‘Opus’ Teaser Trailer: Ryuichi Sakamoto’s Son Crafts An Elegy Concert Doc For His Legendary Composer & Musician Father
theplaylist.netLegendary musician and composer Ryuichi Sakamoto died in March 2023 of cancer at the age of 71 and much of the world mourned.
While perhaps not the most famous musician/composer on earth, the Japanese musician was a musical icon nonetheless. Sakamoto started his career as a member of Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO), a late 1970s electronic band that is often overshadowed by Kraftwerk as the pioneers of electronic pop, but was still instrumental in helping the genre explode given the way the sound would take off in the 1980s with the electro-driven British New Wave of pop (OMD, Japan, Depeche Mode, Ultravox, Bronski Beat, etc).
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