Japan
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Report and Interview by Geoff Barton, Sounds, 25 November 1978
JAPAN OUTPOSED IN NEW YORK CITY AS WITNESSED BY GEOFF BARTON ...
Japan, the Regulars: Rainbow Theatre, London
Live Review by David Hepworth, Sounds, 28 April 1979
Hype springs eternal ...
Japan: Ryerson Theatre, Toronto
Live Review by Rosalind Russell, Record Mirror, 5 January 1980
WEST OF JAPAN ...
Japan: Quiet Life (Ariola AHAL 8010)****
Review by Geoff Barton, Sounds, 12 January 1980
Glitter for industry ...
Live Review by Geoff Barton, Sounds, 9 February 1980
Plenty good posin' ...
Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 16 February 1980
Are Japan just a bunch of pretty boy remnants of glamrock. Or do they know something that the rest of rock 'n' roll is yet ...
Japan: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 30 May 1981
Heaven must have scent you ...
Interview by Betty Page, Sounds, 6 June 1981
LIFE WITHIN buildings: being shut in a dimly-lit, secluded studio with David Sylvian. Sounds like a scenario straight out of a Nipponese schoolgirl's fantasy, but ...
Interview by Dave Rimmer, Smash Hits, 29 October 1981
David Sylvian and Mick Karn stretch out on the sofa and enjoy their new-found British success. Budge up, says Dave Rimmer ...
Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 21 November 1981
Once upon a record there was a wonderful land where nothing nasty happened and sad beautiful boys lived... ...
David Sylvian: Melancholy Baby
Interview by Ian Penman, New Musical Express, 2 January 1982
MELANCHOLY PROPS up his head and whispers, half to himself and half to me... ...
Japan: Say Hello, Wave Goodbye?
Interview by Ian Birch, Smash Hits, 4 February 1982
"I don't know how long the break's going to be," says David Sylvian. "Maybe three months or four or longer." Japan make plans. Ian Birch ...
Human League: Dare (A&M); Japan: Japan (Virgin/Epic)
Review by J.D. Considine, Musician, June 1982
CONTRARY TO popular belief, all synthesizer bands are not unlistenable. True, many do sound rather like the result of an infinite number of silicon chips ...
Report and Interview by J.D. Considine, Musician, August 1982
Music Without Musicians...But Not Without Craftsmanship and Great Songs ...
David Sylvian: Journeys Into The Interior
Profile and Interview by Biba Kopf, New Musical Express, 11 August 1984
FOR ONE who seems so still David Sylvian is constantly on the move. ...
Japan: Exorcising Ghosts (Virgin)
Review by Richard Cook, New Musical Express, 1 December 1984
THIS WAS, after all, one of the stranger groups of musicians who went the route of pop's long march. ...
Retrospective and Interview by Sylvie Simmons, MOJO, April 1999
He was the sensitive soul who fronted south London’s dodgiest glam-rockers, the World’s Most Lovely Man who chose tortured sainthood, pop’s preening popinjay who reinvented ...
Various Artists: Dawn Of Electronica
Review by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, July 2000
Founding fathers of technopop come together in electro land ...
David Sylvian: Everything And Nothing
Review by Ian Penman, Uncut, November 2000
COLLECTED OUEVRE of Japan's finest ...
David Sylvian: Whatever Happened to the World's Most Beautiful Man?
Profile and Interview by Chris Roberts, Uncut, October 2003
So, David Sylvian, you live halfway up a mountain in New England? "That's the way it is", laughs the singer (and yes, he does laugh. Asked ...
see also David Sylvian
see also Mick Karn
see also Rain Tree Crow
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