It is with a heavy heart that Surfer learned of the passing of Clyde Aikau, legendary big wave surfer and North Shore community icon. Born in 1949, Clyde and his younger brother, the late ...

“It's almost like a kitsch icon, or a mass-produced pop icon ... She found his 1980s rendition, called “The Great Wave (After Hokusai),” at The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh.

The picture, known internationally as The Great Wave, has appeared on a French stamp and on the walls of a giant housing complex in Moscow. It has become a ubiquitous part of global mass culture ...

However, the career of the New German Wave icon really took off in January 1983 ... the song later also reached the top of the charts in Great Britain. Which version of the superhit will be ...