Kraftwerk's first recorded concert was in 1970, according to this YouTube page. Here they are, decades before their time, awakening an audience whose reaction to the German electronic band runs the gamut from boredom, befuddlement and suspicion to grooving delight and rapturous laughter.
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Nov 29, 2017
Watch this 1970 audience as Kraftwerk plays in their first recorded concert video
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