Man, is Sky one of the more obscure kayo acts that I've had to investigate! I had to scrounge around the various sites and images on Yahoo.jp, and J-Wiki had very little to offer on even one of the two men that made up this duo. Eizo Kitazawa（北沢英三）and Takashi Morimoto（森本隆）were the very well-coiffed two here with Morimoto having the lone J-Wiki entry. That entry is plenty sparse, too, with it stating just that he was born in Hyogo Prefecture and started up Sky with Kitazawa (whose real name is actually Masahiro Hatta/八田雅弘) sometime in the 1980s. From what I could find through the Yahoo images of any of their records was that the band could get out at least two albums and three singles. One other site mentioned that Sky had their amateur period before getting a contract with a major label, and that the reason the duo broke up was that Morimoto had a medical issue with his legs so that mobility became a big problem.
In any case, before this article becomes a blog version of "NBC Investigates", allow me to introduce you to the B-side of their 1981 single, "Wasurekaketa Hitomi"（忘れかけた瞳...Forgotten Eyes）. "Last Ballad" is a lovely and sweet slow song led by the piano. Written by Morimoto, composed by Kitazawa and arranged by Masaaki Omura（大村雅朗）, I would say that Sky has some similarities with another soft rock duo H2O and the singing reminds me of ballad mode Takao Kisugi（来生たかお）. There's some hint of country and if there had been any major strings included, I would have said that "Last Ballad" was a candidate for Fashion Music.
I wouldn't place Sky in the All-Points Bulletin category since we know the title of the song and the name of the band, but if any of you viewers have any additional information on this duo, please let us know.
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