Kraftwerk - Autobahn • TopPop

May 6, 2020.
Florian Schneider of German electronic band Kraftwerk has died, Billboard has confirmed. He was 73.
In a statement, Kraftwerk co-founder Ralf Hütter confirms "the very sad news that his friend and companion over many decades Florian Schneider has passed away from a short cancer disease just a few days after his 73rd birthday."
Florian Schneider-Esleben (7 April 1947 - 6 May 2020) was part of Kraftwerk until his departure in November 2008.
Kraftwerk is a German band formed in Düsseldorf in 1970 by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider. Widely considered as innovators and pioneers of electronic music, they were among the first successful acts to popularize the genre.
The group began as part of West Germany's experimental krautrock scene in the early 1970s before fully embracing electronic instrumentation, including synthesizers, drum machines, and vocoders.
‘Autobahn’ their biggest hit reached #12 in the Dutch Top 40 on 19 July 1975.
This especially created Toppop videoclip was first broadcast on Toppop on 4 July 1975.
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Broadcast date: 4 July 1975
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The performance of the artist(s) in the clip was filmed and recorded with the written consent of the artist(s) and their representatives.
AVROTROS is a Dutch radio and television broadcaster, founded in 2014 from a merger of AVRO and TROS. From January 1st, 2014 the name of the merged broadcaster was used in joint programmes. AVRO was founded in 1923 as the Netherlands first public broadcaster. TROS started broadcasting in 1964. Toppop was a weekly AVRO pop program that was aired between 1970 and 1988.
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TopPop was the first regular dedicated pop music TV show in the Dutch language area. Dutch broadcaster AVRO aired the programme weekly, from 1970 to 1988. Presenter Ad Visser hosted the show for its first fifteen years.
World famous music artists performed on TopPop: ABBA, 10CC, Bee Gees, The Jacksons with Michael Jackson, David Bowie, Earth & Fire, Queen, Golden Earring, Boney M, KC & The Sunshine Band, Chic, Donna Summer and many many more.

[@worldwidebear1967]

RIP Florian Schneider and "Thank you for the Music"

[@alexbradbury9522]

😔😩

[@stevevanzandt6784]

🥳 woo-hoo

[@piotrk73]

Florian Schneider R.I.P

[@manofwealthandtaste136]

I'm glad the Autobahn is German- I'm sure the British version would be 'We're stuck stuck stuck in the traffic jam'.

[@rumpraisin]

And the B-side would be called Road Rage.

[@IROCMAN666]

In France, it is the same in holidays period.

[@FerryXtheMercy]

Man of Wealth and Taste Well, the word Autobahn is German, but strangely most (if not all) of the roads and cars in this video are actually Dutch 😯 And pretty congested as well these days, to put it mildly...

[@al-Iskandar]

@@FerryXtheMercy the video was made by the dutch television

[@A-ProductionsYT]

@@rumpraisin Or maybe “Drive in the Heavy Rain”.

[@gossolon4113]

RIP... Mr. Schneider. We miss you.

[@geoffolehane]

I love the full version but it was fun to hear this single version from time to time in the 1970's. Most of the radio stations I listened to in those days would use it to time into their top of the hour news so they could fade it out.

[@sacrebleuwhataworld]

I was just a kid at the time, but if you were in Germany in the 70-80s, this was on your cassette mixtape for your epic road trip :D

[@HawkeyeBerlin]

Absoluter Klassiker!!!

[@jrg7951]

I first heard this song in 1974 when it came out.

[@donr.balken9892]

Ruhe in Frieden Florian

[@hansvegt9937]

What a wonderful modern song for those days (1974). And such a beautiful and advanced clip. And nice to see that it seems to have been shot in the Netherlands, at least partially. Also funny how you can see the Dutch word "remkabels" on the roof of that farm in the early stage of the clip.

[@baakdimtri8385]

This farm is located on the a13 to rotterdam

[@murellevendramin1150]

Merci pour votre retour cordialement 👍💐🤩

[@Brinta3]

This was just before “promotional videos” became a thing. I’m guessing the Dutch Top Pop made this video themselves (maybe from stock footage) and that it wasn’t meant to ever be shown to an international audience.

[@Audiogeek-kf2ez]

These guys are the vest if early Techno. Still listen to the long version all the time

[@wandydeoli5780]

R.I.P Florian

[@hendrikdebruin4012]

It is so great to see real automobiles and not the "all look the same" things we see today.

[@Tieper]

Dit is ultragaaf. Wat leuk dat Toppop toen een eigen clip maakte, op een Nederlandse autobaan. Vooral genieten van die jaren zeventig auto's

[@slantsix6344]

First heard this song in 1974

[@dannyvalentine468]

The amount of work it must've taken to take a 22 min song and make it 3 mins especially with the tape technology of the time blows me away

[@DaniRocksaurier]

Kult vom Feinsten 🏅

[@eartvj]

Rest in Peace Florian

[@ericstcroix529]

I love you j'aime beaucoup cette chanson ce groupe a révolutionné la musique et je suis vraiment Fan depuis 1974 et pour moi c'est génial et je vous remercie d'avance pour cela a+😍❤️💋💓💕😘👍💪

[@astridolearczyk8510]

Unser Musiklehrer hat die Scheibe aufgelegt. Er war ein totaler Freak, ich und viele andere waren happy! Er war ein Gewinn für unsere Schule damals

[@Tubant1970]

Aufgenommen in der Niederlande ( 1974 ).

