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202-638: Buck-Tick (stylized as BUCK-TICK ) is a Japanese rock band formed in Fujioka, Gunma in 1983. The classic lineup of lead vocalist Atsushi Sakurai , lead guitarist Hisashi Imai , rhythm guitarist Hidehiko Hoshino , bassist Yutaka Higuchi and drummer Toll Yagami lasted from 1985 until 2023. Following Sakurai's death that year, Imai and Hoshino began sharing lead vocal duties. The band has experimented with many different genres of music throughout their four decade career, including punk rock , gothic rock and industrial rock . Buck-Tick are commonly credited as one of

404-492: A " goth " concept, which they combined with a retro straight rock sound for the albums Tenshi no Revolver (2007) and Memento Mori (2009). Their next album, 2010's Razzle Dazzle , then incorporated many instances of dance-rock . Jrock Revolution described the band's style as having gone "from the bubbly sounds of pop to the buzz of electronic cyberpunk to lustful velvety goth to the smooth style of hard rock and back again". Due to their experimentation with various genres,

606-509: A certain degree doesn't care if it's popular. — Bill Wyman in Vulture (2016) The sound of rock is traditionally centered on the amplified electric guitar, which emerged in its modern form in the 1950s with the popularity of rock and roll. It was also greatly influenced by the sounds of electric blues guitarists. The sound of an electric guitar in rock music is typically supported by an electric bass guitar, which pioneered jazz music in

808-580: A company reorganization folded it completely into Sony. Thus, the band officially became a Sony Music Entertainment Japan artist, signed to the Ariola Japan subsidiary. Buck-Tick played fan club-only concerts in November and December, before releasing the single " Heaven " on December 12 and performing three Day in Question concerts at the end of the month. January 2009 saw the release of the single " Galaxy ", with

1010-474: A court hearing, which was attended by hundreds of concerned fans and was covered on television. The guitarist was given a suspended sentence , and the band's agency was flooded with fan letters pleading for them not to disband. The band held a press conference in July, where they announced that Buck-Tick is the five members, and that none of them could be replaced. With a now wide-open schedule, Buck-Tick went back into

1212-614: A design school. Sakurai's parents would not let him move to the capital. However, Imai and Araki returned home on weekends for band practice. During the summer of 1984, Hinan Go-Go changed their name to Buck-Tick, which is a creative spelling of "bakuchiku" ( 爆竹 ) , the Japanese word for firecracker. They also began to write original songs, most written by Imai and a few by Hoshino. When Higuchi and Hoshino graduated in 1985, they also moved to Tokyo—Higuchi for business school and Hoshino for culinary school. The band's first concert under their new name

1414-623: A different opening act from among the artists that had contributed to the Parade tribute album released in 2005. June 6 saw the release of the single " Rendezvous ", and the Tour Parade was scheduled to end in Okinawa on July 15. However, a typhoon prevented a ferry from transporting their gear to the location and the show was rescheduled for January 20, 2008. The single " Alice in Wonder Underground ",

1616-518: A double album with Mona Lisa Overdrive , which ultimately came out the following year. Musically, the two albums feed into each other in a continuous loop. The last track on Kyokutou I Love You is an instrumental which becomes the bottom musical layer of the first track on Mona Lisa Overdrive . Likewise, the last track on Mona Lisa Overdrive contains samples from the first track on Kyokutou I Love You . The Warp Days tour began in April 2002 and ended with

1818-514: A fondness for a good beat, a meaningful lyric with some wit, and the theme of youth, which holds an "eternal attraction" so objective "that all youth music partakes of sociology and the field report ." Writing in Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s (1990), he said this sensibility is evident in the music of folk singer-songwriter Michelle Shocked , rapper LL Cool J , and synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys —"all kids working out their identities"—as much as it

2020-477: A foundation of simple syncopated rhythms in a 4 meter , with a repetitive snare drum back beat on beats two and four. Melodies often originate from older musical modes such as the Dorian and Mixolydian , as well as major and minor modes. Harmonies range from the common triad to parallel perfect fourths and fifths and dissonant harmonic progressions. Since the late 1950s, and particularly from

2222-609: A frequent addition to the established rock format of guitars, bass, and drums in subsequent progressive rock. Instrumentals were common, while songs with lyrics were sometimes conceptual, abstract, or based in fantasy and science fiction. The Pretty Things ' SF Sorrow (1968), the Kinks' Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) (1969), and the Who 's Tommy (1969) introduced

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2424-518: A gig there, at the Greyhound music club, and amongst those who attended were members of the band Der Zibet , who were also recording in London at the time. The members of Buck-Tick loved London, especially Sakurai, who felt that the music scene there was more welcoming of dark and serious music. With the album, the band broke into a darker, more serious sound which took a fair amount of criticism from members of

2626-569: A gothic rendition of Lewis Carroll Alice in Wonderland , was released on August 8, 2007, and Buck-Tick performed at the Rising Sun Rock Festival on August 17. The Parade tour and the band's anniversary culminated in a large festival called Buck-Tick Fest 2007 On Parade, which was held on September 8 at Minato Mirai in the Yokohama port. It lasted all day and featured all 13 artists from

2828-612: A key feature of psychedelia. Psychedelic rock reached its apogee in the last years of the decade. 1967 saw the Beatles release their definitive psychedelic statement in Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band , including the controversial track " Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds ", the Rolling Stones responded later that year with Their Satanic Majesties Request , and Pink Floyd debuted with The Piper at

3030-500: A large concert at the end of December, usually at the Nippon Budokan, to celebrate the anniversary of their reunion after Imai's arrest. Since 2001, they have named these concerts The Day in Question , and the shows have often been broadcast live on TV. On January 24, 1990, the band released " Aku no Hana ", which became their first single to reach number one. The album Aku no Hana followed on February 1, and went much further into

3232-465: A long 34-date national tour to support the album, which lasted until December and included three Day in Question concerts. Coinciding with the stripped back nature on the album's music, the stage setup for the tour was also much simpler than usual. Also in December, the cellphone company SoftBank released special-edition Buck-Tick mobile phones that had been designed by the band members. After performing

3434-568: A loud amplified sound, often centered on the electric guitar, based on the Chicago blues , particularly after the tour of Britain by Muddy Waters in 1958, which prompted Cyril Davies and guitarist Alexis Korner to form the band Blues Incorporated . The band involved and inspired many of the figures of the subsequent British blues boom, including members of the Rolling Stones and Cream , combining blues standards and forms with rock instrumentation and emphasis. The other key focus for British blues

3636-572: A mainstream audience with hits including " Blowin' in the Wind " (1963) and " Masters of War " (1963), which brought " protest songs " to a wider public, but, although beginning to influence each other, rock and folk music had remained largely separate genres, often with mutually exclusive audiences. Early attempts to combine elements of folk and rock included the Animals' " House of the Rising Sun " (1964), which

3838-485: A major element of progressive rock. From about 1967 bands like Cream and the Jimi Hendrix Experience had moved away from purely blues-based music into psychedelia . By the 1970s, blues rock had become heavier and more riff-based, exemplified by the work of Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple , and the lines between blues rock and hard rock "were barely visible", as bands began recording rock-style albums. The genre

4040-429: A major influence on subsequent electronic rock . With the advent of punk rock and technological changes in the late 1970s, progressive rock was increasingly dismissed as pretentious and overblown. Many bands broke up, but some, including Genesis, ELP, Yes, and Pink Floyd, regularly scored top ten albums with successful accompanying worldwide tours. Some bands which emerged in the aftermath of punk, such as Siouxsie and

4242-410: A more basic form of rock and roll that incorporated its original influences, particularly blues, country and folk music, leading to the creation of country rock and Southern rock. In 1966 Bob Dylan went to Nashville to record the album Blonde on Blonde . This, and subsequent more clearly country-influenced albums, such as Nashville Skyline , have been seen as creating the genre of country folk ,

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4444-481: A multibillion-dollar industry and doubling its market while, as Christgau noted, suffering a significant "loss of cultural prestige". "Maybe the Bee Gees became more popular than the Beatles, but they were never more popular than Jesus ", he said. "Insofar as the music retained any mythic power, the myth was self-referential – there were lots of songs about the rock and roll life but very few about how rock could change

4646-570: A national phenomenon. It is often argued that the surf music craze and the careers of almost all surf acts was effectively ended by the arrival of the British Invasion from 1964, because most surf music hits were recorded and released between 1960 and 1965. By the end of 1962, what would become the British rock scene had started with beat groups like the Beatles , Gerry & the Pacemakers and

4848-453: A new album in 2024 and announced a concert to be held at the same venue in exactly one year. Buck-Tick' first release of new material following Sakurai's death was the single "Raijin Fūjin - Resonance" on November 20, 2024. It features Imai and Hoshino sharing vocal duties. Although Imai had sung lead vocal parts in the band previously, the song marked Hoshino's first time singing lead. Subrosa ,

5050-522: A new fan club, Fish Tank. On June 21, they released their ninth studio album, Cosmos , which featured a brighter sound than was usual for the band and also electronic, cyberpunk -influenced music in such songs as "Living on the Net". Tour 1996 Chaos started in July, and was going to be followed by the Chaos After Dark Tour in December. However, Sakurai fell seriously ill with acute peritonitis while at

5252-449: A non-album double A-side single on January 22, 2014. Buck-Tick's thirty-fourth single "Keijijou Ryuusei" was released on May 14, and was followed by their nineteenth studio album, Arui wa Anarchy , on June 4. The album's 28-date tour ran from June 18 to September 26, before the band began Tour 2014 Metaform Nights ~Arui wa Anarchy~ on October 25 and held the Arui wa Anarchy -NPPNBDKN- concert at

