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Kōnosuke Sakazaki ( 坂崎 幸之助, Sakazaki Kōnosuke): Born ( ) Ap(age 67) in Sumida, Tokyo.Vocals, bass, chorus, pedal synthesizer, double bass, and acoustic guitar. Masaru Sakurai ( 桜井 賢, Sakurai Masaru): Born ( ) Janu(age 66) in Chichibu, Saitama.The group also takes inspiration from King Crimson, Yes, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, and Pink Floyd, as they use odd time signatures, while also taking the chorus harmonies of Simon & Garfunkel, the Eagles, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, and Queen. The Alfee claims American folk music as their primary inspiration, but they do also take from heavy metal, hard rock, progressive rock, and Japan's "new wave". In 2003, HMV's Japanese branch ranked them number 92 in their "Top 100 Japanese pops Artists" list. Around 1975, Miyake left the group, leaving the remaining group a trio. On August 25, 1974, they released their first single "Natsu Shigure". Masaru Sakurai, Konosuke Sakazaki, Toshihiko Takamizawa, and Yasuo Miyake met in 1973 while students at Meiji Gakuin University, and formed the group Alfie. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.You should also add the template to the talk page.A model attribution edit summary Content in this edit is translated from the existing Japanese Wikipedia article at ] see its history for attribution. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation.If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality.Consider adding a topic to this template: there are already 2,615 articles in the main category, and specifying |topic= will aid in categorization.Machine translation like DeepL or Google Translate is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.View a machine-translated version of the Japanese article.