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Yutaka Ozaki was a true legend of Japanese music, a rebellious figure who revolutionized J-Pop/Rock, created a string of timeless
records and cemented his status by dying a gruesome, untimely death in a Tokyo street at age 26.
He was born in 1965 in Tokyo`s Setagaya-ku, and debuted in 1983 with the single 「15の夜」 (juu-go no yoru) when he was still
a High School Student. This track was the first single from “SEVENTEEN’S MAP” 「十七歳の地図」, an album unusual in that he wrote
and performed all the tracks, but a staggering achievement considering he really was just ...read more
Yutaka Ozaki was a true legend of Japanese music, a rebellious figure who revolutionized J-Pop/Rock, created a string of timeless
records and cemented his status by dying a gruesome, untimely death in a Tokyo street at age 26.
He was born in 1965 in Tokyo`s Setagaya-ku, and debuted in 1983 with the single 「15の夜」 (juu-go no yoru) when he was still
a High School Student. This track was the first single from “SEVENTEEN’S MAP” 「十七歳の地図」, an album unusual in that he wrote
and performed all the tracks, but a staggering achievement considering he really was just 17 at the time he wrote it. His youthful
experiences are at the heart of the album; most songs concern the stifling circumstances of teenage life, boredom, sexual
awakening and the confounding of expectations. There is a dark, perhaps even desperate, tone to the record that belies the
superficially MOR sheen of the production and it is hardly surprising that the record continues to strike a chord with today's
teenagers, as well as being held in high esteem by their parents, themselves children of the 80s and victims of the strange days of
the economic bubble.
Although his first record is his masterpiece, the five that followed are of a similarly high standard, especially 1985s 「回帰線」, which
contains 「卒業」, a song about graduation that captures something of the emptiness and dread of post-High School life in Japan. « hide |
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