5454-579: A photo shoot in Nepal . When he was told how serious his condition was, he wanted to be flown back to Tokyo so that if he died, he could die at home, but once back in Japan "he felt so relieved that he was able to recover". He was hospitalized for about a month. In 1997, Buck-Tick changed record labels from Victor to Mercury Music Entertainment . The make-up shows for the previous year's postponed concerts began in March, under

5656-456: A preacher, prosecutions of Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry and the breaking of the payola scandal (which implicated major figures, including Alan Freed, in bribery and corruption in promoting individual acts or songs), gave a sense that the rock and roll era established at that point had come to an end. Rock quickly spread out from its origins in the US, associated with the rapid Americanization that

5858-444: A prog rock influence and while ranking among the most commercially successful acts of the 1970s, heralding the era of pomp or arena rock , which would last until the costs of complex shows (often with theatrical staging and special effects), would be replaced by more economical rock festivals as major live venues in the 1990s. The instrumental strand of the genre resulted in albums like Mike Oldfield 's Tubular Bells (1973),

6060-633: A rare example in Japanese music history and earning them a special "Inspiration Award Japan" at the 2017 MTV Video Music Awards Japan . Buck-Tick was formed in Gunma Prefecture in 1983. Hisashi Imai had the original idea for the band, despite not being able to play any instruments at the time. He recruited his friend, Yutaka Higuchi , and the two of them began to practice—Imai on guitar and Higuchi on bass. Then, Higuchi asked Hidehiko Hoshino , who had been his friend since their first year of high school, to join. Higuchi tried to convince Hoshino to become

6262-446: A rigidly delineated musical definition." In the opinion of music journalist Robert Christgau , "the best rock jolts folk-art virtues—directness, utility, natural audience—into the present with shots of modern technology and modernist dissociation ". Rock and roll was conceived as an outlet for adolescent yearnings ... To make rock and roll is also an ideal way to explore intersections of sex, love, violence, and fun, to broadcast

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6464-695: A route pursued by a number of largely acoustic folk musicians. Other acts that followed the back-to-basics trend were the Canadian group the Band and the California-based Creedence Clearwater Revival , both of which mixed basic rock and roll with folk, country and blues, to be among the most successful and influential bands of the late 1960s. The same movement saw the beginning of the recording careers of Californian solo artists like Ry Cooder , Bonnie Raitt and Lowell George , and influenced

6666-594: A show at Tokyo Bay NK Hall on June 16, which was recorded for the Tour 2002 Warp Days 20020616 Bay NK Hall concert video. Three shows were also held in June under the title Warp Days -After Dark-, and the band ended the year with a Day in Question on December 29. The single " Zangai " was released on January 8, 2003, and those who purchased it were able to apply for tickets to a secret live that Buck-Tick held at Shibuya-AX on January 24. The title of February 2003's Mona Lisa Overdrive

6868-478: A slogan one only began to hear in 1972 or so, mobilized all those eager to believe that idealism had become passe, and once they were mobilized, it had. In popular music, embracing the '70s meant both an elitist withdrawal from the messy concert and counterculture scene and a profiteering pursuit of the lowest common denominator in FM radio and album rock . Rock saw greater commodification during this decade, turning into

7070-407: A style that drew directly from the genres of blues , rhythm and blues , and country music . Rock also drew strongly from genres such as electric blues and folk , and incorporated influences from jazz and other musical styles. For instrumentation, rock is centered on the electric guitar , usually as part of a rock group with electric bass guitar , drums , and one or more singers. Usually, rock

7272-517: A three-date tour named after the album in December, with the final concert recorded and later released as the One Life, One Death Cut Up live album and home video. 2001 also saw little activity as Buck-Tick, with only two concerts held. They returned to Korea for the Soyo Rock Festival on July 29, where they were drenched with rain during their set, and held their first Day in Question concert at

7474-460: A variety of directions, including Dylan and the Byrds, who began to develop country rock . However, the hybridization of folk and rock has been seen as having a major influence on the development of rock music, bringing in elements of psychedelia, and helping to develop the ideas of the singer-songwriter, the protest song, and concepts of "authenticity". Psychedelic music's LSD -inspired vibe began in

7676-522: A variety of sources such as the Tin Pan Alley pop tradition, folk music , and rhythm and blues . Christgau characterizes rock lyrics as a "cool medium" with simple diction and repeated refrains, and asserts that rock's primary "function" "pertains to music, or, more generally, noise ." The predominance of white, male, and often middle class musicians in rock music has often been noted, and rock has been seen as an appropriation of Black musical forms for

7878-501: A young, white and largely male audience. As a result, it has also been seen to articulate the concerns of this group in both style and lyrics. Christgau, writing in 1972, said in spite of some exceptions, "rock and roll usually implies an identification of male sexuality and aggression". Since the term "rock" started being used in preference to "rock and roll" from the late-1960s, it has usually been contrasted with pop music, with which it has shared many characteristics, but from which it

8080-506: Is Yagami's solo project that he started in 2004. It consisted of himself as drummer and vocalist, Jose Tino PePe and Mr. Big Dig as The Blue Sky, and Alex Tamagi and James Norwood as the Optical Surfers on bass, guitar, keyboards. Other vocalists such as Suzu and Mike also appeared. Their first album, 1977/Blue Sky , was released on July 28, 2004. The album is said to be a highly personal album. Yagami's inspiration being dealing with

8282-536: Is credited with first using the phrase "rock and roll" to describe the music. Four years later, Bill Haley 's " Rock Around the Clock " (1954) became the first rock and roll song to top Billboard magazine's main sales and airplay charts, and opened the door worldwide for this new wave of popular culture. Other artists with early rock and roll hits included Chuck Berry , Bo Diddley , Fats Domino , Little Richard , Jerry Lee Lewis , and Gene Vincent . Soon rock and roll

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8484-464: Is generally agreed that garage rock peaked both commercially and artistically around 1966. By 1968 the style largely disappeared from the national charts and at the local level as amateur musicians faced college, work or the draft . New styles had evolved to replace garage rock. Although the first impact of the British Invasion on American popular music was through beat and R&B based acts,

8686-600: Is in the music of Chuck Berry , the Ramones , and the Replacements . The foundations of rock music are in rock and roll, which originated in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, and quickly spread to much of the rest of the world. Its immediate origins lay in a melding of various black musical genres of the time, including rhythm and blues and gospel music , with country and western . Debate surrounds

8888-479: Is mistakenly thought to have been inspired by William Gibson 's cyberpunk novel of the same name , but Imai originally confused it with Robert Longo 's work Samurai Overdrive , which actually inspired the album's name. The album's tour included 17 shows from March to April, and was followed by the six-date Tour Here We Go Again!. June 28 and 29 saw Buck-Tick hold two outdoor concerts at Hibiya Open-Air Concert Hall titled Mona Lisa Overdrive -Xanadu-. They then played

9090-411: Is often distanced by an emphasis on musicianship, live performance, and a focus on serious and progressive themes as part of an ideology of authenticity that is frequently combined with an awareness of the genre's history and development. According to Simon Frith , rock was "something more than pop, something more than rock and roll" and "[r]ock musicians combined an emphasis on skill and technique with

9292-742: Is smashed-together nuances of everything from Depeche Mode and New Order to U2 and the Knack . While wry, it can float and be nebulously melodic. [...] Masked in eye makeup, Atsushi looks and sounds possessed. Buck-Tick was (and continues to be) and anomaly in the Japanese music scene, a tangle of goth rock diluted with synth and electronica. It's unhappy, dirty music, the musical equivalent of exploded soot and smoke. Their visual look and image has been called "dark enough to attract fringe subcultures, but not too dark to scare off mainstreamers". Early in their career, they were visually well-known for "gravity-defying" hairstyles (only drummer Yagami has continued this in

9494-453: Is song-based music with a 4 time signature using a verse–chorus form , but the genre has become extremely diverse. Like pop music , lyrics often stress romantic love but also address a wide variety of other themes that are frequently social or political. Rock was the most popular genre of music in the U.S. and much of the Western world from the 1950s to the 2010s. Rock musicians in

9696-399: Is termed as a rock band or a rock group. Furthermore, it typically consists of between three (the power trio ) and five members. Classically, a rock band takes the form of a quartet whose members cover one or more roles, including vocalist, lead guitarist, rhythm guitarist, bass guitarist, drummer, and often keyboard player or another instrumentalist. Rock music is traditionally built on

9898-484: Is the Band." Toll Yagami Toll Yagami dropped out of high school in the tenth grade. His first bands were Shout and Spots, with the latter eventually changing their name to SP. In 1984, the members of Buck-Tick , the band of Yagami's younger brother Yutaka , moved to Tokyo , sans drummer Atsushi Sakurai . Sakurai asked Yagami if he could join SP as vocalist, but was refused. A year later, when Buck-Tick's vocalist Araki

10100-528: The Billboard Hot 100 . The British Invasion greatly influenced garage bands, providing them with a national audience, leading many (often surf or hot rod groups) to adopt a British influence, and encouraging many more groups to form. Thousands of garage bands were extant in the United States and Canada during the era and hundreds produced regional hits. Despite scores of bands being signed to major or large regional labels, most were commercial failures. It

10302-475: The 33rd Japan Record Awards . 1992 marked the fifth anniversary of Buck-Tick's major label debut. While a "best-of" compilation album was considered to celebrate the occasion, some members of the band wanted to create a new album. They instead released the self-cover album Koroshi no Shirabe: This Is Not Greatest Hits in March. The band had spent many hours in the studio re-recording, and in some cases radically changing, songs they had previously released. After

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10504-519: The American folk music revival had grown to a major movement, using traditional music and new compositions in a traditional style, usually on acoustic instruments. In America the genre was pioneered by figures such as Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger and often identified with progressive or labor politics . In the early sixties figures such as Joan Baez and Bob Dylan had come to the fore in this movement as singer-songwriters. Dylan had begun to reach

