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40 years ago today, the Bee Gees played at Budokan, Tokyo, as the second of the four concerts they played in Japan that year. They visited Japan as part of what is known as the Trafalgar Tour. Actually, that is the one and only time for this fabulous trio of brothers to play at Budokan. It was a chilly March night. The opening act was Shiro Kishibe and Bread & Butter from Japan, probably because of their Tigers (or Polydor) connection.
To commemorate the 40th (!) anniversary of their first Japanese tour, we'll be doing a two-part piece about their 8-day stay in Japan. (For our questionnaire last year, we had quite a few people requesting more information about their four Japanese tours. So here it is.)
Incidentally, the article on the right is not about their Budokan appearance, but about their very first concert from the evening before at Shibuya Kokaido Hall, probably from one of the two FM magazines, Weekly FM or FM Fan, available at that time. (After all this time we are not really sure which. We should have written on the back of the cutting where it was taken. A lesson learned too late as it so often happens in life.)
