Asked what had turned him on to music, the then 59-year-old told our man Stuart Clark: “The ‘Tutti Fruitti’ by Little Richard. “German state radio didn’t play rock ‘n’ roll, so we tuned in to the American Forces Network transmissions from Stuttgart. I remember being very excited when The Beatles came along, and annoyed with my parents because they wouldn’t let me go to one of their concerts. Later we would drive all over Germany to see bands, and because we had no money for hotels sleep in our cars.”
He also talked about Bono (“He said once that Kraftwerk are one of the great soul bands – well, U2 have that quality too”); the term ‘Krautrock’ (“It only exists in the minds of stupid journalists”); early electronic keyboards (“The first Minimoog I bought cost as much as my Volkswagen!”) and David Bowie (“We met David after one of his gigs in Düsseldorf, and he told us he’d been driving around in his Mercedes listening non-stop to Autobahn”)
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