Kraftwerk - "The Telephone Call" (1987)


Wikipedia - "'The Telephone Call' (German: 'Der Telefon-Anruf') is a 1987 single by German techno group Kraftwerk, on the 1986 album Electric Café. 'The Telephone Call' was number one on the dance charts for two weeks, and was the second single that Kraftwerk took to number one in four months. ... The song's music video features each member of the band answering a telephone (Ralf Hutter's being a combination of a telephone and a synthesiser). None of the band members are seen singing the song in the video except for a silhouette Karl Bartos, but when the camera pans around it is revealed to in fact be Wolfgang Flur. He is also seen at a typewriter typing 'You're so close, but far away'. At several other points in the video, various other iconic images are seen including a dangling phone on a wire and an eye staring through a hole in a wall, the latter appearing for only one second in the video. The images give the video an unsettling feeling."
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YouTube: The Telephone Call, The Telephone Call (long version)

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