Andonis Michaelides (Greek: Αντώνης Μιχαηλίδης; 24 July 1958 – 4 January 2011), better known as Mick Karn, was a British-Cypriot musician and songwriter who rose to fame as the bassist for the art rock/new wave band Japan.

[3][4] Karn said in an interview that as tensions with their record company had abated following Japan's commercial success, band members began focusing on personal differences rather than on the common enemy.

[7] In 1982 he also contributed saxophone playing on three tracks on the Swedish band Lustans Lakejer's album En plats i solen, produced by Richard Barbieri.

[9] In 1983, he collaborated with Midge Ure on the UK top 40 single "After a Fashion", and in 1984, he formed Dalis Car with Peter Murphy.

[10] Karn also contributed to recordings by other artists, playing bass guitar on Bill Nelson's Chimera mini-LP as well as "Heads We’re Dancing" from Kate Bush’s The Sensual World and with Joan Armatrading.

[11] In the 1990s, he worked with artist David Torn, Andy Rinehart and a number of Japanese musicians, and formed the multinational new wave band, NiNa.

[citation needed] In 2001, Karn began to work with Gota Yashiki, Vivian Hsu, Masahide Sakuma, and Masami Tsuchiya in the band The d.e.p., or doggy eels project.

[citation needed] On 30 August 2010, Peter Murphy disclosed via a video message (subsequently removed/hidden) on his personal Facebook profile that he would be reuniting with Karn for a week in London, perhaps in November, to begin writing and recording for a second Dalis Car album.

[16] The tracks were mixed by Steve Jansen and mastered by Pieter Snapper in Istanbul, while the artwork for the EP was created by Thomas Bak with a painting by Jarosław Kukowski.

In 1981, he moved on to Wal basses, purchasing two Mark I instruments, one with rare African tulipwood facings, the other a cherry solid-body.

Karn recorded Japan's last studio album Tin Drum with the Wal and had continued to use these, along with a headless Klein K Bass.

His sculpture "Mask of Confidence", combining his hands with the arms, upper torso and face of photographer Yuka Fujii, was used as the inner sleeve cover for Kajagoogoo's Islands album.

Finding it much more malleable, the pieces could be worked on a larger scale and needn't be focused, as was the case previously, on small detail.

Moreover, several people Karn had worked with, in particular Midge Ure,[21] Porcupine Tree,[20] and Masami Tsuchiya,[13] announced concerts in support of the appeal.