“It’s half way between black magic and white magic, and we’re Asian musicians, so yellow is about right, no? And we liked the idea of an orchestra with only three people.” What was his role? “Oh, I was the composer and the brains. They called me the professor.” Several early hits like Technopolis and Behind the Mask (which became a hit again years later in Eric Clapton’s cover version) made the trio into stars, pursued by screaming teenage girls wherever they played.