Fifty years ago this month, an album was released in the U.S. that proved to be akin to a quake under a placid sea, one that created a ripple that grew into a tidal wave. That album was "Autobahn," ...

The success of the single and resulting Autobahn album allowed Kraftwerk – now including new member Karl Bartos, cementing the classic quartet that would endure until 1990 – to set out on their first ...

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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 ...

Three weeks later, with the single at 75 on its charts, Billboard went into it a little more. “With all the German avant-garde groups knocking vainly at US doors for the past five years, Kraftwerk is ...