Trouser Press, March 1982
Japan
Life Without Buildings
David Sylvain: We're well chuffed that you're doing a Japan flexi, but we just had a couple of small requests.
Trouser Press: OK, shoot.
DS: Right. First, could you make the disc roughly the same color as David Bowie's eye makeup in the “Life on Mars?” video?
TP: Done.
DS: Second, we'd like the track to be the almost entirely instrumental, six-plus minute long, cod-Asian, sub-Joy Division B-side to our UK single, “The Art of Parties.”
TP: No prob.
DS: Finally, we'd like it to appear in an issue that features a cover story on Abacab-era Genesis and carries a photo of Mike Rutherford, Phil Collins, and Tony Banks wearing a set of natty '80s sweaters.
TP: You're in luck!
