Japanese rock (Japanese: 日本 の ロッ ク Hepburn: Nihon no Rokku), sometimes abbreviated J-rock (ジ ェ イ ・ ロッ ク Jei Rokku), is rock music from Japan. Influenced by American and British rock of the 1960s, the first rock bands to perform in Japan were called Group Sounds, whose lyrics were almost entirely in English. The folk-rock band Happy End in the early 1970s is considered the first to sing rock music in the Japanese lang
... MoreJapanese rock (Japanese: 日本 の ロッ ク Hepburn: Nihon no Rokku), sometimes abbreviated J-rock (ジ ェ イ ・ ロッ ク Jei Rokku), is rock music from Japan. Influenced by American and British rock of the 1960s, the first rock bands to perform in Japan were called Group Sounds, whose lyrics were almost entirely in English. The folk-rock band Happy End in the early 1970s is considered the first to sing rock music in the Japanese language.
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