JAPROCKSAMPLER

HOW THE POST-WAR JAPANESE BLEW THEIR MINDS ON ROCK'N'ROLL

JULIAN COPE

CONTENTS

• Acknowledgements
• Introduction


• BOOK ONE


1. MacArthur's Children
2. Experimental Japan (1961-69)
3. The Eleki Story
4. The Group Sounds Story


• BOOK TWO


5. Come Together 1969
6. Flower Travellin' Band
7. Les Rallizes Denudés
8. Speed, Glue & Shinki
9. Taj Mahal Travellers & Takehisa Kosugi
10. J.A. Caesar & the Radical Theatre Music of Japan
11. Masahiko Satoh & the Free-Thinkers' Union
12. Far East Family Band


• Author's Top 50
• Clunkers, White Elephants, Another Man's Sac: Albums to Avoid
• Bibliography