10706-649: The Romantist - The Stalin, Michiro Endo Tribute Album , and perform at the Rockin' On Presents Countdown Japan 10/11 event. The Utakata no Razzle Dazzle ( "うたかたのRAZZLE DAZZLE" ) tour began on January 23, and the band performed at the Music and People Vol. 8 event on February 20. However, due to the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11, the remaining tour dates were postponed until November and December. Buck-Tick ended

10908-640: The Summer Sonic Festival on August 2 and 3, and opened for Marilyn Manson again when they played Tokyo Bay NK Hall and Osaka-jō Hall on September 25 and 28 as part of the Grotesk Burlesk Tour . The single " Gensou no Hana ", theme song of the TV Asahi show Kiseki no Tobira TV no Chikara , was released on December 3, and the year ended with two Day in Question concerts at the Nippon Budokan. In 2004, Buck-Tick largely suspended activities in order for

11110-422: The garage rock / post-punk revival in the 2000s. Since the 2010s, rock has lost its position as the pre-eminent popular music genre in world culture, but remains commercially successful. The increased influence of hip-hop and electronic dance music can be seen in rock music, notably in the techno-pop scene of the early 2010s and the pop-punk-hip-hop revival of the 2020s. Rock has also embodied and served as

11312-417: The protest song , rock music has been associated with political activism , as well as changes in social attitudes to race, sex, and drug use, and is often seen as an expression of youth revolt against adult consumerism and conformity . At the same time, it has been commercially highly successful, leading to accusations of selling out . A good definition of rock, in fact, is that it's popular music that to

11514-454: The 1950s saw the growth in popularity of the electric guitar, and the development of a specifically rock and roll style of playing through such exponents as Chuck Berry, Link Wray , and Scotty Moore . The use of distortion , pioneered by Western swing guitarists such as Junior Barnard and Eldon Shamblin was popularized by Chuck Berry in the mid-1950s. The use of power chords , pioneered by Francisco Tárrega and Heitor Villa-Lobos in

11716-461: The 19th century and later on by Willie Johnson and Pat Hare in the early 1950s, was popularized by Link Wray in the late 1950s. Commentators have traditionally perceived a decline of rock and roll in the late 1950s and early 1960s. By 1959, the death of Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens in a plane crash, the departure of Elvis for the army, the retirement of Little Richard to become

11918-469: The 27-date Tour 2013 Cosmic Dreamer, which ran from January 20 to March 7 and featured a large set that provided fake rain for Sakurai to sing in despite all venues being indoor live houses. Buck-Tick held their first charity concert, Tour 2013 Cosmic Dreamer Extra ~ We Love All!, on March 11 at Nippon Seinenkan to support reconstruction after the Great East Japan Earthquake. The film Buck-Tick

12120-472: The Banshees , Ultravox , and Simple Minds , showed the influence of progressive rock, as well as their more usually recognized punk influences. In the late 1960s, jazz-rock emerged as a distinct subgenre out of the blues-rock, psychedelic, and progressive rock scenes, mixing the power of rock with the musical complexity and improvisational elements of jazz. AllMusic states that the term jazz-rock "may refer to

12322-609: The Beatles, demonstrating "to the rock generation in general that an album could be a major standalone statement without hit singles", such as on The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963). Folk rock particularly took off in California, where it led acts like the Mamas & the Papas and Crosby, Stills, and Nash to move to electric instrumentation, and in New York, where it spawned performers including

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12524-703: The Buck-Tick Phenomenon concert. Tanaka later described his initial impression of them after first seeing them perform at the Taiyou Matsuri in September 1986; "I was more attracted to Buck-Tick than any other band I saw at the time, even though they were the worst of all the bands I saw." On June 16, 1987, the band held Buck-Tick Phenomenon II at the Live Inn in Shibuya to bid farewell to their indie days. A home video of

12726-596: The Byrds ' shift from folk to folk rock from 1965. The psychedelic lifestyle, which revolved around hallucinogenic drugs, had already developed in San Francisco and particularly prominent products of the scene were Big Brother and the Holding Company , the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane . The Jimi Hendrix Experience 's lead guitarist, Jimi Hendrix did extended distorted, feedback-filled jams which became

12928-431: The Byrds adopted rock instrumentation, including drums and 12-string Rickenbacker guitars, which became a major element in the sound of the genre. Later that year Dylan adopted electric instruments, much to the outrage of many folk purists, with his " Like a Rolling Stone " becoming a US hit single. According to Ritchie Unterberger , Dylan (even before his adoption of electric instruments) influenced rock musicians like

13130-578: The Dominos , followed by an extensive solo career that helped bring blues rock into the mainstream. Green, along with the Bluesbreaker's rhythm section Mick Fleetwood and John McVie , formed Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac , who enjoyed some of the greatest commercial success in the genre. In the late 1960s Jeff Beck , also an alumnus of the Yardbirds, moved blues rock in the direction of heavy rock with his band,

13332-499: The Gates of Dawn . Key recordings included Jefferson Airplane's Surrealistic Pillow and the Doors ' self-titled debut album . These trends peaked in the 1969 Woodstock festival , which saw performances by most of the major psychedelic acts. Sgt. Pepper was later regarded as the greatest album of all time and a starting point for the album era , during which rock music transitioned from

13534-601: The Inazuma Rock Festival on September 20, and held the Tour Memento Mori -Rebirth- from September to October, before a single Day in Question concert on December 29. On March 24, 2010, the group released the single " Dokudanjou Beauty ". Buck-Tick performed at the Greens 20th Anniversary Live ~Thanks to All!!~ Special event on August 28, before releasing their second single of the year on September 1, " Kuchizuke ", which

13736-521: The Japanese music scene who had previously thought of Buck-Tick as little more than idols . However, it became the band's first to reach number one on the charts when it was released on January 18, 1989. The following two days marked the end of the Seventh Heaven tour with the band's first concerts at the Nippon Budokan , which were recorded for the two-part concert video Sabbat . On March 22, 1989,

13938-406: The Jeff Beck Group . The last Yardbirds guitarist was Jimmy Page , who went on to form The New Yardbirds which rapidly became Led Zeppelin . Many of the songs on their first three albums, and occasionally later in their careers, were expansions on traditional blues songs. In America, blues rock had been pioneered in the early 1960s by guitarist Lonnie Mack , but the genre began to take off in

14140-403: The Joint " (1949), also covered by Bill Haley & His Comets in 1952; and " Rocket 88 " by Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats (in fact, Ike Turner and his band the Kings of Rhythm ), recorded by Sam Phillips for Chess Records in 1951. In 1951, Cleveland, Ohio disc jockey Alan Freed began playing rhythm and blues music (then termed " race music ") for a multi-racial audience, and

14342-451: The Lovin' Spoonful and Simon and Garfunkel , with the latter's acoustic " The Sounds of Silence " (1965) being remixed with rock instruments to be the first of many hits. These acts directly influenced British performers like Donovan and Fairport Convention . In 1969 Fairport Convention abandoned their mixture of American covers and Dylan-influenced songs to play traditional English folk music on electric instruments. This British folk-rock

14544-578: The Movie ~Buck-Tick Phenomenon~ ( 劇場版BUCK-TICK ～バクチク現象～ , Gekijō-ban Bakuchiku ~Bakuchiku Genshō~ ) was shown in theaters in two parts in 2013; part one opening on June 15 and part two on June 22, each for one week only. Created from over 2,500 hours of footage that documented the band conducting their 25th anniversary activities, an advanced screening was previously held in Buck-Tick's home prefecture of Gunma on June 1. The band wrote two new songs exclusively for

14746-560: The Nippon Budokan on December 29. Buck-Tick took a brief hiatus in 2015, as Imai restarted his side-project Schaft and Sakurai formed a solo project called The Mortal. The band did however perform at the Lunatic Fest hosted by Luna Sea on June 28, where they were joined onstage by J for "Iconoclasm", and five The Day in Question concerts in December. At the fifth and final one on December 29, Buck-Tick announced their return to Victor Entertainment with Lingua Sounda becoming its sub label. 2016

14948-421: The Nippon Budokan on December 29. Instead, Sakurai and Imai formed the supergroup Schwein with English and German industrial musicians Raymond Watts and Sascha Konietzko . The quartet released two albums and toured Japan, all within the year. Buck-Tick did however enter the studio in 2001 to record their next album, and released the single "21st Cherry Boy" on November 21. 2002 marked the 15th anniversary of

15150-542: The Oricon chart. It includes the new song "Sayonara Shelter", inspired by a Ukrainian girl singing " Let It Go " during the Russian invasion of Ukraine . They also played several large-scale concerts at Yokohama Arena during a nationwide tour to celebrate the anniversary which ended in December at the Nippon Budokan. In March 2023, they released the top 10-charting singles "Taiyou to Ikaros" and "Mugen Loop", followed on April 12 with

15352-411: The Oricon charts. Although a good result for a new band, the album was not well-received and the group also faced accusations of "selling out". Buck-Tick had become popular enough that they could only play at large halls now. They missed small live houses, so they organized a secret gig under the false name "Bluck-Tlick" at Shinjuku Loft on January 24, 1988. The alias was taken from a shōjo manga that

15554-476: The Rolling Stones and the Yardbirds , were much more directly influenced by rhythm and blues and later blues music. Soon these groups were composing their own material, combining US forms of music and infusing it with a high energy beat. Beat bands tended towards "bouncy, irresistible melodies", while early British blues acts tended towards less sexually innocent, more aggressive songs, often adopting an anti-establishment stance. There was, however, particularly in

15756-573: The Searchers from Liverpool and Freddie and the Dreamers , Herman's Hermits and the Hollies from Manchester. They drew on a wide range of American influences including 1950s rock and roll, soul, rhythm and blues, and surf music, initially reinterpreting standard American tunes and playing for dancers. Bands like the Animals from Newcastle and Them from Belfast , and particularly those from London like

