Buster sent one song "Sunday" to the UK Singles Chart,[1] and the band were popular especially in Japan,[2] Europe and Australia in the late 1970s.
At Christmastime in 1977, the band toured Japan, the Philippines, Australia and Germany, and performed live at the Budokan, the Sydney Opera House.
At Christmastime in 1977, the band toured Japan(Koriyama, Osaka, Kurashiki, Kyoto, Fukuoka, Hiroshima, Nagoya, Tokyo), the Philippines, Australia and Germany.
Buster played live on Japanese television and performed two sell-out concerts at the Budokan arena in one day.
They had achieved five hit singles and three best selling albums overseas and expectations were high, but Buster's teenage image was outdated, and RCA and the band parted the company in 1979.
The twosome also played in local pubs and clubs as the duo Rob and Alan Fennah and built up a substancial following in the Merseyside area.
Rob Fennah retained the name Alternative Radio, forming a new band line-up around the acoustic duo with brother Alan.
In 2021, the early albums(CD version) were released on major music distribution sites, and almost all songs are available by digital download, streaming.
In 2014, The British Embassy in Tokyo published a list of the most successful top 25 UK bands in Japan since the Beatles.