His themes include life on the road, his hobbies (e.g., flying), childhood memories, his family life and surroundings, and occasionally politics. Mey writes both sensitive and humorous songs, with subject matter taken mostly from his everyday life and surroundings. Undiagnosed severe pneumonia had led to a cardio-pulmonary arrest, from which Maximilian was resuscitated after eight minutes of hypoxia. His son Maximilian died in May 2014 after five years in a persistent vegetative state. Today, Mey lives in Berlin-Frohnau in his second marriage (since 1977) to Hella Hennies (born in Hannover), and had three children in the marriage: Frederik (born 20 November 1976), Maximilian (born 28 January 1982 died May 2014), and Victoria-Luise (born 19 November 1985). In 1967, he married a French woman named Christine. He records his French material under the name of Frédérik Mey.
He has written songs in German, French, Dutch and English. He broke off his university studies in economics in order to concentrate on songwriting and singing, and has been a successful performer in Germany, in France, and in the Netherlands ever since. In 1963, Mey graduated from the French Gymnasium in Berlin, receiving the German Abitur as well as the French Baccalauréat, and thereafter began vocational training as an industrial trader at Schering AG Berlin. In 1961, he became part of the group Les Trois Affamés, with Schobert Schulz. This led to his first recording contract.
In 1965, Mey was offered the chance to perform at a Liedermacher festival at Waldeck Castle, a converted castle ruin. During his school years he gained performance experience by playing Skiffle music with friends.
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He taught himself how to play the trumpet. At the age of 12, he had his first piano lesson, and at the age of 14 he got his first guitar. Reinhard Mey was born on 21 December 1942, in Berlin, Germany, where he spent his childhood.
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