- In 1972, he stopped this hectic lifestyle. In the basement of his house he built a Sound Studio. Since then, he was musician and sound engineer - all rolled into one.
- Wunderlich also used a small Moog synthesizer Minimoog to replicate the sound of the Bass guitar on his recordings as well as in the latter half of his career playing the drums and percussion on his recordings.
- He sold more than 20 million records globally, and received 13 golden albums as well as one golden cassette.
- Klaus was seven years of age when he received his first piano. A few years were sufficient for him to grasp the basics .
- With the introduction of the first synthesizers, Wunderlich briefly used Moog synthesizer and produced three albums with the instrument. He later combined the sound of a Hammond organ model H 100 with a Lowrey Organ Model H25-3 and Wersi model W248S which was called the "New Pop Organ Sound".
- From 1978 to 1995 he made seven tours of the UK which were organised by Kennedy Street Enterprises playing to packed theatres on every occasion, they included the London Albert Hall (17th April 1978), London Royal Festival Hall (8th March 1984) and the London Palladium (19th October 1986). There were 159 concerts in total.
- He has something of a cult following, and pops up from time to time in the playlists of contemporary DJs.
- In 1988, Wunderlich decided to part company with the Wersi Helios and Beta and purchased a new organ to replace both older models, the Wersi Spectra.
- In October 1985 he spent a week at the Caister Keyboard Cavalcade Festival with over 1,000 music enthusiasts.
- Some of his work was incorporated into the Soviet cartoon, Nu Pogodi.
- Over the years his recordings have been sampled by a number of other artists. One of the most notable and unusual is the use of multiple elements, including the distinctive organ from his version of the Lynsey de Paul song "Sugar Me" that was sampled by Guru (rapper) on track 5 on his 2000 album "Jazzmatazz Vol. 3: Streetsoul" called "Certified" performed by Bilal (American singer).
- Klaus Wunderlich was open to different music styles and played classical, operetta, Broadway musical, as well as popular music.
- Klaus Wundelich was the first performer to use electronic organs in the German-speaking world.
- He played the Hammond organ during the first half of his career, and later switched to Wersi organs and Moog synthesizers with which he created his own unique electronic sound.
- In 2017 a documentary film about Klaus Wunderlich was released by Duke Denver Film IVS called Wunderlich. The year after a sequel was released called Wunderlich Stories.
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