The Vapors - Turning Japanese (1980)
This clip is from BBC Top Of The Pops in March 1980, and the band is introduced by a very English-looking DJ Steve Wright - check out the striped jacket!
It
seems that anyone who pens a song about the Japanese only manages to
get a one hit wonder! This song came out in 1980 (before Aneka's
Japanese Boy) and reached No.3 in the UK singles chart.
Taken
from the album "New Clear Days", the song's lyrics mainly
consist of the singer talking about pictures of his lover on the wall of
his prison cell. The term "turning Japanese" is controversial, as it
apparently refers to the face a man pulls whilst pleasuring himself!
