“I said, ‘To be honest, our first single was a fast, punky version of your song.’ They all chorused, ‘Yes, we know!’”: How Kraftwerk influenced a band who influenced a whole era of British music

Photo by Stara/Kraftwerk/Getty Images, CIRCA 1975: German electronic group Kraftwerk (L-R Wolfgang Flur, Karl Bartos, Florian Schneider and Ralph Hutter) pose for a portrait circa 1975. (Photo by Stara/Kraftwerk/Getty Images).

In 2011 OMD’s Andy McCluskey told Prog how Kraftwerk were directly responsible for his band’s debut single Electricity, which went on to inspire a range of British synth-led genres of the 80s.

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