Roland Jupiter-8 - Notable Users

Notable Users

  • Steve Adey - He uses a JP-8 on his soon to be released album and latest These Resurrections ep.
  • Alphaville - Used in their song Jerusalem and others on Afternoons in Utopia
  • Kevin Barnes - From Of Montreal
  • Blancmange - Happy Families
  • The Blue Nile - A loaned Jupiter-8 is all over their 1989 album Hats.
  • China Crisis - Working with Fire & Steel (Possible Pop Songs Volume Two), Flaunt the Imperfection, What Price Paradise
  • Rob Mounsey - Almost all sounds on Madonna's number one hit "Crazy for You," Phil Collins's number one hit "Against All Odds," many overdubs on Paul Simon's "Graceland," Steely Dan's "Gaucho," Donald Fagen's "Nightfly"
  • a-ha with the song The Sun Always Shines On Tv.
  • ABBA - 1982 last recording sessions in studio "You Owe Me One", "Just Like That", "I Am the City", "Cassandra", "Under Attack", "The Day Before You Came" & ABBA last performances in Sweden 19 November 1982 on the TV programme "Nöjesmaskinen" and on 11 December 1982 UK Noel Edmonds "The Late, Late Breakfast Show".
  • Enya - The Celts. She also plays a Jupiter-8 in the BBC documentary about the making of the album.
  • Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
  • Thomas Dolby - The Golden Age of Wireless
  • Duran Duran - "Hungry Like the Wolf", "Save A Prayer"
    • "Rio" is also said to feature the Jupiter-8, but it was actually the Roland Jupiter-4 with its arpeggiator in random mode.
  • Limahl - in the Never Ending Story video clip.
  • Harold Faltermeyer - "Axel F". Soundtrack for "Beverly Hills Cop".
  • Michael Jackson - Thriller
  • Jean Michel Jarre - Chronologie - Oxygene Live in your living room (2007)
  • Heaven 17 - The Luxury Gap, including "Temptation"
  • Howard Jones - esp. Human's Lib
  • Human League - was used since their 1981 album Dare and on many of their later albums
  • No Doubt - "Just a Girl" and most songs on Return of Saturn
  • Mando Lichtenberger, Jr of La Mafia
  • Giorgio Moroder - Scarface OST (Jupiter-8 sounds in many songs as bass and leads).
  • Savage - "Don't Cry Tonight"
  • Mr. Mister - Bass Arpeggiator on "Kyrie"
  • The Prodigy - "Wind It Up (Rewound)"
  • Journey on the album Frontiers. It is shown in the music videos for "Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)" and "Chain Reaction".
  • Lady Gaga used on her hit album The Fame Monster
  • Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Junk Culture
  • Queen - Queen on Fire - Live at the Bowl (1982/2004), The Works (1984), A Kind of Magic (1986)
    • Radio Ga Ga's recognisable bassline was created using the Jupiter-8's arpeggiator, and the solo on I Want to Break Free was performed on Jupiter-8 as well
  • Talk Talk - It's My Life
  • The Cars - Heartbeat City, Door To Door
  • Toto - Toto IV
  • Toyah - Anthem
  • Devo - Oh, No! It's Devo
  • Spliff - "Heut' Nacht"
  • Freur - "Doot Doot"
  • Foreigner - "That Was Yesterday" on Agent Provocateur
  • Go West - "We Close Our Eyes"
  • Rush - Signals, Grace Under Pressure Notably, the bass line for "Red Sector A"
  • Basilica and National Shrine of Our Lady of Consolation
  • Tears for Fears - The Hurting, "Head over Heels" and "Shout" on Songs from the Big Chair
  • Peter Oxendale with John Foxx - "The Hidden Man"
  • Simple Minds - New Gold Dream and "Don't You (Forget About Me)" and most of their Once Upon a Time album
  • Paul Davis - Singer/Songwriter Used A Roland Jupiter 8, It Was Used Extensively On 1981's Cool Night Album
  • Wintersun Project (all recordings 2001-2004)
  • Charanjit Singh - Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat
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  • Depeche Mode
  • Dubstar
  • James Ting
  • Legowelt
  • Meat Beat Manifesto
  • Moby
  • Richard Daniel Roman
  • Roger Joseph Manning Jr.
  • Shriekback
  • Überzone
  • Underworld
  • Vince Clarke
  • Visekongene
  • William Orbit
  • Frank Farian used the Roland Jupiter 8 On Milli Vanili 1988's Girl You Know It's True
  • NOVA (electronic music Dutch group from the 1980s) used it in the 'Quo Vadis' album.
keyboardists
  • Gabrial McNair Keyboard player for No Doubt
  • Alicia Keys on "No One"
  • John Foxx on The Garden
Non-keyboardists
  • David Bowie - vocalist/performer
  • Prince - guitarist/vocalist
Endorsers of other manufacturers, etc..
  • Jan Hammer - "hitlist" - known to use Fairlight CMI
  • Scritti Politti - known to use Fairlight CMI
  • Tangerine Dream - known to use PPG
  • Toto - "Africa" and "Rosanna" on Toto IV

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