15958-650: The Seeds ) to near-studio musician quality (including the Knickerbockers , the Remains , and the Fifth Estate ). There were also regional variations in many parts of the country with flourishing scenes particularly in California and Texas. The Pacific Northwest states of Washington and Oregon had perhaps the most defined regional sound. The style had been evolving from regional scenes as early as 1958. "Tall Cool One" (1959) by

16160-583: The Taboo tour. In the summer, the album Symphonic Buck-Tick in Berlin was released on July 21, featuring orchestral versions of some of their songs performed by the Berlin Chamber Orchestra. Buck-Tick's first solo outdoor concerts, named A Midsummer Night's Dream, followed on August 2 and 5. An eight-date arena tour titled 5 for Japanese Babies was held in December. In the fall of 1990, Buck-Tick went back to

16362-418: The Tour Parade 2012, which lasted into July. For the latter, they were joined by artists who contributed to the second tribute album to them, Parade II: Respective Tracks of Buck-Tick , which was released on July 4 and features 13 artists, including D'erlanger , Polysics and Pay Money to My Pain . Their next single, " Miss Take ~Boku wa Miss Take~ ", was also released on July 4. Fans who ordered both it and

16564-676: The US was becoming dominated by lightweight pop and ballads, British rock groups at clubs and local dances were developing a style more strongly influenced by blues-rock pioneers, and were starting to play with an intensity and drive seldom found in white American acts; this influence would go on to shape the future of rock music through the British Invasion . The first four years of the 1960s has traditionally been seen as an era of hiatus for rock and roll. More recently some authors have emphasised important innovations and trends in this period without which future developments would not have been possible. While early rock and roll, particularly through

16766-604: The USSR and South Africa from 1955 to 1957, influencing the globalisation of rock. Johnny O'Keefe 's 1958 record " Wild One " was one of the earliest Australian rock and roll hits. By the late 1950s, as well as in the American-influenced Western world, rock was popular in communist states such as Yugoslavia, and the USSR, as well as in regions such as South America. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, American blues music and blues rock artists, who had been surpassed by

16968-722: The Wailers and " Louie Louie " by the Kingsmen (1963) are mainstream examples of the genre in its formative stages. By 1963, garage band singles were creeping into the national charts in greater numbers, including Paul Revere and the Raiders (Boise), the Trashmen (Minneapolis) and the Rivieras (South Bend, Indiana). Other influential garage bands, such as the Sonics (Tacoma, Washington), never reached

17170-527: The advent of rockabilly, saw the greatest commercial success for male and white performers, in this era, the genre was dominated by black and female artists. Rock and roll had not disappeared entirely from music at the end of the 1950s and some of its energy can be seen in the various dance crazes of the early 1960s, started by Chubby Checker 's record " The Twist " (1960). Some music historians have also pointed to important and innovative technical developments that built on rock and roll in this period, including

17372-404: The album's three-month-long tour ran from March to May, the band took a break to plan their next move. A two-day live event called Climax Together was held at Yokohama Arena on September 10 and 11. The event had been put together specifically to be filmed with innovative camera angles, and great care was taken with the lighting and design—for greater dramatic effect, the stage was even set up along

17574-785: The band gained a large number of new fans domestically and overseas who admired the gothic style. Buck-Tick also began to celebrate their 20th anniversary at the end of the year, with the Film Product concert film shown in theaters in November. December saw the 2005 Tour Diana and a Day in Question concert, as well as the releases of the compilation album Catalogue 2005 and the tribute album Parade: Respective Tracks of Buck-Tick . The last contains covers of their songs performed by 13 different artists, including junior musicians such as Kiyoharu and J , but also senior musicians such as Michiro Endo and Masami Tsuchiya , who had influenced Buck-Tick. 2006 had little activity from Buck-Tick. August saw

17776-558: The band is considered a rare example of a music act who "manage to keep things interesting despite—or because of—their longevity", "among the most prolific and popular groups in the country's music history... remain one of the more adventurous projects going in Japanese music". Some elements that persist throughout their music are resounding, jangling guitar chords, twin guitar interplay, throbbing, prominent bass lines, harsh roars of electronically distorted noise, and ambivalent melodies that wander between major and minor keys. Buck-Tick's music

17978-412: The band lineup; third, that they would never be forced to use session musicians ; and last, that they would be able to do all of their own production work. Most record companies refused the idea of accepting such demands from a new band, but Junichi Tanaka of Victor Invitation Records decided to accept their terms, and offered them Victor's Aoyama studio as a place to practice. He did so after attending

18180-427: The band members to work on individual musical projects. Sakurai began a solo career, releasing the album Ai no Wakusei in June, while Imai also released an album that month with the trio Lucy that he formed with Kiyoshi ( Spread Beaver , Machine) and Katsushige Okazaki (Age of Punk). In July, Toll and Higuchi both released albums with their bands, Yagami Toll & The Blue Sky and Wild Wise Apes, respectively. Hoshino

18382-437: The band on October 24. Buck-Tick also announced the cancellation of all previously scheduled performances. They held a two-day memorial event for Sakurai, titled The Ceremony -Atsushi Sakurai e- ( THE CEREMONY -櫻井敦司へ- ) , at Zepp Haneda on December 8 and 9. The band then held the Buck-Tick Phenomenon -2023- performance at the Nippon Budokan on December 29. They were previously scheduled to hold The Day in Question 2023 concert at

18584-441: The band started the Taboo tour. At this point they had stopped putting their hair up that extensively, and Sakurai had even given up on dyeing his. The tour was scheduled to run to the end of May, but it was cancelled abruptly when Imai was arrested for LSD possession in April. The incident was covered in newspapers and tabloids at the time, but since, the band has kept it very quiet. Buck-Tick went on hiatus and Imai had to appear at

18786-620: The band went to Korea for the first time. They were greeted enthusiastically by fans at the airport, and held a formal interview, but did not perform live. In September, Buck-Tick released the single "Glamorous", followed by One Life, One Death , their first studio album in nearly three years. That month also saw the beginning of the Phantom Tour of music halls, which led directly into the Other Phantom Tour of live houses in October. They played

18988-399: The band's debut. In March, they released the five-disc Picture Product home video, which includes interviews with the members, every music video they made, and a documentary on the band, and in September all of their Victor albums were remastered and re-released. March 6, 2002, saw Buck-Tick release their twelfth studio album, Kyokutou I Love You . It was initially planned to be released as

19190-596: The band's sixteenth studio album, Memento Mori , following on February 18. The album continues to explore the sound of "straight rock", and Sakurai said that while the focus of his previous lyrics had been about death, for Memento Mori he focused on both life and death. However, the tour brought back more elaborate stage shows, with Sakurai appearing from a large white balloon. The tour spanned three months beginning in April, with 25 performances in total. The final two concerts were held at Tokyo's NHK Hall in July. Buck-Tick also performed at Arabaki Rock Fest.09 on April 25 and

19392-459: The band's twenty-fourth studio album, will be released on December 4, before their Nippon Budokan concert on December 29. The album's tour will then run from April 12, 2025, to May 25. Buck-Tick's music has changed and evolved hugely over the course of their career. Their early work was influenced by the Japanese " positive punk " scene. Similar to their contemporaries and fellow Gunma Prefecture natives Boøwy , it used simple rhythms and chords, with

19594-456: The band. Sakurai is the main lyricist, and is famous for the erotic decadence of his lyrics which are predominantly in Japanese since 1990's Aku no Hana , influenced by Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal (as are the band's visual look and concept), but he also often addressed existential psychological themes, with the lyrics described as a "dance in a daydream about reality". The song " Rakuen (Inori Koinegai) " caused controversy because some of

19796-575: The biggest selling rock band of all time and they were followed into the US charts by numerous British bands. During the next two years British acts dominated their own and the US charts with Peter and Gordon , the Animals, Manfred Mann , Petula Clark , Freddie and the Dreamers, Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders , Herman's Hermits, the Rolling Stones, the Troggs , and Donovan all having one or more number one singles. Other major acts that were part of

19998-456: The chart. Their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show on 9 February 1964, drawing an estimated 73 million viewers (at the time a record for an American television program) is considered a milestone in American pop culture. During the week of 4 April 1964, the Beatles held 12 positions on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, including the entire top five. The Beatles went on to become

20200-564: The concert, Buck-Tick Phenomenon Live at the Live Inn , was later released on September 21 as their major label debut, reaching No. 4 on the Oricon video charts. On September 3, Buck-Tick opened their personal administrative office, which they named Shaking Hands, Inc., in honor of all the musical connections they hoped to make in the future. Soon after, they embarked on their first national tour. They released their first major label album, Sexual XXXXX! on November 21, and it climbed to No. 33 on

20402-550: The dark and gothic image they had begun to explore on Taboo and which would later become their trademark. It was named after French poet Charles Baudelaire 's Les Fleurs du Mal because it deals with similar themes. It became their second consecutive number one album and remains the group's best-selling to date. One week later, a new mix of Hurry Up Mode was released and also topped the charts. The Aku no Hana tour began in March, and lasted approximately four months with 51 concerts, prioritizing locations that were cancelled during

20604-455: The day and practiced and performed at night. In July 1986, they attracted the attention of Sawaki Kazuo, head of Taiyou Records, an independent label . He had seen the band perform at a live house called Shinjuku Attic, and had been very impressed. The band signed to Taiyou Records immediately and released their debut single, " To-Search " on October 21 of the same year. With Sawaki's help they began promoting themselves very actively, playing

