Glenn Appell, David Hemphill (2006). American popular music: a multicultural history. Belmont, CA: Thomson Wadsworth. p. 423. ISBN0155062298. Consultado el 12 de mayo de 2012. «The 1980s brought the dawning age of the synthesizer in rock. Synthpop, a spare, synthesizer-based dance pop sound, was its first embodiment.»