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2nd September 1950 |
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Hamburg, Germany |
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Michael Rother is a guitarist, bassist, and keyboard player whose most notable contribution to rock history is having co-founded the German group Neu!.
Born in 1950, Rother went to school in Munich, Wilmslow (England), Karachi, and Düsseldorf. From 1965 he played in the band Spirits of Sound, from which other members would later go on to join Kraftwerk and Wunderbar. In 1971, he was briefly a member of Kraftwerk; he appears on the pioneering electronic music group's live DVD, Beat Club.
From 1971 to 1975, Rother played guitar, bass, and keyboards in Neu! with drummer Klaus Dinger. Neu! contributed to the creation of the musical genre Motorik. "Hallogallo," a track from the band's debut album, is considered a classic and has since been reworked by other artists including System 7.
In the late 1970s, Rother worked with Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius in Harmonia (also known as Harmonia 76), and issued three LPs under his own name: Flammende Herzen (1977), Sterntaler (1978), and Katzenmusik (1979).
In the early 1980s, Rother issued three more LPs under his own name: Fernwaerme (1982), Lust (1983), and Süssherz und Tiefenschaerfe (1983). The mid-1980s brought an abortive attempt at a fourth Neu! album, and a seventh solo album, Traumreisen (1987).
Long considered one of the founding fathers of "Krautrock", Rother has been so influential that Death in Vegas named one of the tracks on their 2004 album Satan's Circus "Sons of Rother" in homage to him.
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