In this second installment with German guitar great Michael Rother, he discusses the differences between working with Klaus Dinger and Jaki Liebezeit, Dinger's difficult personality, recording ...

It’s been five years since the death of Klaus Dinger – one-time Kraftwerk member, Neu! drummer, and principal originator of the motorik sound. “The album contains songs which Klaus had in ...

"He didn’t put on brakes," says Miki Yui, the widow of Klaus Dinger, temporary member of Kraftwerk, former drummer with Neu! and later founder of La Düsseldorf. "He wasn’t moderate. He didn’t care ...

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Klaus Dinger, a figurehead of Germany’s Krautrock movement of the 1970s, who was associated with bands Neu! and Kraftwerk, died in late March of heart failure in Dusseldorf. He was 61.

I wonder if, when Klaus Dinger identified “Gigantic possibilities” in the middle of “Cha Cha 2000”, he had any idea of the gigantic possibilities his music would offer to thousands of ...

NEU!, the post-Kraftwerk krautrock project led by Michael Rother and Klaus Dinger, is being celebrated with a new box set for the 50th anniversary of their debut album, which was released in 1972.

2008 – Klaus Dinger of Kraftwerk and Neu! dies of heart failure at the age of 61. 2000 – Soul Coughing disbands after eight years and three albums. 1994 – Bruce Springsteen wins a best ...

(whose Klaus Dinger and Michael Rother were part of an early Kraftwerk lineup). Despite its length, the song surprisingly achieved American radio airplay, and a three-minute edit reached Number 25 ...

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