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8 February 1981 – Queen have touched down in Japan. The band will perform 5 shows in Tokyo @ Nippon Budokan A Short ‘Flash Gordon’ Japanese tour
Freddie Mercury at the airport with Peter Morgan (aka Morgan Winner)
Freddie, Brian, and John arrive at Narita Airport from London on flight JAL442 at 3:35 pm, and Roger arrives with girlfriend Dominique on flight JAL61 from Los Angeles at night.
The Pictures were taken by Koh Hasebe
(John goes on a club crawl the day he arrives, and ends up going to 8 different discos on just this very first night in Japan. He tells Music Life magazine: “I have another name aside from ‘John.’ They call me ‘Disco Deacy’)