Tatsuro Yamashita — 山下達郎 (born Feb. 4, 1953) — is a Japanese art-pop musician and songwriter who self-released the album Add Some Music to Your Day at age 19 in 1972. Following brief stints with the bands Sugar Babe and Niagara Triangle during the mid-1970s, he released three albums and a live disc on RCA between 1976 and 1979, followed by four albums on Air Records up to 1982. During the subsequent three decades, he released 12 further solo albums on Moon Records.
Discography:
- Add Some Music to Your Day (1972)
- Circus Town (1976)
- Spacy (1977)
- Pacific (1978 • Haruomi Hosono / Shigeru Suzuki / Tatsuro Yamashita)
- Go Ahead! (1978 • Tatsu Yamashita)
- It’s a Poppin’ Time (2LP live, 1978)
- Moonglow (1979 • Tatsu Yamashita)
- Ride on Time (1980)
- On the Street Corner (1980 • Tats Yamashita)
- For You (1982)
- Melodies (1983 • Tatsuro Yamashita)
- Big Wave (OST, 1984)
- Pocket Music (1986)
- On the Street Corner 2 (1986 • Tats Yamashita)
- 僕の中の少年 (Boku no Naka no Shounen) (1988)
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