Forty years ago, armed with tape, scissors and a hefty dose of wit, Yello – aka Boris Blank, Dieter Meier and, initially, Carlos Perón – set out to write their very own chapter of music history. In no time at all they found themselves playing The Roxy club in New York, marveling at the seething sea of bodies dancing themselves into ecstasy to the beat of Yello’s seminal single Bostich. Today, thanks to albums like 'Solid Pleasure', You 'Gotta Say Yes To Another Excess' and 'Flag', and singles like Oh, Yeah and The Race, Yello are enshrined amongst the pantheon of electropop pioneers. Blank and Meier recently released their 14th studio album, 'Point', proving once again that age is no obstacle to musical daring and adventure.For Oh Yeah / Yello 40, the two artists dug deep into their souvenir boxes to come up with an intriguing haul of Polaroids, posters, letters, fanzine reviews, sketches, pictures of their trip to Cuba – and even the handwritten sheet music to Bostich. Oh Yeah / Yello 40 is more than a scrapbook from the days when we were all young. The book harks back to the gleefully playful zeitgeist of the post-punk era in a city which, as only fools may have forgotten, was the cradle of Dada.— Hanspeter 'Düsi' Kuenzler450 pages, 29.7 × 21 cm, hardcover, Edition Patrick Frey (Zurich).
