Juicy Fruits

Best known for their influential 1980 debut single "Jenny wa Gokigen Naname," Japanese band Juicy Fruits represent an important turning point in the development of Japanese pop music. Formed by the backing members of producer and musician Chikada Haruo's band Beef, the group took the then new techno-pop sounds pioneered by P-Model, the Plastics, and Hikashu, and combined them with a songwriting sensibility that drew from Japanese kayoukyoku (postwar, Western-influenced mainstream pop) and group sounds ('60s and '70s bands inspired by the Beatles). In Okuno Atsuko, also known ...