ザ・ジャガーズ

The Jaguars were one of most famous GS bands; many older Japanese remember their debut song “Want You See Again (Kimi ni Aitai)”. They sung some moody hit songs and wrote punk ballads like “My Dawn”. On the other hand, they were compared to Dave, Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich. (In Japanese they were called the Dave Dee group for short). The Jaguars covered “Zabadak”, “Legend of Xanadu” .This Japanese cover version of Xanadu was a #20 hit. Actually, it was the flip side of another song. The lead singer Shin Okamoto attracted teen girls with his good looks and singing with whip like Dave Dee. Also they covered ‘’Tobacco Road” which is on the “Big Lizard Stomp” compilation, similar to the Blues Magoos, “Blue Feeling” (Slitherama), “See See Rider” (Banzai Freak Beat). They appeared in their own movie “Jaguars Tekizen Jyouriku” in ‘68, a comedy which was influenced by the Beatles’ “Help!”. But soon after, the leader/drummer Miya quit the band due to a conflict with the other members. He wrote their early original “Beat Train”. He formed a new group called New Jaguars and released a few singles, but they weren’t successful. In their later years, the GS boom had peaked, so they recorded popular songs and after some personnel changes, they disbanded in '71. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.