[@toppop]

On the Dutch Autobahn in July 1975

[@brodusclay2012]

Mooie auto's kijken, vroeger een bandje van deze band, kan er nog steeds van genieten

[@jey-keystone6249]

Это просто прекрасно!

[@AALONSO1962]

Thanks In Advance...!!! ;)

[@murellevendramin1150]

J ai connu tard ce.groupe et cette musique différente... merci a mon ami Alex

[@sjon0]

Epic tune..

[@sanderkort3694]

kinda funny how this is filmed in the netherlands

[@MurgenTemplar]

Toppop was a Dutch program, makes sense when the artists could not come for a clip.

[@kattenbroekcom]

im actually from holland...but the Netherlands are similair to the german language yess is ja in dutch and yess is ja in germany

[@EclecticoIconoclasta]

Are you sure dude? What a farce! Worst video ever

[@desertrose1226]

Another Great One Gone.

[@magoperez5045]

Años buscando está melodía y por fin la encontré en pleno 2019

[@guenni2052]

También hay una versión LP con una duración de 21 minutos.

[@fvdp4710]

A27 between Hilversum and Utrecht. Lol

[@robvanhouten]

A12 ook bij Bunnik

[@Teacher-lj6in]

Fun fun fun...great electro sounds--Jean Michel Jarre must have taken notes when he heard this lot. ...

[@emersoncordeiro4665]

Essa é a Alemanha que todo alemão oriental sonhava em viver.

[@guenni2052]

Da war die Welt noch in Ordnung

[@stevepettit2064]

god in one week we lose two pioneers in the art of keyboarding florian and dave greenfield from the stranglers huge fan of both groups upsets me but deep down i know music these created will live on people die music never does.

[@openbaarvervoernl9589]

Het typische Nederlandse wegennet in de jaren '80, nice!

[@GrijzePilion]

Jaren '70.

[@SWRWOLF]

nl

[@RPNization]

@@GrijzePilion Inderdaad de jaren 70 👍

[@murellevendramin1150]

Danke schoen auch 🤟💋💋❤️ merci beaucoup pour votre aide Murielle

[@Gaston4m]

❤️❤️❤️

[@uyauabing]

TopPop being Dutch, what we're seeing here are 1975 footage of the Dutch Autobaan...

[@ajwilmink9111]

uyauabing snelweg

[@manugahan1863]

R.I.P Florian....!! Thank You Kraftwerk !!! By DepecheModiano....!!!!

[@Audiogeek-kf2ez]

AM radio Version the Album version is like 18. Minutes

[@wandydeoli5780]

Oh good

[@rogerhoward7498]

It's very interesting...most popular culture would accept that the Rock Group 'Queen' would have been the group that came out with the first kind of official music video in 1975, for their song 'Bohemian Rhapsody', even though as an art-form, the music video was not truly recognised for its artistic visual concepts till 4 years later in the age of the new wave, post-punk music genre. in fact in 1975, they were still using the term 'Music Promo'. For Europe, (Continental Europe in 1975) the situation of the visual of the music promo would have been different, to the way the United Kingdom made music promos. I am using that term because in 1975, this term was still being used. The Group 'ABBA' (in Sweden) were making music promos (even before 1975) that were in the artistic realms of what we today, would recognise as the music video. It was the same with Kraftwerk in Germany. The Autobahn music promo was made in 1975 and it really can be called a 'music video', because it is edited that way. Kraftwerk as a group are not seen in the Autobahn music video (I think its safe to use that term now for this purpose). All you see is the movement (through a moving vehicle) of the German Motorways and sign posts of the German motorway. What is incredible is that the visual image itself is very clean and modern-contemporary. There is NOTHING in the 'Autobahn' music video that seems 'old fashioned'. So this particular music video is way-ahead of its time in terms of its visual image concept. The autobahn music video has the visual dimensions of the new-wave, post-punk visual image, way before that actual term was even used for music and the visual image of music. Kraftwerk were all about modernism. They naturally had a modern sound with the synthesizer, they had a modern outlook as a group and naturally the visual image would be modern. With the 'Autobahn' music video, they are probably the first group to have EVER released a music video that was way-ahead of its time, that was COMPLETELY Modern and Contemporary.

[@apie74]

Roger Howard well said!

[@FerryXtheMercy]

Roger Howard Interesting story, but if this really is the video you're refering to then you're absolutely wrong about at least the 'German' motorways bit. All the highways and roadsigns in this video are clearly recognizable as Dutch. Getting that so utterly wrong raises serious doubts about the other 'facts' in your (not so) little tale too...

