Author: Mika Akao
Size: A5 variant
Number of pages: 352 pages

Starting from the world of film, he photographed Marilyn Monroe when she visited Japan,
From the 60s with the Beatles and the Stones, to the 70s with Kiss and Queen, to the 80s with Bon Jovi and Wham!
And then there's photographer Hiroshi Hasebe, who has been photographing numerous artists in the rock world for many years, including Oasis and Blur in the 1990s.
This book, which uses his photographs and reminiscence interviews to highlight the history of "Western music in Japan,"
This is a photo biography that is both worth seeing and reading.
The author is Mika Akao, a former member of the Music Life editorial staff who visited many of the locations together with Hasebe.

[CONTENTS]
Ko Hasebe, the outspoken Edokko photographer

1960s
The Beatles/The Rolling Stones/Jimi Hendrix/The Who and more
A warm welcome on overseas business trips
The Walkers failed to become the next Beatles

1970s
Led Zeppelin / Queen / Santana / Eric Clapton / The Rolling Stones / David Bowie / Kiss / Cheap Trick / Aerosmith / Wings / Van Halen and more
Growing LP sales, immature audience
The popular idol said, "If you want to shoot, give me money."

1980s
The Police / The Jam ~ Style Council / Japan / Duran Duran / Inxcess / White Snake / Bon Jovi and more
Did video kill the radio star?
Subdividing genres, a chaotic scene

1990s
Blur/Oasis/Radiohead/Primal Scream/Sonic Youth and more
I don't know anything about the Western music bible

■Author profile
Hiroshi Hasebe
Born in Tokyo in 1930.
Graduated from Tokyo College of Photography (now Tokyo Polytechnic University) in 1951.
He began his career as a cameraman at Kindai Eigasha.
In the fall of 1964, he went to France as a correspondent for the film magazine Screen.
During his stay, he happened to meet the late Masakazu Kusano (Shinko Music Entertainment),
He was asked to photograph The Beatles for an interview with the company's music magazine, MUSIC LIFE.
In 1965, he became the first Japanese person to photograph The Beatles at Abbey Road Studios.
*This data was published at the time this book was published.

Mika Akao
Born in Yokohama in 1965.
In January 1987, he started working part-time at the ML editorial department.
After that, he became a full-time employee at Shinko Music (at the time),
Responsible for interviews and articles on various artists.
He left the company in December 1996.
Since then, he has worked as a freelance writer and editor on music and film.
*This data was published at the time this book was published.