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Japan
Beginning life as pouting, fun time glam rockers, the South London lads Japan
helped carve out a template for the New Romantic scene and experimented with an
eclectic range of sounds and styles that brightened up the post-punk years
previously dominated by strident guitars. Thanks to their name (casually picked
out of a hat) the band quickly built a large following in the country of Japan,
but it wasn't until they adopted a more electronic, synth-driven sound on third
album Quiet Life (1979) that Britain took any notice. The glamorous, outsider
pop of Gentlemen Take Polaroids (19...
