[KRAFTWERK] I Was A Robot - is it any good?

[Leonard R. Cleavelin]

At 01:34 PM 8/27/2007, Best Photo wrote:
>It's a good book. It's about Kraftwerk, and drum pads and Wolfy's sex life.

And about which (the book, that is), Alexis 
Petridis still has the best comment ever made:

>I think of Wolfgang Flür's memoir, I Was A 
>Robot. Less an autobiography than an extended 
>treatise on Flür's virility, I Was A Robot 
>paints Kraftwerk not as emotionless 
>"man-machines", but shameless groupie hounds. 
>Perhaps Düsseldorf is filled with evidence of 
>their youthful indiscretions, populated by 
>children who bear a startling resemblance to 
>members of Kraftwerk. In the case of Schneider, 
>who the late rock critic Lester Bangs once 
>described as looking like a man who could push a 
>button and blow up half the world without 
>blinking, this is a disturbing thought indeed.

 From "Desperately Seeking Kraftwerk", 
<http://arts.guardian.co.uk/fridayreview/story/0,,1004937,00.html>, 
July 25, 2003.

Cheers,

LRC


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