PROPAGANDA
THE GERMAN SYNTH-POP COMBO – RALF DÖRPER, ANDREAS THEIN, SUSANNE FREYTAG AND, LATER, CLAUDIA BRÜCKEN AND MICHAEL MERTENS, WERE THE SECOND BAND TO JOIN ZTT. JOURNALIST CHRIS BOHN, WHO WORKED AT THE NME, HAD CHAMPIONED THE BAND’S MUSIC TO PAUL MORLEY AND THEY WERE SIGNED IN 1983.
“It was such a bold move,” says Propaganda’s keyboard player, Ralf Dörper, when asked about the creation of ZTT. “Paul [Morley] and Trevor [Horn] going into battle with such a unique bunch of acts – afaceless band [Art Of Noise], partly gay rockers [Frankie Goes To Hollywood] and us, the serious Huns.”