My favourite photo of Kraftwerk:
Not sure of the exact year, but obviously around the time they picked up Bartos and Flür, so probably 1975 or ’76. In any case, the spectacular unnaturalness of this picture just fills me with absolute joy. It just has this marvellous vibe that I can only describe as “we are normal human beings behaving like normal humans”. I’ve often felt their music (at least the later stuff) sounded like someone had described pop music to them, and they set out to make that sort of thing but they weren’t really successful at it, and this photo gives me a similar impression. Like, “people smile in photographs and we are smiling, we are normal… ja?”
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