“He wrote, ‘Eat more shit – 100,000 flies can’t be wrong.’ He hated us”: German prog icon was regarded with suspicion by other artists, the target of vegetables at concerts, and witness to a label boss jumping out a window to escape his band

To most ears, the music of Tangerine Dream seemed as forbiddingly foreign as it was unfathomable. He was intrigued by what he called this “rotten religious music.” Froese and Dalí became friends for a time, though their artistic and political beliefs weren’t always mutually sympathetic. Did Tangerine Dream feel part of all that? There wasn’t much hanging out at all.”Froese suggests that, even among the marginal ‘Krautrock’ clique, Tangerine Dream were outsiders. Tangerine Dream would later incorporate laser projections and the odd burst of pyrotechnics into their shows; but their early 70s audiences were often baffled by improvised musical excursions into anti-rock.