With his signature 1982 hit “She Blinded Me with Science,” Dolby became a synth-music pioneer, but that’s just one of his many innovations and explorations.

What is the song about? Who’s that fellow shouting Science throughout the whole song? And how did Foreigner help make this song happen? It’s a song that only could have come from the ’80s, which is ...

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Thomas Dolby will always be known for his early-'80s new-wave hit, "She Blinded Me With Science." But it was his work with cell phone technology in the 1990s, specifically with the synthesizer ...