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German Electronic Music Pioneers Kraftwerk Banned From China
Kraftwerk denied China visa over 1999 Free Tibet concert
Past catches up with futuristic German electronic band after Beijing bans quartet over performance that never was
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As pop stars go, they are pretty much as inoffensive as you can get, a bunch of German pensioners who practically invented electronica with their hypnotic loops and robotic antics.
But Kraftwerk have apparently fallen foul of the Chinese authorities, not for their lyrics or their dissolute ways (the most you could ever accuse them of is eccentricity) but for something they did more than 10 years ago. A case of the past catching up with the futurists.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/mar/29/kraftwerk-denied-china-visa-tibet
Past catches up with futuristic German electronic band after Beijing bans quartet over performance that never was
Share 99
As pop stars go, they are pretty much as inoffensive as you can get, a bunch of German pensioners who practically invented electronica with their hypnotic loops and robotic antics.
But Kraftwerk have apparently fallen foul of the Chinese authorities, not for their lyrics or their dissolute ways (the most you could ever accuse them of is eccentricity) but for something they did more than 10 years ago. A case of the past catching up with the futurists.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/mar/29/kraftwerk-denied-china-visa-tibet
