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Yoshiki, glam-rocker responsible for 'changing Japan's culture,' eyes U.S. stardom with supergroup the Last Rockstars: 'It's kind of cool to break some kind of boundary again'
"The wall between East to West … I think the walls are getting lower and thinner," states the most successful rock artist in Japanese history, who hasn’t given up on his dream of "going global."
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Marilyn Manson joins X Japan for “Sweet Dreams” at Coachella: Watch
Shock rocker joins the legendary Japanese outfit for a stripped-down rendition of the Eurythmics classic.
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Big in Japan: Visual-Kei All-Stars Rock the Visual Japan Summit
Yoshiki, Japan's top rock star and the founder of the most successful rock band in Japanese history, the 30-million-selling X Japan, is sitting in a lounge at the Shibuya Hikarie skyscraper on the opening day of Tokyo Fashion Week. In three days prior, X Japan curated and headlined the first annual Visual Japan Summit, a festival of more than 50 "visual-kei" bands drawing nearly 100,000 fans (and surprise guest Gene Simmons) to Makuhari Messe, Japan's largest convention center.
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Yoshiki, Gene Simmons Unite Via Shared Love of Rock, ‘We Are X’ Film, Hello Kitty Dolls
Sitting side by side at X Japan founder Yoshiki Hayashi’s Los Angeles recording studio to discuss the new X Japan rockumentary We Are X, Yoshiki and KISS bassist/mouthpiece Gene Simmons don’t seem to have much in common. Gene is loud, brash, and 6’2” even sans his signature platform-footed dragon boots. Miracles can happen,” grins Yoshiki, seated beside Simmons and a cluster of Hello Kitty figurines at one of his deluxe studio’s many grand pianos.