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Hal Leonard has published a new book, The Best of The ’80s, that compiles 80’s articles from Keyboard magazine.
Description:
The editors of Keyboard magazine have culled that era’s most insightful and landmark articles and combined them with a wealth of insight looking back now some 20 years later to paint a vivid and accurate picture of [...]

 

“When Alison first approached me, I was quite flabbergasted,” said Vince Clarke. “I’m pretty much married to Andy [in Erasure], and it’s like you and an old girlfriend going out on a date. But we met and we spoke, and it’s been 25 years between then and now. A lot has gone on — mostly [...]

 

There’s a nice Flickr set of Yaz, performing at the Paramount Theater.
Let me know if you caught the show.

 

Yaz was only around for two years (82-83), but it the music it made in that short time period has had a huge impact on synth pop.
Now, Yaz is on tour for the first time in 25 years and getting good reviews:
Moyet’s deep, husky and sensual voice seems, at least on paper, an unlikely companion [...]

 

The video quality is pretty poor, but these fan videos show that Vince Clarke & Alison Moyet are staying true to their sound with their live version of their Yaz electropop classics.
Here are the remaining dates for their tour:
07 July    Oakland, CA    Paramount Theatre [sold out]
08 July    Los Angeles, CA    Orpheum Theatre
10 July    Los Angeles, [...]

 

Vince Clark, of Yazoo (Yaz), Depeche Mode & Erasure fame, is going on tour with Yaz partner Alison Moyet, and sat down with Native Instruments for a short interview that looks at the technology behind the new tour:
You are famous as a user and collector of analog synthesizers, but computers made it into your setup [...]