THE SUNDAY CORRESPONDENTS

It was with great sadness that I read early in the New Year that Mick Karn had succumbed to cancer.I first saw Japan on the 28th April 1978 supporting Blue Oyster Cult on my one and only visit to Glasgow’s legendary Apollo Theatre. It was my first visit to a real concert, I had previously bought a ticket to see Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel at Edinburgh’s Playhouse Theatre, years before, but I hadn’t been allowed to go by my “bastard” of a father, who thought I was too young to be all...

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