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About S.P.O.R.T.S.

S.P.O.R.T.S. is the eleventh studio album by Japanese jazz fusion band T-Square, who was then known as The Square. It was released on March 5, 1986. This album is the first appearance of one of their most popular songs, "Takarajima", composed by Hirotaka Izumi, and is also the first studio appearance of first long-term drummer, Hiroyuki Noritake. Bassist Toyoyuki Tanaka later left the band after this album's tour, and would be replaced by Mitsuru Sutoh starting from the next album Truth. This is their first album to win a Japan Gold Disc Award.