La Düsseldorf

by Craig Harris Together with guitarist/keyboards player Michael Rother, with whom he had previously worked with in Kraftwerk and Neu!, German percussionist Klaus Dinger formed La Dusseldorf following the breakup of cyber-rock band, Neu!, in 1974. Applying a punk-inspired less is more drive to Neu!s minimalist pop-meets-German experimentalism, La Dusseldorf rose to the heights of Europes progressive rock scene of the late 1970s. Sales of their three albums — La Dusseldorf in 1976, Viva in 1978, and Individuellos in 1981 — totalled more than a million copies. They released a European hit single, Silver Cloud, in 1976. In the aftermath of La Dusseldorfs disbanding in 1981, Rother has sporadically surfaced, releasing solo albums — Neondian in 1985, and Die Engel Des Herm in 1993.