No, it was even earlier. It was "Autobahn" in 1976. (Wound up having a pretty full collection of Kraftwerk albums over the years. Haven't replaced them with CD's though....) I spent four years in High School and a year in college taking German classes. I don't think it was time wasted, either. Having a second (albeit not much of an international) language helped me when I lived in South America, because I already knew basics of a different language when I went to learn Portuguese.