The roots of APRYL FOOL was The Floral formed in 1966 as one of pop & rock outfits under Japanese "Group-Sounds" boom in late 1960s through the audition for the Japanese Branch of The Monkees Fan Club. The three talented Floralists - Hiroyoshi 'Hiro' YANAGIDA (keyboards), Tadashi KOSAKA (voices), and Eiji KIKUCHI (guitars) - had a serious intention to play with their originality and creativity, and this strong intention could let The Floral change their name into APRYL FOOL in 1969. They recruited Haruomi HOSONO (bass) and Takashi MATSUMOTO (drums) and got much renowned as an improvised psychedelic rock band in Japan. Sadly APRYL FOOL was very short-lived ... they were disbanded soon after recording their eponymous album because of many differences of opinion among the members raised up right from the start. Later Haruomi and Takashi formed YELLOW MAGIC ORCHESTRA through a Japanese blues rock band HAPPY END, and Hiro joined some transient (but terrific) projects (e.g. FOOD BRAIN, LOVE LIVE LIFE + ONE) and could make a great success as a solo artist.