American group The Jackson Five, and British rock bands like Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Queen and Ten Years After all played the Festival Hall in the early 1970s during their first visit to Japan.
According to producer Jack Douglas, the audio from Cheap Trick at Budokan is actually from Osaka.
[2] On February 1, 1975, Festival Hall hosted a series of concerts by Miles Davis during the musician's tour of Japan.
The performances were captured by Columbia Records' Japanese division, then known as Sony, and released as two albums — Agharta (that day's afternoon concert) and Pangaea (the evening show).
The traditional features are preserved, letting sound shower down on the audience and the scale of a 30 m (98 ft) wide stage and the seating capacity of 2,700.