Stella by Yello

Stella, the fourth album from Swiss electronic outfit Yello, hit shops in Switzerland, Germany and Austria on 29 January 1985 and reached Britain and America that March. Founder member Carlos Perón had gone by then, and without him the Zürich duo of Dieter Meier and Boris Blank steered away from the lab-coat experiments and toward a sleeker synth-pop, with Blank building the music out of odd samples and rhythm and Meier supplying the voice and the words.

It became the first album by a Swiss group ever to top the Swiss chart, and it broke them worldwide thanks to "Oh Yeah", a deadpan, drooling slab of electro-lounge that Hollywood fell for: it turned up in Ferris Bueller's Day Off in 1986 and in The Secret of My Success a year later, and it has kept popping up on screens ever since, from Uncle Buck to The Simpsons.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.