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ジューシィ・フルーツ


Members: Atsuko Okuno (aka Ilya) (奥野敦子) - vocals, guitar Toshihiko Shibaya ) (柴矢俊彦) - Guitar Yuji Okiyama (沖山優司) - Bass Toshio Takagi (高木利夫) - Drums Japanese band ジューシィ・フルーツ (Juicy Fruits) represent an important turning point in the development of Japanese pop music. Formed by the backing members of producer and musician Chikada Haruo's band Beef, the group took the then new techno-pop sounds pioneered by P-Model, the Plastics, and Hikashu, and combined them with a songwriting sensibility that drew from Japanese kayoukyoku (postwar, Western-influenced mainstream pop) and group sounds ('60s and '70s bands inspired by the Beatles and the Beach Boys). They are best known for their influential 1980 debut single ジェニーはご機嫌ななめ, (Jenny wa Gokigen Naname) In Okuno Atsuko, also known by the nickname Illya, after the character from the '60s TV action show The Man from U.N.C.L.E., the group had a charismatic frontwoman who opened the way for female guitarists in Japanese rock bands, projecting an image that was both calculatedly cute and girlish, but at the same time, she projected an unapologetic air of independence with her punk-styled hair and coquettish asides. Guitarist Shibaya Toshihiko, bassist Okiyama Yuji, and drummer Takagi Toshio completed the lineup. Juicy Fruits' hit debut single was swiftly followed up by the albums Drink! and Juicy a la Mode, both released the same year, and while the band never fo...

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