Jaki Liebezeit obituary

Drummer and co-founder of the pioneering German krautrock band CanThe German groups of the late 1960s and 70s deliberately set out to create a form of music that owed nothing to Anglo-American rock’n’roll, and also wanted to make a decisive break from a past overshadowed by the second world war. As the drummer Jaki Liebezeit, who has died aged 78, said in the BBC Four documentary Krautrock: The Rebirth of Germany (2009): “The war was definitely finished. The old way of thinking