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Janelle Borg

“I gave it away… I thought I didn’t need it any more”: Cult Japanese guitar hero Masayoshi Takanaka gave away his iconic surfboard guitar. Now he’s got it back for his first-ever world tour at 72 years old

Jazz fusion virtuoso Masayoshi Takanaka has had a long and wildly successful career in his home country, Japan, with his 1976 debut, Seychelles, cementing him as a “pioneer in Japan’s rock fusion scene.”

But Takanaka's career is not stuck in the ’70s. Instead, he's currently riding a new wave of international popularity at the age of 72.

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