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The Real Musical Magic of Ryuichi Sakamoto

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Listening to the jazz-funk of Herbie Hancock’s Head Hunters band revolutionized his thinking about music

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Rock Gods in Japan: Who’s Appropriating Who?

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A famous number of theirs compares a girlfriend’s physical attributes to those of a high-performance sports car.

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The Return of Yukio Mishima

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“It’s not an accident that Don Quixote encounters strange things,” he mused. “It’s caused by his personality… I’m a Don Quixote.”

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R.I.P. Bowie: “Like some cat from Japan…”

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David Bowie and Yukio Mishima both staged their own deaths as pieces of performance art.

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Lucifer Rising in the Eurozone

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Crowley died a penniless heroin addict, but it could be argued that today’s world is more congruent with his thinking than that of Marx, Mill or any of the great religious leaders.