t’s December 1974 and silence reigns inside Conny Plank’s studio in Cologne. Michael Rother and Klaus Dinger – the duo who comprise Neu! – are locked in a battle of wills. They’ve been sitting here for five or six hours now, with neither prepared to give in. They’re midway through sessions for their third album, , and Rother is aggrieved that Dinger has reneged on a deal they’d struck beforehand. “Klaus had suggested we record the album with two drummers: Thomas Dinger and Hans Lampe,” explains guitarist Rother. “But I only wanted to record with just him and me. So we made a compromise – one side as a duo, the other side with the four of us. We started with the two drummers, then halfway through, when it came time to switch, Klaus didn’t want to stick to the agreement. Of course, I wasn’t happy about this, so we sat there for half a day, not