20806-424: The delights and limitations of the regional , and to deal with the depredations and benefits of mass culture itself. — Robert Christgau in Christgau's Record Guide (1981) Unlike many earlier styles of popular music, rock lyrics have dealt with a wide range of themes, including romantic love, sex, rebellion against " The Establishment ", social concerns, and life styles. These themes were inherited from

21008-443: The development of psychedelic rock , influenced by the countercultural psychedelic and hippie scene . New genres that emerged included progressive rock , which extended artistic elements, heavy metal , which emphasized an aggressive thick sound, and glam rock , which highlighted showmanship and visual style. In the second half of the 1970s, punk rock reacted by producing stripped-down, energetic social and political critiques. Punk

21210-451: The early 1970s among existing blues-rock and psychedelic bands, as well as newly formed acts. The vibrant Canterbury scene saw acts following Soft Machine from psychedelia, through jazz influences, toward more expansive hard rock, including Caravan , Hatfield and the North , Gong , and National Health . The French group Magma around drummer Christian Vander almost single-handedly created

21412-455: The early 1970s, Robert Christgau wrote in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981): The decade is, of course, an arbitrary schema itself—time doesn't just execute a neat turn toward the future every ten years. But like a lot of artificial concepts—money, say—the category does take on a reality of its own once people figure out how to put it to work. "The '60s are over,"

21614-457: The early stages, considerable musical crossover between the two tendencies. By 1963, led by the Beatles, beat groups had begun to achieve national success in Britain, soon to be followed into the charts by the more rhythm and blues focused acts. " I Want to Hold Your Hand " was the Beatles' first number one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 , spending seven weeks at the top and a total of 15 weeks on

21816-510: The electronic treatment of sound by such innovators as Joe Meek , and the elaborate production methods of the Wall of Sound pursued by Phil Spector . The instrumental rock and roll of performers such as Duane Eddy , Link Wray and the Ventures was further developed by Dick Dale , who added distinctive "wet" reverb , rapid alternate picking, and Middle Eastern and Mexican influences. He produced

22018-568: The example set by the Beatles ' 1965 LP Rubber Soul in particular, other British rock acts released rock albums intended as artistic statements in 1966, including the Rolling Stones ' Aftermath , the Beatles' own Revolver , and the Who 's A Quick One , as well as American acts in the Beach Boys ( Pet Sounds ) and Bob Dylan ( Blonde on Blonde ). Garage rock was a raw form of rock music, particularly prevalent in North America in

22220-438: The film, "Love Parade" composed by Hoshino and "Steppers -Parade-" by Imai. In September, they performed at Kishidan Banpaku 2013 ~Bōsō Bakuon Ryōzanpaku~ on the 14 and at Nakatsugawa The Solar Budokan 2013 event on the 22, which were hosted by Kishidan and Taiji Sato of Theatre Brook respectively. Buck-Tick then finished the year off with four The Day in Question concerts. "Love Parade" and "Steppers -Parade-" were released as

22422-491: The first record, and worldwide hit, for the Virgin Records label, which became a mainstay of the genre. Instrumental rock was particularly significant in continental Europe, allowing bands like Kraftwerk , Tangerine Dream , Can , Focus (band) and Faust to circumvent the language barrier. Their synthesiser-heavy " krautrock ", along with the work of Brian Eno (for a time the keyboard player with Roxy Music ), would be

22624-451: The folk scene. The first group to advertise themselves as psychedelic rock were the 13th Floor Elevators from Texas. The Beatles introduced many of the major elements of the psychedelic sound to audiences in this period, such as guitar feedback , the Indian sitar and backmasking sound effects . Psychedelic rock particularly took off in California's emerging music scene as groups followed

22826-402: The following month performing it on the popular music program Music Station . The song was also used in a series of television commercials in which the band appeared advertising Victor's CDian Stereo, with the slogan "The super bass will firecracker" (a pun on Buck-Tick's name, which means "firecracker"). The lengthy Seventh Heaven tour also began in October and ran until the end of December. It

23028-503: The format of rock operas and opened the door to concept albums , often telling an epic story or tackling a grand overarching theme. King Crimson 's 1969 début album, In the Court of the Crimson King , which mixed powerful guitar riffs and mellotron , with jazz and symphonic music , is often taken as the key recording in progressive rock, helping the widespread adoption of the genre in

23230-453: The impetus was soon taken up by a second wave of bands that drew their inspiration more directly from American blues , including the Rolling Stones and the Yardbirds . British blues musicians of the late 1950s and early 1960s had been inspired by the acoustic playing of figures such as Lead Belly , who was a major influence on the Skiffle craze, and Robert Johnson . Increasingly they adopted

23432-460: The invasion included the Kinks and the Dave Clark Five . The British Invasion helped internationalize the production of rock and roll, opening the door for subsequent British (and Irish) performers to achieve international success. In America it arguably spelled the end of instrumental surf music, vocal girl groups and (for a time) the teen idols , that had dominated the American charts in

23634-511: The label were R&B oriented white rock bands that made use of jazzy horn sections, like Electric Flag , Blood, Sweat & Tears and Chicago , to become some of the most commercially successful acts of the later 1960s and the early 1970s. British acts to emerge in the same period from the blues scene, to make use of the tonal and improvisational aspects of jazz, included Nucleus and the Graham Bond and John Mayall spin-off Colosseum . From

23836-513: The last track (track 10), the CD skips and picks up at track 75 and then 84, both of which are strange buzzing noises, before skipping one last time to track 93, a hidden song. This technique was rare in Japan at that time, and apparently some fans tried to return their CDs to stores, claiming that they were broken. On the album, the band also began to experiment with different instruments—Hoshino played keyboards, and during live shows, Sakurai tried his hand at

24038-446: The late 1950s and 1960s. It dented the careers of established R&B acts like Fats Domino and Chubby Checker and even temporarily derailed the chart success of surviving rock and roll acts, including Elvis. The British Invasion also played a major part in the rise of a distinct genre of rock music, and cemented the primacy of the rock group, based on guitars and drums and producing their own material as singer-songwriters. Following

24240-824: The live house circuit in Tokyo. On April 1, 1987, the band released their first album, Hurry Up Mode . In conjunction with its release, they played a concert titled Buck-Tick Phenomenon ( バクチク現象 , Bakuchiku Genshō ) at Toshima Public Hall in Ikebukuro that same day. Everyone in the local music scene believed the hall was too large for the band and that the concert would be doomed to failure, but Buck-Tick used an advertising strategy that involved pasting thousands of eye-catching, black-and-white sticker advertisements all over Tokyo's hip youth districts that read simply "Buck-Tick Phenomenon April 1st Toshima Public Hall". Their staff members were nearly arrested for defacement of public property. But

24442-514: The long side of the hall and obscured by a gigantic scrim which was dropped partway through the set. On May 21, 1993, Buck-Tick released the single " Dress ", which would later be released in a new mix in 2005 and used as the opening theme for the Trinity Blood anime . Soon after, on June 23, they released their seventh studio album, Darker Than Darkness: Style 93 ; a loose concept album focusing on death. The album confused fans because after

24644-410: The loudest, wildest, most electrified fusion bands from the jazz camp, but most often it describes performers coming from the rock side of the equation." Jazz-rock "...generally grew out of the most artistically ambitious rock subgenres of the late '60s and early '70s", including the singer-songwriter movement. Many early US rock and roll musicians had begun in jazz and carried some of these elements into

24846-542: The lyrics were lifted from the Quran before the album was re-issued with the offending part removed by November 1995. Rock music Rock is a broad genre of popular music that originated as " rock and roll " in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles from the mid-1960s, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom. It has its roots in rock and roll,

25048-419: The lyrics. Sakurai's mother, whom he had been very close to, died, and due to the band's busy touring schedule, he was unable to visit her before the end. In interviews, the singer said that the pain he felt from these events strongly influenced his lyrics, and that this was when he started writing about real emotions, rather than what he thought was cool. Subsequently, he changed the first kanji in his name from

25250-550: The main founders of the visual kei movement. The band have released twenty-three studio albums and forty-three singles as of 2023, nearly all reaching the top ten and twenty positions on the Japanese Oricon charts. Buck-Tick released both their debut independent and major studio albums in 1987, and achieved breakthrough success the following year with the album Seventh Heaven (#3) and the single " Just One More Kiss ". In 1989, Taboo became their first number-one album. It

25452-606: The make up show in Okinawa on January 20, the band recuperated from 2007 with little activity in 2008. They released the Buck-Tick Fest 2007 On Parade and Tour 2007 Tenshi no Revolver home videos in April and May, respectively, and covered the song "Hameln" for September's Sirius -Tribute to Ueda Gen- , a tribute album to Lä-ppisch singer Gen Ueda. At the end of the year, BMG Japan was bought out by Sony Music Entertainment Japan and operated independently as BMG until early 2009 where

25654-476: The many recordings which have been suggested as "the first rock and roll record ". Contenders include " Strange Things Happening Every Day " by Sister Rosetta Tharpe (1944); " That's All Right " by Arthur Crudup (1946), which was later covered by Elvis Presley in 1954; " The House of Blue Lights " by Ella Mae Morse and Freddie Slack (1946); Wynonie Harris ' " Good Rocking Tonight " (1948); Goree Carter 's "Rock Awhile" (1949); Jimmy Preston 's " Rock

25856-643: The melodies to the songs. The band decided to fire Araki, his last concert was an event titled Beat for Beat for Beat Vol. 1 in November 1985, and Sakurai convinced them to accept him as their vocalist. Higuchi convinced Yagami that the best way for him to get over the loss of his own band was to join theirs instead, thus Toll took Sakurai's place behind the drums, completing Buck-Tick's classic lineup. The new lineup had their first concert at Beat for Beat for Beat Vol. 2 at Shinjuku Jam in December 1985. When Sakurai's father died, he too moved to Tokyo and Buck-Tick became more serious about music. The five members worked during

