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 ...

With a dozen or so increasingly experimental albums under his own name, David Sylvian sometimes sailed in the same waters as Japan before casting off for the unknown. Highlights include ...

When David Sylvian first became ... he and his fellow travellers in the band Japan brandish the outlandish and flamboyant fashions of glam-rock, but Sylvian’s voice was clearly modelled on ...