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"Behind the Mask" is a synthpop song by electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra, written by member Ryuichi Sakamoto and first produced in 1978 for a Seiko commercial.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Discogs )〕 It was later released in 1979 as part of the band's ''Solid State Survivor'' album with English lyrics added by Chris Mosdell. The song has been performed by many artists since its original release. In the early 1980s, Michael Jackson wrote additional lyrics for the song with an accompanying melody; this version has been recorded by himself, Greg Phillinganes, Eric Clapton, and Ryuichi Sakamoto (as a solo artist), among others. == Yellow Magic Orchestra version == "Behind the Mask" was a track from Yellow Magic Orchestra's 1979 album ''Solid State Survivor'', with English lyrics by Chris Mosdell sung by Ryuichi Sakamoto using a vocoder. Sakamoto already had the melody line when he asked poet and lyricist Mosdell to write lyrics, which he based on the imagery of a Japanese traditional Noh mask, combined with a poem by Irish poet W.B. Yeats called, "The Mask." Mosdell has said of the lyrics that "I was talking about a very impersonal, socially controlled society, a future technological era, and the mask represented that immobile, unemotional state." It was the first studio recording of this song, although the band had originally produced it as an instrumental in 1978, when the song first appeared in a Seiko quartz wristwatch commercial〔 and was then played live in concert that same year. In 1980, the song was released as a single in the UK with the B-side as "Yellow Magic (Tong Poo)",〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Yellow Magic Orchestra: Behind the Mask )〕 and it was included in the US and European versions of the band's next studio album ''x∞Multiplies'' that same year. Following the break-up of Yellow Magic Orchestra in 1983, the band's former keyboardist and the writer of the song, Ryuichi Sakamoto, re-recorded it in 1987 with Michael Jackson's additional lyrics and lead vocals by Bernard Fowler. A similar arrangement was performed (with Fowler) in Sakamoto's "Media Bahn Live" tour the previous year. A CD single with 3 tracks 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ryuichi Sakamoto - Behind the Mask )〕 and a CD maxi with 6 tracks entitled "Behind the Mask +3" were released.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Ryuichi Sakamoto - Behind the Mask 3+ )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Behind the Mask+3: 坂本龍一 - 音楽 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Behind the Mask (Yellow Magic Orchestra song)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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