Rats & Star, originally formed as Chanels in 1975 by Masayuki Suzuki, Masashi
Tashiro, Yoshio Sato and Hiroyuki Kuboki, with Nobuyoshi Kuwano joining the
following year, was a Japanese male pop group that specialized in
doo-wop-influenced music. The band's debut single "Runaway" in 1980 sold over a
million copies and reached Number 1 on the Oricon Singles Chart. Signed to Epic
Records Japan, they went on to release popular singles such as "Megumi no
Hito"(1983), which also topped the Oricon chart, and "Lonely Chaplain" (1987), a
duet with Masayuki's sister Kiyomi Suzuki that beca...