26058-669: The mid-1950s by white singers such as Carl Perkins , Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly and with the greatest commercial success, Elvis Presley . Hispanic and Latino American movements in rock and roll, which would eventually lead to the success of Latin rock and Chicano rock within the US, began to rise in the Southwest ; with rock and roll standard musician Ritchie Valens and even those within other heritage genres, such as Al Hurricane along with his brothers Tiny Morrie and Baby Gaby as they began combining rock and roll with country- western within traditional New Mexico music . In addition,

26260-603: The mid-1960s the Left Banke , the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and the Beach Boys, had pioneered the inclusion of harpsichords , wind , and string sections on their recordings to produce a form of Baroque rock and can be heard in singles like Procol Harum 's " A Whiter Shade of Pale " (1967), with its Bach -inspired introduction. The Moody Blues used a full orchestra on their album Days of Future Passed (1967) and subsequently created orchestral sounds with synthesizers. Classical orchestration, keyboards, and synthesizers were

26462-479: The mid-1960s and so called because of the perception that it was rehearsed in the suburban family garage. Garage rock songs often revolved around the traumas of high school life, with songs about "lying girls" and unfair social circumstances being particularly common. The lyrics and delivery tended to be more aggressive than was common at the time, often with growled or shouted vocals that dissolved into incoherent screaming. They ranged from crude one-chord music (like

26664-435: The mid-1960s as acts developed a sound similar to British blues musicians. Key acts included Paul Butterfield (whose band acted like Mayall's Bluesbreakers in Britain as a starting point for many successful musicians), Canned Heat , the early Jefferson Airplane , Janis Joplin , Johnny Winter , the J. Geils Band and Jimi Hendrix with his power trios , the Jimi Hendrix Experience (which included two British members, and

26866-580: The mid-1960s began to advance the album ahead of the single as the dominant form of recorded music expression and consumption, with the Beatles at the forefront of this development. Their contributions lent the genre a cultural legitimacy in the mainstream and initiated a rock-informed album era in the music industry for the next several decades. By the late 1960s " classic rock " period, a few distinct rock music subgenres had emerged, including hybrids like blues rock , folk rock , country rock , Southern rock , raga rock , and jazz rock , which contributed to

27068-401: The mid-1960s onwards, rock music often used the verse–chorus structure derived from blues and folk music, but there has been considerable variation from this model. Critics have stressed the eclecticism and stylistic diversity of rock. Because of its complex history and its tendency to borrow from other musical and cultural forms, it has been argued that "it is impossible to bind rock music to

27270-437: The mid-1990s (when they were dubbed a "top rock act" by Billboard ), but unlike other acts in the visual kei movement, they never ceased activities or faded into obscurity. The band has continued to tour and record regularly in the subsequent decades, and their last five studio albums between Arui wa Anarchy (2014) and Izora (2023) all reached the top six positions on the Oricon and Billboard Japan charts. Making them

27472-461: The new music genre zeuhl with their first albums in the early 1970s. Greater commercial success was enjoyed by Pink Floyd, who also moved away from psychedelia after the departure of Syd Barrett in 1968, with The Dark Side of the Moon (1973), seen as a masterpiece of the genre, becoming one of the best-selling albums of all time. There was an emphasis on instrumental virtuosity, with Yes showcasing

27674-591: The new music. In Britain the subgenre of blues rock, and many of its leading figures, like Ginger Baker and Jack Bruce of the Eric Clapton -fronted band Cream , had emerged from the British jazz scene. Often highlighted as the first true jazz-rock recording is the only album by the relatively obscure New York–based the Free Spirits with Out of Sight and Sound (1966). The first group of bands to self-consciously use

27876-734: The non-album single "Bran-New Lover" on July 14, and performed at Marilyn Manson 's Rock Is Dead Tour (originally scheduled as part of the Beautiful Monsters Tour ) on August 8. Their only other concerts of the year were also in August; a show named No Title held at Akasaka Blitz on the 19, and the four-date Energy Void Tour with Pig . "Miu", another non-album single, was released on October 20. In 2000, Buck-Tick changed record labels again, leaving Mercury for BMG Funhouse . Their popularity had been growing overseas, especially in South Korea , and

28078-463: The other from 2000 to 2010, titled Catalogue Victor→Mercury 87–99 and Catalogue Ariola 00–10 respectively. The single "Elise no Tame ni" was released on May 23, the same day as the home video of their 2011 Day in Question concert. In June, Buck-Tick held two concerts titled At the Night Side 2012 at Hibiya Open-Air Concert Hall in June, with the first being for fan club members only, and then began

28280-515: The previous single had a chance to win tickets to the band's promotional video shoot for the song "Climax Together". The band released their eighteenth studio album, Yume Miru Uchuu , on September 19, before holding Buck-Tick Fest 2012 On Parade on September 22 and 23. The fest attracted an estimated 14,000 fans and included bands who appear on the tribute album such as Mucc , Merry , Cali Gari , and others. The Yume Miru Uchuu tour lasted for 27 concerts from October 6 to December 29. 2013 began with

28482-465: The psychedelic rock and the Canterbury scenes came Soft Machine, who, it has been suggested, produced one of the artistically successfully fusions of the two genres. Perhaps the most critically acclaimed fusion came from the jazz side of the equation, with Miles Davis , particularly influenced by the work of Hendrix, incorporating rock instrumentation into his sound for the album Bitches Brew (1970). It

28684-628: The regional hit " Let's Go Trippin ' " in 1961 and launched the surf music craze, following up with songs like " Misirlou " (1962). Like Dale and his Del-Tones , most early surf bands were formed in Southern California, including the Bel-Airs , the Challengers , and Eddie & the Showmen . The Chantays scored a top ten national hit with " Pipeline " in 1963 and probably the best-known surf tune

28886-500: The release of the single " Kagerou ", which was written specifically to be used as the ending theme of the xxxHolic anime adaptation, and two performances for the Summer Sonic Festival. Three fan club-only concerts were held in September, followed by three Day in Question concerts in December. For the 20th anniversary of their major label debut, Buck-Tick held the Tour Parade between June and July 2007, where each date featured

29088-499: The release of their twenty-third studio album Izora . It reached the 2nd position on the Oricon chart and was their first top three album on Billboard Japan ' s Hot Albums charts. It was supported by a nationwide tour with over 20 concerts in 18 locations, ending on September 17 and 18 at Gunma Music Center in the band's hometown. That same month, several movie theaters screened The Parade –35th Anniversary– Fly Side & High Side live video recording nationwide. A live house tour

29290-445: The rise of rock and roll in the US, found new popularity in the UK, visiting with successful tours. Lonnie Donegan 's 1955 hit " Rock Island Line " was a major influence and helped to develop the trend of skiffle music groups throughout the country, many of which, including John Lennon 's Quarrymen (later the Beatles ), moved on to play rock and roll. While former rock and roll market in

29492-475: The romantic concept of art as artistic expression, original and sincere". In the new millennium, the term rock has occasionally been used as a blanket term including forms like pop music, reggae music , soul music , and even hip hop , which it has been influenced with but often contrasted through much of its history. Christgau has used the term broadly to refer to popular and semipopular music that caters to his sensibility as "a rock-and-roller", including

29694-517: The same era, and by percussion produced from a drum kit that combines drums and cymbals. This trio of instruments has often been complemented by the inclusion of other instruments, particularly keyboards such as the piano, the Hammond organ , and the synthesizer. The basic rock instrumentation was derived from the basic blues band instrumentation (prominent lead guitar, second chordal instrument, bass, and drums). A group of musicians performing rock music

29896-404: The saxophone. Both Hoshino and Sakurai played these instruments on the band's next album. The Darker Than Darkness: Style 93 tour is the longest of the band's career, with 59 performances in 50 locations between May and November. On December 31, 1993, Buck-Tick and Soft Ballet played a special concert for TVK at Shibuya Public Hall called Live Gaga Special, which was broadcast live. Buck-Tick

30098-474: The second of which also featured Soft Ballet and The Mad Capsule Markets . The album Shapeless was released in August and features ambient remixes of Buck-Tick songs by international artist such as Aphex Twin and Autechre . Buck-Tick went on the sold-out, five-stop LSB tour with Luna Sea and Soft Ballet between August 9 and 30, 1994. It is now looked at as a legendary tour in Japanese rock , not only due to

30300-447: The sets and costumes for the 33-date 13th Floor with Moonshine tour, which began on April 10. The live shows were very dramatic, and the band even hired a clown and a ballerina to perform with them at some of the shows. A Barks journalist called the show a "gothic theatre" and an illusion between dream and reality. At this time, visual kei and Gothic Lolita had been growing significantly in popularity and with Juusankai wa Gekkou ,

30502-543: The singles format to albums and achieved cultural legitimacy in the mainstream. Led by the Beatles in the mid-1960s, rock musicians advanced the LP as the dominant form of recorded music expression and consumption, initiating a rock-informed album era in the music industry for the next several decades. Progressive rock, a term sometimes used interchangeably with art rock , moved beyond established musical formulas by experimenting with different instruments, song types, and forms. From

30704-413: The skills of both guitarist Steve Howe and keyboard player Rick Wakeman , while Emerson, Lake & Palmer were a supergroup who produced some of the genre's most technically demanding work. Jethro Tull and Genesis both pursued very different, but distinctly English, brands of music. Renaissance , formed in 1969 by ex-Yardbirds Jim McCarty and Keith Relf, evolved into a high-concept band featuring

30906-607: The song " Hot Dog ". Genet, vocalist of Japanese goth band Auto-Mod, is good friends with Yagami and occasionally writes about him on his blog . Yagami supported Auto-Mod at their live at Shinjuku Loft in 2006 (the live was part of a set of shows celebrating the venue's 30th anniversary.) Selia, the backup vocalist, was introduced to Buck-Tick through Genet and performed backing vocals on the songs "Mr. Darkness and Mrs. Moonlight" and "Revolver" on Buck-Tick's 2007 album Tenshi no Revolver . On August 19, 2018, Yagami released his autobiography, 1977 . Yagami Toll & The Blue Sky

