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Japan achieved success in the late 1970s and early 1980s, releasing nine UK top 40 hits, including the 1982 top 5 hit single "Ghosts", and scoring a UK top 5 with the live album Oil on Canvas (1983). Six of the band's albums have achieved Gold status in the UK.
Oil On Canvas is a live album by the English band Japan, released in June 1983, six months after the band had broken up. It became their highest charting album in the UK, peaking at number 5: Japan (national chart, 11), No. 1 on the overseas artists chart.
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The discography of British art pop / new wave band Japan, including their reformation as Rain Tree Crow, consists of 6 studio albums, 17 compilations albums, 1 live album, and 4 video releases.
Jul 19, 2013 · Oil On Canvas, as a performance, enhances the status of Japan’s music as the most perfectly-realised combination of east and west inside a pop format. It’s no wonder the band, and Sylvian in his solo career, would work so much with the likes of Ryuichi Sakamoto, Yukihiro Takahashi and Tsuchiya.
The classic concert in HD. Pleased to make this work available for the next generation of artists! Hammersmith Odeon London UK 1983~ Fall in Love again with ...
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Oil on Canvas is the first, last and only full-length live album by British new wave band Japan. Originally recorded at the Hammersmith Odeon in London in November 1982, this double LP was...
