Travis Elborough recalls how the Japan frontman’s startling debut solo single ‘Red Guitar’ stood out among the rest of 1980s pop, and how his teenage love of David Sylvian introduced him to worlds beyond his everyday
That my hair at the front still flops down over my eyes gives, I think, some indication of the continuing after effects of encountering David Sylvian at an impressionable age. Or perhaps more accurately at an age when pop music was largely all the impressionable adolescent had with which to shape an identity of their own. At a time, too, when information about it was more often conveyed to me through promotional appearances and videos on kids TV shows and the glossy full-colour pages of…
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