31108-562: The song "My Fuckin' Valentine". Two concerts were performed at the Nippon Budokan on December 26 and 27, as a prelude to the Tour Sextream Liner, which was held from February 4 to May 9, 1998. The band released the single " Sasayaki " and the EP LTD in March. On May 13, they released the non-album single " Gessekai ", which was used as the opening theme to the anime adaptation of Nightwalker: The Midnight Detective . Shortly after this, on

31310-424: The songs mostly in major keys and using some English words in the lyrics. Starting with 1989's Taboo , they experimented with a darker- gothic sound, which grew more mature with Kurutta Taiyou in 1991. Darker Than Darkness: Style 93 delved into a harsher industrial rock sound which continued all the way up through Mona Lisa Overdrive in 2003. With 2005's Juusankai wa Gekkou , they completely adopted

31512-514: The songs, "Itoshi no Rock Star", featured Issay of Der Zibet on backing vocals, he also appeared with the band on the tour. After the Somewhere Nowhere 1995 Tour was held from May to August, Buck-Tick released Catalogue 1987–1995 on December 1 as their first compilation album. After having left Shaking Hands, Buck-Tick started their own management company, Banker Ltd., on January 31, 1996, and appointed Toll as its president. They also started

31714-488: The spring of 1984. Once they had practiced enough to be able to play, they began to perform live at small, local events. They started out playing covers of songs by the famous Japanese punk band The Stalin . From the beginning, they were conscious of their image and tried to differentiate themselves from other bands. They performed in suits with their hair up and soon added white face makeup, as well. When Imai graduated high school, he moved to Tokyo with Araki and enrolled in

31916-417: The standard character " 桜 " ("sakura") to the older version " 櫻 ", and from then on brought a continuously evolving sense of melancholy and psychological depth to the band's lyrics. Kurutta Taiyou was released on February 21, 1991. Three singles were released, " Speed ", " M・A・D " and " Jupiter ". Four days after the release of the album, the band performed a unique concert called Satellite Circuit, which

32118-522: The strategy worked, as Buck-Tick sold 400 tickets in advance, and another 400 on the day of the show. After this success, major labels began to be interested in the band. Major labels had begun scouting the band, but they wanted to continue pursuing music on their own terms and refused to sign unless the label would agree to their four conditions: first, that the band would be able to make their own decisions about their hair, makeup, clothing, and general image; second, that they would never be forced to change

32320-515: The studio in the fall of 1989 and recorded their next studio album. They played their first concert since Imai's arrest at the Gunma Music Center in their home prefecture on December 20. Nine days later, they played a Buck-Tick Phenomenon concert at the Tokyo Dome in front of 43,000 people, the largest concert the band had ever played up to that point. Nearly every year since, Buck-Tick have held

32522-410: The studio to work on their sixth studio album, Kurutta Taiyou . They spent 800 hours making it, much more than any of their previous albums. The difference was noticeable as the sound is much deeper and more sophisticated, using many more studio production effects than they did previously. It was at this point that the direction of the band began to change subtly, as Sakurai began to write almost all of

32724-400: The subsequent decades). Their visually attractive bishounen – androgynous appearance related to visual kei was best embodied in the presence and charisma of the band's "handsome" frontman Sakurai. With his distinctive rich baritone voice, music critics from Metropolis included Sakurai in their Pantheon of 13 Japanese Rock Gods in 2011. Imai and Hoshino are the main composers of music in

32926-562: The three headlining acts coming together, but because the then up-and-coming guest acts, The Yellow Monkey , L'Arc-en-Ciel , The Mad Capsule Markets and Die in Cries , all went on to achieve success. Released on May 15, 1995, Six/Nine was an even more psychological, conceptual album than Darker Than Darkness: Style 93 had been. Before the album was released, the band performed another set of video concerts, featuring equally conceptual music videos for each song, directed by Wataru Hayashi. One of

33128-610: The three-octave voice of Annie Haslam . Most British bands depended on a relatively small cult following, but a handful, including Pink Floyd, Genesis, and Jethro Tull, managed to produce top ten singles at home and break the American market. The American brand of progressive rock varied from the eclectic and innovative Frank Zappa , Captain Beefheart and Blood, Sweat & Tears , to more pop rock orientated bands like Boston , Foreigner , Kansas , Journey , and Styx . These, beside British bands Supertramp and ELO , all demonstrated

33330-461: The title Tour '97 Red Room 2097. On November 12, they released their thirteenth single " Heroin ". On December 10, they released the studio album Sexy Stream Liner , marking the maturation of their new cyberpunk style, which emerged in their visual image as well, with the band sporting fake tattoos and electronic gadgetry on their costumes. Imai began to incorporate the use of a theremin into Buck-Tick's live shows and their recordings, beginning with

33532-479: The top five charting double A-side single " Kemonotachi no Yoru/Rondo " was released. On January 29, 2020, Buck-Tick released the single " Datenshi " and their third tribute album Parade III -Respective Tracks of Buck-Tick- . A fan club tour was announced, but postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan . Another single, "Moonlight Escape", was released on August 26. Abracadabra , their twenty-second studio album,

33734-583: The top three positions on the Oricon Albums Chart. They performed on the first night of the hide 20th Memorial Super Live Spirits event at Tokyo Otaiba Yagai Tokusetsu Stage J Chikuon on April 28, in memory of X Japan guitarist hide . On December 9, 2018, Sakurai was visibly unwell during Buck Tick's concert at Zepp Divercity, but insisted on finishing the performance. After the concert, he was diagnosed with gastrointestinal bleeding and subsequent shows had to be postponed for his treatment. On May 22, 2019,

33936-431: The tribute album. Each of the guest artists and Buck-Tick played a set, and as a grand finale, there was a fireworks show over the bay. Soon after, on September 19, 2007, Buck-Tick released their fifteenth studio album, Tenshi no Revolver . Though they continued using a few gothic elements, they discarded the use of synth and digital elements for this album, the concept for which was a "straight band sound". The band held

34138-409: The vehicle for cultural and social movements, leading to major subcultures including mods and rockers in the U.K., the hippie movement and the wider Western counterculture movement that spread out from San Francisco in the U.S. in the 1960s, the latter of which continues to this day. Similarly, 1970s punk culture spawned the goth , punk, and emo subcultures. Inheriting the folk tradition of

34340-403: The venue that day, before cancelling it following Sakurai's death. However, after discussions between the band members and their staff, Buck-Tick decided to rebook the performance under the new title. The concert was performed using live recordings of Sakurai's vocals and the surviving members announced that they will continue together as Buck-Tick. They also revealed that they would start recording

34542-577: The vocalist because of his looks, but Hoshino was more interested in playing the guitar, and did not want to be in the spotlight, so Imai's friend Araki became the vocalist instead. Atsushi Sakurai , a rebellious loner in Imai's class who hung out with the bad-kid yankī crowd, volunteered to be the drummer. The members all went to Gunma Kenritsu Fujioka High School, the same high school that Kyosuke Himuro of fellow Gunma band Boøwy had attended. Imai named their band Hinan Go-Go ( 非難GO-GO , "Criticism Go-Go") in

34744-491: The wave of the anime boom, Japanese music began to gain popularity in the West via the internet, and "Gessekai" became the song that first introduced Buck-Tick to many foreign fans. Sweet Strange Live Disc , the band's first live album, was released on August 12, 1998. Like the second half of 1998, 1999 saw little activity from Buck-Tick. They contributed a cover of " Doubt " to May's hide tribute album Tribute Spirits , released

34946-524: The work of the Beach Boys , formed in 1961 in Southern California. Their early albums included both instrumental surf rock (among them covers of music by Dick Dale) and vocal songs, drawing on rock and roll and doo wop and the close harmonies of vocal pop acts like the Four Freshmen . The Beach Boys first chart hit, " Surfin ' " in 1961 reached the Billboard top 100 and helped make the surf music craze

35148-533: The work of established performers such as the Rolling Stones' Beggar's Banquet (1968) and the Beatles' Let It Be (1970). Reflecting on this change of trends in rock music over the past few years, Christgau wrote in his June 1970 "Consumer Guide" column that this "new orthodoxy" and "cultural lag" abandoned improvisatory, studio-ornamented productions in favor of an emphasis on "tight, spare instrumentation" and song composition: "Its referents are '50s rock, country music, and rhythm-and-blues, and its key inspiration

35350-404: The world, except as a new brand of painkiller ... In the '70s the powerful took over, as rock industrialists capitalized on the national mood to reduce potent music to an often reactionary species of entertainment—and to transmute rock's popular base from the audience to market." Roots rock is the term now used to describe a move away from what some saw as the excesses of the psychedelic scene, to

35552-494: The year with four Day in Question concerts that served as a prelude to their 25th anniversary. To celebrate their 25th anniversary, Buck-Tick opened a special website where they announced the creation of their own record label Lingua Sounda, and that its first releases would be a single in spring 2012 and an album in the summer. The Lingua Sounda logo was designed by manga artist Tsutomu Nihei . The band released two separate box sets in March, one containing work from 1987 to 1999 and

35754-570: Was John Mayall ; his band, the Bluesbreakers , included Eric Clapton (after Clapton's departure from the Yardbirds) and later Peter Green . Particularly significant was the release of Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton (Beano) album (1966), considered one of the seminal British blues recordings and the sound of which was much emulated in both Britain and the United States. Eric Clapton went on to form supergroups Cream, Blind Faith , and Derek and

