Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider met as students at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf in the late 1960s. They formed Kraftwerk in 1970; the name is the German word for “power plant.” After ...
The world of music in 1974 wasn’t prepared for an electronic music revolution, nor for that revolution to take place by way of a track that lasted for 22 minutes and 45 seconds… about a motorway. But ...