Holger Czukay (born 24 March 1938) is a German musician, probably best known as a co-founder of the krautrock group Can. Biography Czukay was born in the Free City of Danzig (now Gda?sk). He studied music under Karlheinz Stockhausen from 1963 to 1966[LINK: http://www.spoonrecords.com/holger.html] Biography at Spoon Records and then worked for a while as a music teacher. Initially Czukay had little interest in rock music, but this changed when a student played him The Beatles' 1967 song "I Am The Walrus,"[LINK: http://www.czukay.de/can/publications/2.html] [1] opening his ears to music by rock experimentalists like the Velvet Underground and Frank Zappa. Czukay co-founded krautrock group Can in 1968. He played bass guitar and performed most of the recording and engineering for the group. He left Can in 1977 a few years before the group's official brea

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