"He was always firmly in my mind as one of the most important musical figures of my life," Rother said of his former bandmate Neu!’s Michael Rother has penned a tribute to his former Kraftwerk bandmate Florian Schneider.
Schneider, who is credited as one of the pioneers of electronic music, died last week aged 73. Kraftwerk co-founder Ralf Hütter confirmed the news, saying he “passed away from a short cancer disease just a few days after his 73rd birthday.” Now, Rother, the Neu!
co-founder who briefly played in Kraftwerk, has paid tribute to his old schoolmate for Uncut. Upon receiving the news of Schneider’s death, Rother said it “hit me like a blow.
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