デヴィッド・ボウイさんのインスタグラム写真 - (デヴィッド・ボウイInstagram)「BOWIE ON KRAFTWERK AND HIS FLORIAN TRIBUTE “From station to station, back to Düsseldorf City, Meet Iggy Pop and David Bowie...” You've no doubt heard the sad news regarding the passing of Kraftwerk co-founder, Florian Schneider, aged 73. Schneider formed Kraftwerk with Ralf Hütter in 1970, and remained a member until his departure in 2008. He is pictured bottom left in our montage at Düsseldorf Hbf station with the rest of the band. In a Kraftwerk feature for MOJO magazine Ralf Hütter responded to the question: “How important was David Bowie's infatuation with you?”, thus: “That was very important for us, because it linked what we were doing with the rock mainstream. Bowie used to tell everyone that we were his favourite group, and in the mid-'70s the rock press used to hang on every word from his mouth. We met him when he played Düsseldorf (April 1976) on one of his first European tours. He was travelling by Mercedes, listening to nothing but Autobahn all the time.” In 1978 Bowie recalled the meeting: “I like them as people very much, Florian in particular. Very dry. When I go to Düsseldorf they take me to cake shops, and we have huge pastries. They wear their suits. I got myself a Mercedes to drive myself around in, cause I still wasn’t flying at that time, and Florian saw it... He said, “What a wonderful car”, and I said, “Yes, it used to belong to some Iranian prince, and he was assassinated and the car went on the market, and I got it for the tour.” And Florian said, “Ja, car always lasts longer.” With him it all has that edge. His whole cold emotion/warm emotion, I responded to that. Folk music of the factories.” Kraftwerk immortalised the Düsseldorf meeting on the title track of the band’s 1977 album, Trans-Europe Express (see today’s lyric quotation), even including a shot of David and Iggy in the original video for the single. David returned the compliment later the same year on the "Heroes" album, when he paid Florian the ultimate tribute by using his name for the title of V-2 Schneider. Bowie spoke in some depth about Kraftwerk in a later UNCUT interview, the full unedited version was published on ‪DavidBowie.com‬. (Temp link in bio)」5月7日 7時59分