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Yellow Magic Orchestra: No More Hiros

Betty Page, Sounds, 6 February 1982

BEFORE MAKING the obvious comments on such an album title as Neuromantic and collapsing into sarcastic guffaws, consider for a moment the man who coined that particular euphemism. Yukihiro Takahashi, percussive third of YMO, was well into combining a life of fashion designing with making new music long before the first British Noo Romantic put lace to collar.

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