So Japan disbanded, just when they had the world, or certainly the UK in the palm of their hand. There was too much going on within that band for them to possibl stay together. But before they went they registered one of the truly most remarkable Top Ten singles there have ever been.
Songs like Ghosts should not really be on daytime radio or Top of the Pops on Thursday nights. they resonate too much. But there it was. And then despite their record companies desperate ploy of releasing everything in their back catalogue that might be a hit, to keep the cash tills ringing, they were gone leaving they field they'd ploughed for Duran Duran to reap an undeserved harvest over the next couple of years.
David Sylvian and the rest of the band released plenty of wonderful stuff to keep Japan fans more than happy over the coming decades, but it was a shame somehow that the original group didn't hang together somehow to release a follow up to Tin Drum. It would surely have been something else.
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