Fellow new wave bands
Talking Heads,
The B-52's and
Devo were fans of Plastics and were instrumental in getting their albums released in the United States. The band's mainstream exposure began when
Toshio Nakanishi designed a tour program book for Talking Heads and gave their frontman
David Byrne a tape of Plastics demos. Byrne promptly sent it to the B-52's' manager, who offered to represent them internationally. The band used the
Roland CR-68 and
CR-78 drum machines for their early albums. On February 19, 1982,
NBC's late night comedy show
SCTV aired the promotional video for Plastics' song "Top Secret Man" as part of the "Midnight Video Special" sketch, hosted by Gerry Todd (
Rick Moranis).
Stereo Total's cover of their song "
I Love You, Oh No!" (with the title amended to "I Love You Ono") was used in television commercials for
Sony Ericsson in Europe around 2006 and by
Dell computers in the US in 2009. On January 16, 2014, Masahide Sakuma died from scirrhous gastric cancer and a brain tumor. He was 61. == Band members ==