{"product_id":"4988031898437","title":"Boowy - 『\"GIGS\" JUST A HERO TOUR 1986』40TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION:2 CD - Japan 2 SHM-CD","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCredits:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoowy\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDescription:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA new-era “GIGS” album, recreating the legendary box set from 1986, is being revived in the Reiwa era as a 40th-anniversary edition. Forty years ago... July 2, 1986. Wednesday. Having risen from the live house scene, the rapidly rising band BOOWY (Kyosuke Himuro, Tomoyasu Hotei, Tsunematsu Matsui, Makoto Takahashi) performed a solo concert at Nippon Budokan. It was that night when, toward the end of the show, during their performance of “IMAGE DOWN,” the famous line “Welcome to the Budokan from the live house!” rang out. Since the concert was sold out, the band wanted to quickly share the excitement of the show with fans across the country who couldn’t attend. One month after the concert, they released the live album *“GIGS” JUST A HERO TOUR 1986* in a special edition featuring a record (green cover), a CD (purple cover), and cassette tape (red cover)—all three in record-box size and featuring a photo book—as the live album “GIGS” JUST A HERO TOUR 1986 just one month after the show. This package was a limited edition of 100,000 sets and sold out instantly at record stores nationwide, making it a legendary, hard-to-find item. This was an era when people said live albums didn’t sell. However, BOOWY’s meteoric rise showed no signs of slowing down, and this album became a collector’s item on the secondhand market. It became an exceptional work whose price skyrocketed to astronomical levels ranging from 100,000 to 1,000,000 yen. Subsequently, the band’s albums *BEAT EMOTION* and *PSYCHOPATH* became massive hits. BOOWY’s presence had become a social phenomenon, but the band—having reached the pinnacle of their success—announced their breakup on December 24, 1987, at Shibuya Public Hall. On April 5 and 6, 1988, they performed their final concert at the newly completed Tokyo Dome. Although the band was no longer active, fans continued to demand a reissue of the limited-edition “GIGS” album. In 1989, “GIGS: JUST A HERO TOUR 1986” was re-released on CD and reached No. 1 on the Oricon charts. Cumulative sales eventually exceeded 1.01 million copies. For BOOWY—who had not released a single greatest hits album until 1998, a full 10 years later—*“GIGS” JUST A HERO TOUR 1986*, which allowed listeners to experience their classic live songs with the utmost sense of realism, served as the catalyst that accelerated the BOOWY myth for latecomers who had wanted to see their live shows but couldn’t, and became the decisive factor in propelling their legend to new heights.\n*** Translated with www.DeepL.com\/Translator (free version) ***\n\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Universal Music","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53048519229729,"sku":"4988031898437","price":155.0,"currency_code":"PLN","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0568\/8482\/2076\/files\/4988031898437.jpg?v=1786271503","url":"https:\/\/cdsvinyljapan.com\/en-pl\/products\/4988031898437","provider":"CDs Vinyl Japan Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}