It’s not given to many musicians to change the course of popular music, but Kraftwerk certainly did. While not inventing electronic music (Delia Derbyshire and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop did that) they were the first to consider it as a new form of popular music. Sadly, founding member Florian Schneider died late last month.

I first heard of Kraftwerk in that famous Tomorrow’s World piece. At the time I thought their sound was a little soulless and wouldn’t catch on. It did.

Kraftwerk: Tour de France

Florian Schneider (Florian Schneider-Esleben:) 7/4/1947 – 21/3/2020. So it goes.

So after all the shocks, Federer and Nadal losing early etc, etc, the men’s final was still contested between the top two seeds. Might as well not have bothered with the fortnight really.

But today arguably came the biggest shock.

A British man won the Wimbledon singles. A Scottish man won the Wimbledon singles.

It was a most unScottish performance; not in its doggedness and resilience, but in its failure to fail; his refusal not to win.

Well done Andy Murray. (And to Novak Djokovic, who had to be beaten and did not lie down.)

Andy had the great misfortune last year to be the first British man to win a Grand Slam since 1936 or so – yet it wasn’t the outstanding British sporting achievement of the year. How could it have outshone a first ever British win in the Tour de France?

Andy must be a shoo-in for Sports Personality of the Year this time, though.