Examples of 60's artists trying to embrace early 80's trends

But he did it very much in his own way. "Hotter Than July", with heavy use of synth drums and more synths than ever before, was very much in line with the fashionable sounds at the time.

Seems nobody mentioned Peter Gabriel btw. Genesis debuted in 1960, and some of the stuff in particularly his fourth soloi album is clearly influenced by then "modern" styles.