The Alfee, a Japanese rock bamd, formed in 1973. They debuted on August 25, 1974
as Alfie with the single “Natsu Shigure” and followed with their first album
青春の記憶 (1975), but label tensions in the mid-1970s stalled their momentum until a
restart with a new deal and the single “ラブレター = Love Letter” in 1979. Their
commercial breakthrough arrived in 1983 with “メリーアン = Marie-Anne” which also led
to high-profile TV exposure and kicked off decades of large-scale live activity,
including a famed 100,000-attendance Tokyo Bay show in 1986 and a long-running
tradition of Budokan performan...