“100 years of broadcasting! Covers Masterpiece LIVE Special” will be broadcast! Talk guests include BARBEE BOYS Imamichi Tomotaka & Kyoko.

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■NHK BS’s music program “The Covers” is the 11th cover special broadcast on general television!

NHK BS’s music program “The Covers” is the 11th cover special to be broadcast on general television “100 years of broadcasting! Covers Masterpiece LIVE Special (tentative)” will be broadcast on January 16, 2025.

With the “100th anniversary of broadcasting” approaching in March 2025, this time, we will be presenting live performances at “Covers Fest”, a “cover song festival” that the program has broadcast for 11 years, as well as famous performances that will be etched in the history of broadcasting. Plenty of covers of famous songs will be aired.

Artists associated with past “Covers Fest” will appear as talk guests. In 2024, Kiminori Sera, the man behind the spread of Japanese rock music on TV and in the living room, will appear on the “Winter Rock Festival” presented by Fukuyama City, Hiroshima Prefecture (broadcast on NHK BS from 10:30 p.m. on December 29th).

Their reunion at NHK Hall Fest in 2018 attracted a lot of attention, and Tomotaka Imamichi from BARBEE BOYS, who celebrated their 40th anniversary since their debut, and Kyoko, who is well-versed in covers of famous songs as a solo singer, made a rare appearance.

Then, Motohiro Hata, who appeared in “Covers Fest @ NHK Hall” in 2016 and 2020 and has covered many hit songs by Yumin, Yosui Inoue, etc., will appear.

Artists from across generations and genres gather in a “Meikyoku Cafe” style and enjoy great songs and performances together while discussing the history of Japanese music and its appeal.

Japanese music has prospered along with the history of broadcasting, which will reach 100 years in March 2025. From popular songs to rock, folk, new music, and J-POP, we deliver plenty of masterpieces that symbolize the times. That song I heard on TV that day… Enjoy memorable hit songs at the beginning of the new year 2025.

This day, January 16th, is “Cover’s Day”. Masaaki Sakai to MAGNETS, formed by Masaaki Sakai as his “last band in his life,” will make their first appearance on TV on NHK BS’s “Covers,” which will be broadcast from 9:30 p.m. Immediately after, “100 Years of Broadcasting!” will be broadcast on NHK General TV. Covers Masterpiece LIVE Special” will be aired.

On January 16th, let’s enjoy “Covers” from BS to general.

Program information

NHK general“100 years of broadcasting! Covers Masterpiece LIVE Special (tentative)”
(2025)
01/16 (Thu) 22:00-22:45
Rebroadcast: 01/20 (Monday) 23:50-24:35
MC: Lily Franky Moka Kamishiraishi
Talk guests: Tomotaka Imamichi, Kyoko, Kiminori Sera, Motohiro Hata (in alphabetical order)

NHK BS “The Covers New Year Legend Rock SP”
MC: Lily Franky Moka Kamishiraishi
Covers Guest: Masaaki Sakai to MAGNETS (Masaaki Sakai, Mickey Yoshino, Shishido Kafka)
Tribute guest: Tortoise Matsumoto, Shinshin Brothers

[Night 1]Masaaki Sakai and the Spiders
(2025)
01/05 (Sun) 22:50-23:19 *4K advance broadcast (BS Premium 4K)
01/09 (Thu) 21:30-21:59 *Broadcast schedule (NHK BS)


Masaaki Sakai to MAGNETS “Monkey Magic” (Godigo/1978)
Masaaki Sakai to MAGNETS with Tortoise Matsumoto/Mashin Brothers SP collaboration “Bang Bang Bang” (The Spiders/1967)

[Night 2]The Beatles & Godigo
(2025)
01/12 (Sun) 22:50-23:19 *4K advance broadcast: (BS Premium 4K)
01/16 (Thu) 21:30-21:59 *Broadcast schedule (NHK BS)


Masaaki Sakai to MAGNETS “Twist and Shout” (The Beatles/1963)
Masaaki Sakai to MAGNETS “Morning of Farewell” (Pedro & Capricious/1971)

“The Covers” program site
https://www.nhk.jp/p/thecovers/ts/KXRV2Q744Y/


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