The Spiders were a Japan

Japan

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ese band

Musical ensemble

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 in the Group Sounds

Group Sounds

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 era, who were one of the top three bands of that genre, a cultural pop music

Pop music

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 scene unique to Japan.

Band members were Hiroshi "Monsieur" Kamayatsu (rhythm guitar

Rhythm guitar

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 and backing singer), Jun Inouye (singer), Masaaki Sakai

Masaaki Sakai

is a popular Japanese performer from Tokyo. He is best known to English-speaking audiences as the title star of the TV show Monkey.- Biography :...

 (tambourine

Tambourine

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 and backing singer), Shochi Tanabe (drum

Drum

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s), Takayuki Inouye (lead guitar

Lead guitar

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 and backing singer), Mitsuru Kato (bass guitar

Bass guitar

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) and Katsuo Ono (steel guitar

Steel guitar

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 and electric organ

Electric organ

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). They had many hit single

Hit single

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s, made feature film

Film

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s and were popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s in Japan. They toured Europe

Europe

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 in 1966, and the United States

United States

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, including Hawaii

Hawaii

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, in 1967. All of the band members are still active in the music industry.

Their biggest selling record

Gramophone record

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 was "Yuhi Ga Naiteiru" which sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc

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Albums

• Album No. 1 (April 1966)
• Album No. 2 (May 1966)
• Daishingeki (soundtrack) (1967)
• Album No. 3 (February 1967)
• The Spiders Meets The Savages (March 1967)
• Album No. 4 (September 1967)
• Album No. 5 (March 1968)