“Five decades on, it’s still a bewildering but rewarding experience”: Faust’s self-titled debut album returns

Faust – Faust.

History doesn’t record the expression on the face of Horst Schmolzi, the A&R executive who shelled out a substantial amount of money to left-wing journalist and critic Uwe Nettelbeck in a but t0 find Germany’s answer to The Beatles – only to get Faust.

In Nettlebeck’s defence, Polydor did get a version of the Fab Four – unfortunately for them, it was the sound-collage experimentalists of Revolution 9 rather than the cuddly moptops who wanted to hold your hand.