Ritchie Blackmore celebrates the great Japanese Promoter Mr Udo

It is a sad day for the world of music with the passing of Mr. Udo, the legendary Japanese promoter, who passed away on 15th October 2023. Rainbow have played more shows than any other act at The Tokyo Budokan, and here we see the band backstage on their final show in 1984 when manager Bruce Payne brings Mr Udo backstage to see the band.
A statement from UDO Artists: It is with great sadness to announce that the Japanese Concert Promoter, Seijiro Udo a.k.a. Mr. Udo, passed away on Oct. 15 at the age of 92. He started his career in his early 20’s at Kyodo Kikaku and founded Udo Artists, Inc. in 1967. He was a pioneer in bringing Western music to Japan and had lived his life more than anything else to please music fans. He went on to bring hundreds of major international acts to Japan such as Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, KISS, Aerosmith, Santana, Jeff Beck, Bruce Springsteen, David Bowie, Billy Joel, Bon Jovi, George Harrison, The Who, Van Halen, TOTO, and Bryan Adams to name a few, and held over 10,000 concerts in Japan.
We would like to express our deepest gratitude to all of you who have attended our many concerts and will continue to offer more concerts that will remain in hearts of music fans in the future, following the will of the deceased.

[@blackwoodrichmore4531]

Ritchie Blackmore is the one behind the camera videoing this scene.

[@thevoid99]

domo arigoto udo-san. thank you for bringing rock n' roll to japan. hope you say hi to jon for us.

[@deepzepp4176]

R.I.P A great promoter of rock music.

[@MandyLee-qc1cp]

MR.UDO IS A LEGEND. REST EASY SIR....

[@user-fr7hh2wn7k]

Rest In Peace ! Mr. ODO

[@user-qd1xe7eb4l]

Thank you

[@mityaypolov6118]

Боже, как давно это было !

[@Mr01081960]

Grandissimo promoter mr.udo rip 🙏❤

[@LazyGigolo]

He died at 92. This as an age where most people are already dead, specially in UK

[@michaelschmidt3634]

sad to hear this. but where is ritchie? is he only in the title of the video???

[@gregsten3700]

ritchie is in cowboy hat at begining of video in white usually wore black but

[@BaronQ]

​@@gregsten3700Er, no, that's Roger Glover 😊 OP is right.

[@blackwoodrichmore4531]

Ritchie is holding the video camera...

[@therealjustincase]

You mean, Joe Lynn Turner and the band? Where’s Ritchie?

[@blackwoodrichmore4531]

He's holding the video camera...

[@mami2247]

ウドーって、ウドー音楽事務所？😊

[@user-ds9wn7qt1o]

そうですよ。❤❤❤😂😂😂

[@BatroAgencia]

Legend. RIP, Mr UDO.