[@xsc1000]

I think it's just clip made by Avro like all other videos in TopPop channel. It's not Kraftwerk music video.

[@robertbelchick8263]

What about The Who, their manager Kit Lambert was an art director. So around 1965 or 66, they've made a fee music "promos" to cater to the music. Like The Kids are Alright, and Happy Jack.

[@rogerhoward7498]

@@robertbelchick8263 Thanks for replying. What constitutes as a music video are the visual reflections that are going on in the 'visual frame' of the photographic image in music video. So things such as what the musician is actually doing in the visual frame, especially in relation to an ' acting ' persona of character. Other things.. such as how the musician is photographed ,and how the visual image is moving because of how the camera is moving for music video is also important here. There would be more movement than you would see in the 'music promo'. I had to memorize myself again for the Who videos, so i watched them again on KZbin. For the Kids are alright music promo...I did look at this and think to myself this is just a visual ' music promo ' of the mid 1960's period, BUT...further along...something very interesting happened...THE KIDS could be seen. Its all in the title of this song, of course Kit would film children. There has been an attempt here NOT just to make a music promo, but to make a visual film, as you would for music video. There is also an attempt by Kit Lambert to make a visual in style of documentary ' Cinema Verite' and the Way the Who are shown performing in the park with visual movement in camera and the children of the mid 1960's shown in the promo is very similar to cinema verite. The kids are alright promo also reminded me of the way the children were visualized in the Madness music video for their single ' Baggy Trousers' and I mean in the natralness of how you visually film children in the mid- 1960's period. I think it would be a very fair assumption for these times we are living in, to call Kitt Lambert's promo for the Who's Kids are Alright as a music video. There were two visuals to the Who's Happy Jack single on KZbin, that I thought were more appropriate for analysis of being a music video. The first was a performance from The Television music programme Beat Club, which cannot really be called a music video, it is just a music television performance of the who performing the song on television, BUT ....i would say this with a caution, because in odd moments of this performance you can see the group breaking down the rules of visual performance, being naughty and rebellious, certainly not going with the normal conventions of mid- 1960's music television performance. In fact...there could be a it of Mod rebellion at play here. I would say that although this cannot be wholly seen as a music video...its influence could certainly be reflected for rock musicians who star in their music videos today. The other visual for Happy Jack is an animation for the song which is very similar in style to the visual songs on the Beatles Film : Yellow Sumbarine. This visual today can certainly be classified as a music video. For another example ( one year from October 1966) is the music promo for The Rolling Stones song ' Have You Seen Your Mother Lately( Standing in the shadows). You can naturally see the Stones performing the song on the stage at one of their gigs, but an attempt has been made to continually show fans sabotaging the stage, to interrupt the Stones natural show performance. In here are the natural ingredients of today's Rock Show Performance music video.

[@emersoncordeiro4665]

Alemanha...um país que investi no cidadão.

[@andrewbennett7756]

Nice to see proper car and trucks no plastic sheds proper steel cars and dumb engine management system wre you could service on your drive on a Sunday morning going Halfords and a bag ful of parts

[@murellevendramin1150]

Personne aime beaucoup.... Dommage 👍❤️💐🤩

[@angelacurtis1479]

Cood song angela

[@davidpoulton2860]

Yes I have given up driving after 42 years are UK road are full and lots of jams

[@robertwoodroffe123]

Yea woall

[@bertschaap4652]

Dit nummer werd in Nederland beroemd door Anna van Egmond op zondagmorgen bij de KRO

[@Soundofsilver2007]

Industrial folk music

[@emersoncordeiro4665]

Tem algum BR aí?

[@Cosmetic_Astro]

Just to tell everyone in the 70’s and below the road lines were not straight they where kinda crooked

[@masterjake731]

MOTORWAY in english

[@LeoPriscott]

AUTOBAHN

[@sjon0]

1974....when everyone was driving the Autobahn and climate change didn't exist...

[@AntoineVanGeyseghem]

🚗

[@andrewbennett7756]

I take it no U L E Z in grmany❤😂

[@robvanhouten]

Bunnik

[@Sassenhaim]

Hahahaha this is shot in the Netherlands 🤣🤣🤣

[@ptttelepost8814]

gekke duitsers.

[@_1.9.7.4]

Temazo, tranquilamente le aurruina la carrera a un reggeatonero mediocre

[@whk759]

C'est l'époque où l'Allemagne était l'Allemagne, la France, la France, l'Italie, l'Italie, etc et non cette 💩 d'Europe des bureaucrates de Bruxelles où tous les pays se ressemblent... 🤬

[@michaelparra2134]

Its sad that they end up being nihilist and kidnapping Bunny Lebowski

[@twisk2010]

I'm 40 yrs old and refuse to drive.

[@desertrose1226]

Same. Not yet 40 but won’t drive due to so many dickheads on the road & accidents

[@twisk2010]

@@desertrose1226 I hear ya. Too dangerous

[@gerbenfeenstra]

I understand this is (was) a famous and successful group, but I'm not at all impressed by this track.

[@mannytabletje4678]

We are not inpressed by your stupid comment !!!