German experimental musician Michael Rother was born 2 September 1950 in Hamburg. Rother was in the group Spirit of Sound with
Wolfgang Riechmann and
Wolfgang Flür until 1970. For a very short time he played with
Kraftwerk, though it was in between their first two albums and he is not featured on any of their official releases. When he left Kraftwerk, he took
Klaus Dinger with him and together they formed
Neu!. Simultaneously to that band, Rother collaborated with
Hans-Joachim Roedelius and
Dieter Moebius of
Cluster in a new project called
Harmonia. In 1976 he decided to go solo, though he still toured with Moebius until 2014.