![]() In 1977, Bow Wow supported Aerosmith and Kiss on their Japanese tours. Japanese heavy metal bands started emerging in the late 1970s, pioneered by Bow Wow (1975), 44 Magnum (1977) and Earthshaker (1978). They moved to Canada and published their first album of original material, Satori which was released in April 1971 and is now considered a progenitor of heavy metal music and, together with Kirikyogen, doom metal. Uchida replaced every member of The Flowers except its drummer and renamed them the Flower Travellin' Band for October 1970's Anywhere, which includes covers of heavy metal band Black Sabbath and progressive rock act King Crimson. 1970s to 1980s: Diversification Hard rock and heavy metal After seeing a show by then-upcoming artist Jimi Hendrix during a visit to Europe, Yuya Uchida returned home and formed Yuya Uchida & the Flowers in November 1967 in order to introduce a similar sound to Japan. Later, some of the members of the Tigers, the Tempters, and the Spiders formed the first Japanese supergroup, Pyg.ħ0s "New Rock" group such as the Power House, the Blues Creation, Murasaki, Condition Green, and Bow Wow released rock albums. The Tigers were the most popular Group Sounds band in the era. They were influenced by Bob Dylan and American folk music. After the boom of Group Sounds, there were several folk singer-songwriters. By the late 1960s, Group Sounds bands such as The Tempters, the Tigers, the Golden Cups, the Ox, the Village Singers, the Carnabeats, the Mops, the Jaguars, the Wild Ones and the Spiders had big hits. John Lennon of the Beatles later became one of the most popular Western musicians in Japan. In the 1960s, many Japanese rock bands were influenced by Western rock musicians such as the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and the Rolling Stones, along with other Appalachian folk music, psychedelic rock, mod and similar genres: a phenomenon that was called Group Sounds (G.S.). ![]() Suppressed by authorities, elements of it nevertheless managed to reach the mainstream through singers such as Kyu Sakamoto. Rockabilly had a brief surge in popularity in Japan during the late 1950s. Rock festivals like the Fuji Rock Festival were introduced in the late 90s with attendances reaching a peak of 200,000 people per festival making it the largest outdoor music event in the country. Children are among the best selling music acts in Japan. Punk rock bands Boøwy and The Blue Hearts and hard rock/ heavy metal groups X Japan and B'z led Japanese rock in the late 1980s and early 1990s by achieving major mainstream success. Folk rock band Happy End in the early 1970s are credited as the first to sing rock music in the Japanese language. Influenced by American and British rock of the 1960s, the first rock bands in Japan performed what is called Group Sounds, with lyrics almost exclusively in English. Japanese rock ( Japanese: 日本のロック, Hepburn: Nihon no Rokku), sometimes abbreviated to J-rock ( ジェイ・ロック, Jei Rokku), is rock music from Japan. For other uses, see J-rock (disambiguation).
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