Eikichi Yazawa debuted on the pop charts in the 1970s and rekindled his career in his sixties. He has performed live at the Budokan over a hundred times, a unmatched record.

Incidentally, the Beatles were the first rock group to perform at the Budokan, but the name really entered the pop culture lexicon with the release of Cheap Trick at Budokan in 1978.

Here Eikichi Yazawa makes an appearance at Kazutoshi Sakurai's Bank Band music festival.


Kazutoshi Sakurai is the front man for Mr. Children, one of the biggest rock groups you've never heard of. Though like many Japanese groups, I'm more impressed by the sum of the parts than the whole.

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