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Great Teacher Onizuka

, officially abbreviated as GTO, is a Japanese shōnen manga written and illustrated by Tohru Fujisawa. It was originally serialized in Weekly Shōnen Magazine from May 1997 to April 2002. The story focuses on 22-year-old ex-bōsōzoku member Eikichi Onizuka, who becomes a teacher at a private high...

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are a Japanese kayōkyoku

Kayokyoku

is a Japanese pop music genre, which became a base of modern J-pop. The Japan Times describes kayōkyoku as "standard Japanese pop" or "Showa era pop".Kayōkyoku is Western-style-inspired music of Japan. Music in this genre is extremely varied as a result...

 group, formed by the late Hiroshi Uchiyamada (born Michio Uchiyamada, 1936–2006) in 1967 and fronted by the lead vocalist Kiyoshi Maekawa

Kiyoshi Maekawa

is a Japanese singer and tarento.He is best known as the first lead vocalist of Hiroshi Uchiyamada and Cool Five, which was formed in 1967 and debuted in 1969 with the Japan Record Award-winning song "Nagasaki wa Kyō mo Ame Datta"...

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In 1969, the group debuted with the 11th Japan Record Award

Japan Record Award

for outstanding achievements in the Japan Composer's Association, is major music awards show held annually in Japan.- Categories :The Japan Record Award are four awards which are not restricted by genre....

-winning song "Nagasaki wa Kyou mo Ame datta".
They enjoyed highly successful career mainly during the first half of 1970s, producing numerous hit singles including "Awazu ni Aishite", "Uwasa no Onna","Soshite, Kōbe", "Nakanoshima Blues" and "Tokyo Sabaku". They lost popularity after the leaving of a frontman in the late 1980s, and their career went into hiatus after the band lineup was radically altered around the 1990s.

After a founder of the band died of lung cancer

Lung cancer

Lung cancer is a disease characterized by uncontrolled cell growth in tissues of the lung. If left untreated, this growth can spread beyond the lung in a process called metastasis into nearby tissue and, eventually, into other parts of the body. Most cancers that start in lung, known as primary...

 in 2006, the remainders including Maekawa reunited.

Band members

1967–1987	(birthname: - guitars, vocals(August 19, 1948 –) - lead vocals(January 1, 1943 –) - bass guitar, vocals(January 15, 1948 –) - keyboards, piano, vocals(January 5, 1943 –) - saxophone, flute, vocals(January 23, 1942 –) - drums, vocals

Charting singles on the Japanese Oricon

Year	Single	Chart positions
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• The group released over 50 singles until Kiyoshi Maekawa left the band in 1987, and those sales have been estimated more than 5.9 million copies.