Donovan The song was covered by Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity on their first LP in 1967, and Al Kooper and Stephen Stills recorded an 11-minute version on the 1968 album, "Super Session". Donovan's version is also in the closing sequence of the Gus Van Sant film, "To Die For". Because of earlier contractual problems, the UK version of "Sunshine Superman" LP was not released for another nine months. This was a compilation of tracks from the US albums "Sunshine Superman" and "Mellow Yellow". Donovan did not choose the tracks. On 24 October 1966, Epic released the single "Mellow
Behind the Mask (Yellow Magic Orchestra song) state." Yellow Magic Ochestra made use of synthesizers for the melodies and digital gated reverb for the snare drums. It was the first studio recording of this song. In 1980, the song was released as a single in the UK with the B-side as "Yellow Magic (Tong Poo)", 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