In 1979 Dieter Meier and Boris Blank were introduced to each other in a record shop in Zurich. Soon after they set up a small recording studio in Zurich's Rote Fabrik, a haven for struggling artists, and began to experiment. Strange gorilla grunts were coupled with a Latin Cha-Cha beat on a primitive synthesizer, and the duo Yello was born. No one had any idea that they would become Switzerland's most successful modern music group, nor that they would still be together 21 years later.
With a stroke of luck, Yello released their first album Solid Pleasure on the independent label Ralph Records in the US. Later they were picked up by Polygram/Universal and in 1985 the album Stella became an international hit. Yello has produced ten successful albums since then and Hollywood also became interested in what the group had to offer. Oh Yeah became a classic after it was played in Paramount's Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Race, which was written for Germany's Formula 1 television program and Tied Up have also had similar success. Disney commissioned them to write music for the film The Santa Clause and by now Hollywood has used Yello's songs in over 30 movies.
The rock intelligentsia call Yello The Godfathers of Techno because so many DJs and producers have continued to remix their songs during the '90s rave era. In 1995, Carl Craig, Westbam, The Orb, Carl Cox and Moby paid their respect to the Swiss duo with the mix project Hands on Yello which contained new versions of Yello classics. However, Yello is not bound to the confines of techno. Shirley Bassey recorded The Rhythm Divine with them and still performs this song on tour.

Music composed, arranged and engineered by:
Boris Blank
Music published by:
Warner/chapel Music GmbH
Boris Blank appears courtesy of Mercury Records GmbH,
a Universal Music Company

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