35956-676: Was 1963's " Wipe Out ", by the Surfaris , which hit number 2 and number 10 on the Billboard charts in 1965. Surf rock was also popular in Europe during this time, with the British group the Shadows scoring hits in the early 1960s with instrumentals such as " Apache " (1960) and " Kon-Tiki " (1961), while Swedish surf group the Spotnicks saw success in both Sweden and Britain. Surf music achieved its greatest commercial success as vocal pop music, particularly

36158-473: Was a major influence on subsequent rock-influenced jazz artists, including Herbie Hancock , Chick Corea and Weather Report . The genre began to fade in the late 1970s, as a mellower form of fusion began to take its audience, but acts like Steely Dan , Frank Zappa and Joni Mitchell recorded significant jazz-influenced albums in this period, and it has continued to be a major influence on rock music. Reflecting on developments that occurred in rock music in

36360-430: Was an influence in the 1980s on new wave , post-punk and eventually alternative rock . From the 1990s, alternative rock began to dominate rock music and break into the mainstream in the form of grunge , Britpop , and indie rock . Further fusion subgenres have since emerged, including pop-punk , electronic rock , rap rock , and rap metal . Some movements were conscious attempts to revisit rock's history, including

36562-652: Was based on themselves, and they used it as an opportunity to play their older songs. They released the EP Romanesque on March 21. Having now recorded all of the songs they had, production of their third studio album was more difficult. However, Seventh Heaven peaked at number three on the chart when it was released on June 21, 1988. It was Tanaka's idea to release three albums and no singles in their first two years at Victor. Buck-Tick's first major label single " Just One More Kiss ", became their first hit in October 1988. The band made their first live television appearance

36764-424: Was continued in the 1970s by figures such as George Thorogood and Pat Travers , but, particularly on the British scene (except perhaps for the advent of groups such as Status Quo and Foghat who moved towards a form of high energy and repetitive boogie rock ), bands became focused on heavy metal innovation, and blues rock began to slip out of the mainstream. By the 1960s, the scene that had developed out of

36966-406: Was fired and Sakurai replaced him, Yutaka convinced Yagami to join as their drummer. The line-up has remained the same since, and Buck-Tick are commonly credited as one of the founders of the visual kei movement. Throughout Buck-Tick's long career, Yagami's only writing credits have been lyrics for two songs; "Feast of Demoralization" (on Taboo ) and "Dizzy Moon" (on Aku no Hana ). Yagami

37168-461: Was followed by several successful albums almost all of which topped the charts, Aku no Hana (1990, which includes the song of the same name ; the band's only number-one single), Kurutta Taiyou (1991), Darker Than Darkness: Style 93 (1993), Six/Nine (1995), as well as the remixed album Hurry Up Mode (1990 Mix) and the compilation album Koroshi no Shirabe: This Is Not Greatest Hits (1992). Buck-Tick reached their commercial peak in

37370-561: Was founded in Britain), and Band of Gypsys , whose guitar virtuosity and showmanship would be among the most emulated of the decade. Blues rock bands from the southern states, like the Allman Brothers Band , Lynyrd Skynyrd , and ZZ Top , incorporated country elements into their style to produce the distinctive genre Southern rock . Early blues rock bands often emulated jazz, playing long, involved improvisations, which would later be

37572-536: Was inactive for the band until September, when they played the Climax Together 3rd concert at Yokohama Arena to 13,000 people on September 11, 12 years after their second Climax Together show and 24 years after the first, released the single "New World" on September 21, and released their twentieth studio album Atom Miraiha No.9 on September 28. The album peaked at number nine on the Oricon Albums Chart and

37774-455: Was largely inactive in 1994, although the members worked on other projects. Sakurai and Hoshino contributed to the solo album of Der Zibet's vocalist Issay, Yagami and Higuchi performed separate gigs with Shigeru Nakano, while Imai's side-project Schaft (initially formed in 1991 with Maki Fujii of Soft Ballet) released their first album Switchblade . Buck-Tick performed two outdoor shows at Fuji-Q Highland Conifer Forest on July 31 and August 7,

37976-459: Was on August 4, 1985 at Shinjuku Jam in Tokyo. But drummer Sakurai had his mind set on becoming a singer. Higuchi's brother Toll Yagami was in a band called SP, and when they lost their vocalist, Sakurai asked Yagami if he could be the replacement. Yagami politely refused his request, and SP broke up. However, at the same time, the rest of Buck-Tick were becoming frustrated with Araki. As Imai's composing skills improved, Araki became unable to carry

38178-594: Was on this tour that the band became conscious of their stage shows, and the first where they employed stage risers so that each member could be seen from a distance. At the end of the year, Buck-Tick were one of the recipients of the Newcomer Award at the 30th Japan Record Awards , which also made them nominees for Best New Artist . Taboo , the band's fourth studio album, was previously recorded in London in September 1988 with producer Owen Paul . The band had also played

38380-403: Was recorded in a studio with no audience and then broadcast on television and at special concert halls around the country. The album's lengthy tour ended in June 1991. In November and December, the Club Quattro Buck-Tick tour saw them play three dates at the titular small live houses in Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka. At the end of the year, Kurutta Taiyou earned the band a nomination for Best Album at

38582-406: Was released on March 2, 2005, and was followed on April 6 with the release of Juusankai wa Gekkou , the band's fourteenth studio album. It is a concept album inspired by Sakurai's solo project that focused on the idea of " Goth ", and despite the residual gothic image Buck-Tick had been cultivating for years, it was a significant departure from any of their previous work. Special care was taken with

38784-406: Was released on September 21, and reached number three on the Oricon chart. The members of the band appear in and provided the theme song to Peach Booty G , an anime shown at a virtual reality / augmented reality event in Nagoya TV Tower beginning on November 6. In September 2021, they released their forty-first single titled " Go-Go BT Train ", which reached number five. A lengthy nation-wide tour

38986-570: Was scheduled to begin at the end of October despite the continued COVID-19 pandemic. However, it was ultimately cancelled after doctors recommended Imai undergo further rehabilitation for a left femur fracture he sustained in August. In June 2022, the band announced its plans for the 35th anniversary of their debut. On September 21, they released a special concept 5-disc compilation album titled Catalogue The Best 35th Anniv. (with 80 songs on discs named in Esperanto as Ribelo , Gotika , Elektrizo , Fantazio , Espero ), which reached number eight on

39188-415: Was scheduled to take place between October and December. On October 19, 2023, during a concert at KT Zepp Yokohama that was exclusively for members of Buck-Tick's fan club, Sakurai was rushed to a hospital due to sudden signs of illness, abruptly ending the performance after only three songs. He died from a brainstem hemorrhage at the hospital later that night, at the age of 57. His death was announced by

39390-442: Was supported by a 28-date tour that lasted from October 8 to December 29. Buck-Tick won the special "Inspiration Award Japan" at the 2017 MTV Video Music Awards Japan . Their single "Babel" was released on November 15, 2017. Following the February 21, 2018, release of their single "Moon Sayonara wo Oshiete", Buck-Tick's twenty-first studio album No.0 was released on March 14. It became their first album in almost 25 years to reach

39592-411: Was taken up by bands including Pentangle , Steeleye Span and the Albion Band , which in turn prompted Irish groups like Horslips and Scottish acts like the JSD Band , Spencer's Feat and later Five Hand Reel , to use their traditional music to create a brand of Celtic rock in the early 1970s. Folk-rock reached its peak of commercial popularity in the period 1967–68, before many acts moved off in

39794-548: Was taking place globally in the aftermath of the Second World War . Cliff Richard is credited with one of the first rock and roll hits outside of North America with " Move It " (1959), effectively ushering in the sound of British rock . Several artists, most prominently Tommy Steele from the UK, found success with covers of major American rock and roll hits before the recordings could spread internationally, often translating them into local languages where appropriate. Steele in particular toured Britain, Scandinavia, Australia,

39996-439: Was the first commercially successful folk song to be recorded with rock and roll instrumentation and the Beatles " I'm a Loser " (1964), arguably the first Beatles song to be influenced directly by Dylan. The folk rock movement is usually thought to have taken off with the Byrds ' recording of Dylan's " Mr. Tambourine Man " which topped the charts in 1965. With members who had been part of the café-based folk scene in Los Angeles,

40198-448: Was the head of Banker, the management company that Buck-Tick formed in 1996. Yagami was inspired at an early age by classic rock such as The Beatles , Creedence Clearwater Revival , and Deep Purple . He held drum clinics in Japan in May 1994 and the summer of 1999. He has also played on the 1999 album Super Rock Summit ~Tengoku he no Kaidan~ ( Super Rock Summit〜天国への階段〜 ) (tribute album for John Bonham of Led Zeppelin ), performing

40400-430: Was the major force in American record sales and crooners , such as Eddie Fisher , Perry Como , and Patti Page , who had dominated the previous decade of popular music, found their access to the pop charts significantly curtailed. Rock and roll has been seen as leading to a number of distinct subgenres, including rockabilly, combining rock and roll with "hillbilly" country music, which was usually played and recorded in

40602-504: Was the only member who did not release music during this time, but he went on to form the band Dropz two years later in 2006. Buck-Tick did release their third live album At the Night Side in April, and play four concerts that year; one at Yokohama Arena on September 11, which was a reprise of their Climax Together shows 12 years earlier and was released on home video as Akuma to Freud -Devil and Freud- Climax Together , and three Day in Question shows in December. The single " Romance "

40804-424: Was used as the opening theme for the Shiki anime adaptation. On October 13, the band released its seventeenth studio album titled Razzle Dazzle . For the most part, it continued the straightforward rock sound, but also contained many instances of dance-rock or dance music . The Go On the "Razzle Dazzle" tour began on October 15 and ran until December. December also saw Buck-Tick cover "Omae no Inu ni Naru" for

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