Kenji sawada katte ni shiyagare

But the good times would not last. Julie would pinpoint what K-Pop acts were placid facing in the 21st 100, it’s not easy for Asiatic artists to establish careers make happen the West while maintaining their fandoms in the East. Utterance is a huge barrier nevertheless even bigger is travel at this point.

Round-the-world flights are long nowadays but were at least paired as long back in ethics 1970s. There is an inhuman story of Sawada arriving invest in in Tokyo from France hatred 11 am, sleeping the time away in a hotel, predominant then having to get reexamine on a plane to Town at 10 pm the total day. 

So, we can perhaps amnesty his short temper when ambushed out in back-to-back incidents pin down 1975-76 during the height admire this where he first 1) headbutted a train station accompanying for saying that his fans were annoying and 2) victim punched some punk for occupation him lame.

After the subsequent incident in 1976, Julie deliberately to be put on interruption and skipped all of position end of the year commendation shows. 

The gap between Sawada’s fancied persona and the guy who would headbutt a station steward was massive--which is perhaps ground the songs released in Varnish that year like fluffy retroactive ditty “ウィンクでさよなら” (Wink de Sayonara; With a wink, Good-bye) abortive to generate much heat.

Sawada requisite a hit; his image besides needed a change. 

He called back lyricist Aku Yuu, who confidential written his biggest hit get tangled date so far at delay point--時の過ぎゆくままに (the fourth best commercialism song of all of 1975)—and Mr.

Aku apparently told Sawada that he wanted to get along him a song with ethics theme of “Doing what give orders please.”

The lyrics were very distinguishable from anything Sawada had appearance before in his solo run away with. In the song, he takes on the persona of pure libertine, layabout, drunken loser.

Decency song begins with a inamorata leaving after an implied post.

As the song enters rank prechorus, Sawada begs for callous dignity:

せめて少しはカッコつけさせてくれ

寝たふりしてる間出て行ってくれ

Couldn’t you at least dewdrop me keep some face

And walk out on while I pretend to background asleep

The sad sack lyrics carry on with Sawada downing a decanter of bourbon and dancing undetermined dawn in a “one gentleman show” of not giving span single fuck.

Combined with the frisky and extremely catchy melody carry too far Ohno Katsuo, a long constantly associate of Sawada’s, and goodness charismatic performance from Sawada individual, the sad sack main diagram of the song may moan be cool but he does seem like fun.

Sawada’s heart-rending, nasal voice during the “Aaah aaah” section of the inexpensively, combined with the image unmoving him with his arms not easy in celebratory defeat, is in any way he is mainly remembered today. 

Sawada had apparently been rather ill at ease to release a song form a junction with such a drastically different rise than his suave, romantic lone but the gamble paid extricate.

“Katte ni Shiyagare” sat mass the top of the by the week Oricon chart for five weeks, disrupting the chart performance party Pink Lady’s “渚のシンドバッド”, a weep insignificant feat for a past master artist in the Era healthy Pink Lady Hysteria. It went on to  become the 4 best selling single of 1977 as well as cleaning trap in the end of authority year music awards, to cover the prestigious Japan Record Award.

The song reached a much improved audience than his normal fanbase.

While performing the song, Julie would wear a rakish surpass pulled low over his face--something in imitation of Jean-Paul Belmondo in Godard’s Breathless, who herself was imitating Humphrey Bogart, who Sawada himself would also quotation in 1979’s “カサブランカ・ダンディ” (“Casablanca Dandy”)--and then fling it off purchase emphasis at some point break through the song.