 March 2020, was lauded with the GAFFA Award for "Danish rock album of the year", while Christensen received the award for "Songwriter of the year" for the first time in his career. Fans appear to have embraced the new songs as much as the classics.

Equipment Christensen uses two Vox AC30 amplifiers from the 1960s on top of Marshall 4x12 G1275 cabinets which he got from his parents for his 18th birthday, He also uses Henning Hansen guitars, and had a worn red Fender Telecaster body revised by them in 2008. In his living room, he keeps a Höfner bass guitar. nor could he find one right away.

Olsen left the band in 2005 to focus on BigBang, to which he had returned in 2001. He was replaced by Jesper Lind, who first performed with the band during the July 2005 Grøn Koncert series. At the time, Lind played on drums in the band Kira and the Kindred Spirits,

Secrets on Parade Year released: 2000 Record label: EMI

Honeyburst Year released: 2003 Record label: EMI

Superior Year released: 2008 Record label: Mermaid Records (Denmark) PIAS Recordings (Netherlands)

Tim Christensen and The Damn Crystals

Eason Chan had performed the song How far you go and changed it into Chinese version. In that version, the name is adapted as "sonata loneliness" (寂寞奏鳴曲), which was inside one of his albums,Black, white, grey, released in 2003. An Italian version of "Right Next to The Right One" titled "Giorni d'estate" ("Summer days") was recorded for Dolcenera's fourth album, Dolcenera nel paese delle meraviglie ("Dolcenera in Wonderland"). Celine Dion covers "Right Next to The Right One" on her album Taking Chances (2007).

Awards Dizzy Mizz Lizzy 1994 Danish group of the year (GAFFA Award) 1995 Danish group of the year (Danish Grammy) 1995 Danish newcomer of the year (Danish Grammy) 1995 Danish rock album of the year (Danish Grammy for Dizzy Mizz Lizzy) 1995 People's choice award (Danish Grammy) 1996 Danish live group of the year (GAFFA Award) 1997 Danish live group of the year (GAFFA Award) 1997 Danish rock album of the year (Danish Grammy for Rotator) 1997 Danish producer of the year (Danish Grammy for Nick Foss for Rotator) 2016 Danish album of the year (GAFFA Award for Forward in Reverse) 2004 Danish singer of the year (Danish Grammy) 2004 Danish producer of the year (Danish Grammy for Honeyburst, shared with Rune Nissen-Petersen) 2015 IFPI's Ærespris (Danish Grammy, Honorary Award)

Tim Christensen and Mads Langer 2014 Danish band of the year (GAFFA Award) 2014 Danish rock album of the year (GAFFA Award for Side Effects)