In hide's legendary life, his clothes are always changing. For example, the early metal leather style, classical palace style, gorgeous Goethe style, Bohemian style, military uniform style, and later punk style, camouflage style, futuristic style, simple and casual style. There are many indescribable clothing styles that have appeared on him. But the most striking thing is his hairstyle, from the early upright blonde hair, peacock head, red and yellow half-mountain, to the long red hair and wild explosive head, and then to the changeable pink short hair in the later period, which finally made red hair his signature image.
Hide is more famous for his rich musical talent. In addition to the obvious guitar skills, I also tried various styles in solo. For example, industrial rock, indie rock, fashion, skarn style and industrial noise. And finally created a new genre with a strong personal style: Cyber Rock, a rock full of computer sound effects. Because of his outstanding talent, he became a rock musician who made fans crazy in Japan in the 1990s. Hide devoted his life to the creation of rock music, which had a certain impact on the ecological and environmental changes in Japanese pop music.
Hide is a gentle, passionate and energetic rock musician, but also a superstar who is very close to the people and loves fans. At the end of 1995, he met her little sister Duan Liyang, who suffered from a rare disease. Since then, hide not only encouraged her by phone and letters, but also often went to the hospital to visit and encourage her parents. She also registered as a bone donor because she knew that bone marrow transplantation could help her, and strongly appealed to fans to join the donation, showing her brilliant love and influence. Hide is very gentle to friends around her, and it is also the best spiritual support for other members. At any time, he cares about everyone around him, takes care of everyone, and gives people around him a lot of courage and energy.
When he stands on the stage, he will show a high degree of performance desire and go all out attitude. He always plays like a naughty child, has a childlike innocence and always turns the concert into a happy carnival. He is innovative and changeable, and always has a steady stream of ideas. Hide's ideas always surpass those of his contemporaries, which seems to indicate the future fashion trend. His unique hairstyle and clothes can still shock people who have never seen him. And the music he left behind, if published as a new song today, no one will hear it more than ten years ago, but will feel refreshed. Because there is always a unique pride, surprise, joy and warmth in his music.
Hide became a superstar as the guitarist of the influential Vision Rock X JAPAN, and also formed the band zero with foreign friends. Besides composing music and playing guitar, hide is also the lead singer of an accomplished orchestra. Hide also formed the Hide band with Spread Beaver, and demonstrated creative management skills. He used the uppercase font HIDE in X JAPAN and lowercase font hide in personal solo to show the difference.
Hide died on May 2nd 1998. After drinking all night, his fiancee sent him back to his bedroom bed to rest. An hour later, she went to hide's room to check, but he was not in his room. Later, he was found in the bathroom of the apartment, wrapping the handle of the inner side door with a towel and hanging his head as if to sit on the ground ... When the ambulance arrived, he still had a pulse, but he was unconscious. At 8: 52 in the morning, he died in emergency Tokyo Hiroo Hospital. At the age of 33.
There are many theories about hide's death. Some people say that his death was an accident because he was drunk; And he didn't leave any last words before he killed himself.
The former member of X-japan who worked with Hide for many years wrote in the book "Say X" that "life and death-friends of the universe" are as follows. He explained that after the performance, band members often tie towels around their shoulders and necks to relieve muscle tension. Hide probably tied a towel like that (we can assume that he tripped over the door and failed to save himself in the end. Although many fans support the idea of Taidi, some people prefer to think that Hide's death was a premeditated event rather than an accident. Those fans think that his song "Pink Spider" is his last words in the form of music (this song is the last single and MTV released by hide before his death, and its main content is that a woman jumps from a tall building and finally dies).
Hide's funeral was held on1May 7, 998 at a Buddhist temple in Tsukiji Hongan Temple in Central Tokyo. The street was blocked, and the police had to dispatch boats, helicopters, 100 policemen and 170 security guards to the temple to control the uncontrollable crowd. A total of 26 people were injured for different reasons that day and were taken to hospital for treatment. There is still a small souvenir book of tourists' messages in that temple-you can find it on the left side of the entrance to the hall.
Hide's death and funeral were reported by CNN and other TV channels around the world, although he is only a household name in Japan. The rest of X-Japan members staged Forever Love at the funeral, and another captain, Yoshiki Hayashi, made a speech. Yoshiki Hayashi trembled so much when he spoke that he could hardly hold his own manuscript. The following is an excerpt:
"I still can't believe it. His beautiful face has fallen asleep. I tried to wake him up again and again, but he still fell asleep ... ……hide always gave me good advice. Of course, he is sometimes at a loss under various pressures-but he always encourages me anyway. We talk about X, life, fans ... Sometimes he looks like my brother, sometimes he looks like my brother ... I think all his fans and friends are confused now ... I can't express my feelings in words. "