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Kraftwerk: The Men Who Invented Pop

30 years on from the day they topped the UK charts, 6 Music celebrates the influential German band Kraftwerk with Alex Kapranos telling their story.

Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 6 Music Celebrates Kraftwerk, the influential German band whose song The Model reached the top of the UK charts 30 years ago.

Kraftwerk are one of the reasons that music sounds like it does today. Pioneers, 20 years before their time, they invented much of what we recognise as the tools of electronic music. But quite apart from being inventors they were funky as hell and became the most sampled artists ever.

In a documentary first broadcast on Radio 1 in 2006, Franz Ferdinand's Alex Kapranos explores why they are so much more than four German blokes who loved bicycles.

30 minutes

Last on

Thu 2 Feb 2012 00:00

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Role Contributor
Producer Frank Wilson

Broadcast

  • Thu 2 Feb 2012 00:00