Ah, the '80s! A decade drenched in hairspray and carried aloft on the padded shoulders of the first wave of MTV video idols. New wave and synth-pop ruled the airwaves, and hip-hop was maturing into a ...

It's hard to imagine today, but in 1986, analogue equipment was stale and passé, yet instruments based on digital synthesis were expensive or unfathomable. Yamaha's DX7 was nicely priced but difficult ...