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The Blue Hearts was a popular Japanese upbeat punk rock band. Its members were Hiroto Koumoto (vocalist), Masatoshi Mashima (guitarist), Juunosuke Kawaguchi (drummer) and Tetsuya Kajiwara (bassist). The group made its major debut in May 1987. The Blue Hearts broke up in 1995; members Koumoto and Mashima then became the founding members of another band, The High-Lows.

Some of their songs are popular to some extent, specially Train-Train, which nowadays can be found at many karaokes.

External links

Band website at Tri-M (record company)

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-'''The Blue Hearts''' (ザ・ブルー・ハーツ or THE BLUE HEARTS) were a popular [[Japan]]ese upbeat [[punk rock]] band.  The group's members were [[Hiroto Koumoto]] (vocalist), Masatoshi Mashima (guitarist), Junnosuke Kawaguchi (bassist) and Tetsuya Kajiwara (drummer). They made their major debut in May [[1987]]. The Blue Hearts broke up in [[1994]]; members Koumoto and Mashima then became the founding members of another band, [[The High-Lows]].
+'''The Blue Hearts''' was a popular [[Japan]]ese upbeat [[punk rock]] band.  Its members were Hiroto Koumoto (vocalist), Masatoshi Mashima (guitarist), Juunosuke Kawaguchi (drummer) and Tetsuya Kajiwara (bassist). The group made its major debut in May [[1987]]. The Blue Hearts broke up in [[1995]]; members Koumoto and Mashima then became the founding members of another band, [[The High-Lows]].
-Many of their songs are popular, especially ''Train-Train'' and ''リンダリンダ (Linda, Linda) ''which nowadays can be found at many [[karaoke]] parlors.  Their first major hit was 1987's "Linda Linda," which was the only song of theirs to be played on any radio outside Asia. Simple, three-chord [[punk-rock]] in the vein of [[The Ramones]] with more of a [[The Clash]] level of polish was their style.
+Some of their songs are popular to some extent, specially ''Train-Train'', which nowadays can be found at many [[karaoke|karaokes]].
-The band broke up immediately following a show at the [[Nippon Budokan]] on [[June 18th]], 1994. At the climax of the show, the drummer, [[Tetsuya Kajiwara]], asked all the members of the audience to join a specific religious cult and then promptly disappeared. The band was left in shambles; bassist Kawaguchi decided to quit. Hiroto Koumoto and Masatoshi Mashima parted ways, only to reunite a year later (with a new drummer and bassist) as [[The High-Lows]].
-Drummer Tetsuya Kajiwara would return to public life, mysteriously, ten years after The Blue Hearts broke up, as the drummer for [[Salsa Gum Tape]], a Japanese freak-out [[psychedelic]] [[punk-rock]] act that features actual [[Buddhist]] monks on [[guitar]] and a chorus of thirteen [[mentally retarded]] people banging assorted percussion. As a measure of good will, Hiroto Koumoto sang lead vocals and played harmonica during a secret show at Red Zone, a club in [[Tokyo]]'s [[Otsuka]] ward, in February of [[2005]], with guest guitarist Masatoshi Mashima and guest bassist Junnosuke Kawaguchi. This, then, would be The Blue Hearts' most recent performance.
-Nine months later, on the night of [[November 12th]], [[2005]], [[The High-Lows]] announced they were breaking up. At their last show, Hiroto reportedly told the audience that he will "never give up on rock and roll", that The High-Lows have represented his selfish attempt to keep himself rocking for his own sake, and that there was a "great something" that he "gave up many years ago", and that it was time to begin finishing that. Fans have been speculating since the show in Otsuka early in 2005, and are convinced that The Blue Hearts are going to reunite. It is clear that Kajiwara and Hiroto are on speaking terms again, and it is also clear that Kawaguchi's efforts to produce independent Japanese punk bands like [[The Sanyons]] have all been in vain. A year before their break-up, The High-Lows' pianist, Mikio Shirai, quit the band, and shortly after that, they put out a single that sounded like a more mature Blue Hearts song.
 == External links ==
 * [http://www.tri-m.co.jp/artists/blue_hearts/blue_hearts.html Band website at Tri-M (record company)]
-* [http://www.largeprimenumbers.com/article.php?sid=changingtheworld article about japanese rock into which the blue hearts figure prominently]
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