From Duran Duran to Van Halen to Whitney Houston, '80s acts used the latest electronics to give pop music a futuristic sheen that still coats today's Gaga- and Pitbull-dominated charts. Most Western ...
YMO—Yellow Magic Orchestra—was the most popular Japanese pop band in the 1980s. Not only were they huge in Japan, but also in Europe and the U.S. The band—Ryuichi Sakamoto on keyboards and vocals, ...