They formed Kraftwerk in 1970; the name is the German word for “power plant.” After making three all-instrumental albums, they decided to move in a more pop direction, which meant singing.

But that was just secondary to how beautiful the songs were.” Kraftwerk, too, sits in the pantheon of perfect band names. German for ‘power plant’, founding members Florian Schneider and Ralf Hütter ...

Having landed more than a dozen hits – “Midnight Blue,” “Don’t Cry Out Loud,” “You Should Hear How She Talks About You,” and “Through the Eyes of Love” among them – on the ...