HIDE BOOKS and Special Publications 5

FAVORITES ( a photo album by Saori Tsuji ) 

The album was issued on July 20th 1993 in collaboration with FOOL'S MATE magazine

and the photo artist Saori Tsuji, famous for making very good quality pictures to various rock bands on and back stage.

The album it comes as complementary material for HIDE's solo 1^st Tour, HIDE OUR PSYCHOCOMMUNITY .

This is an official photo collection of HIDE also released in the same time with the 1994, VISUALALBUM.

Mother & Sons, Noriko Shoji and 10 people of our branch

Issued on May 1995 by the Bestsellers.Co

“Mother Of The Rock Artists”, is a collection of interviews with Noriko Shoji and 10 artists from showbiz. Among those chosen artists we find HIDE , TOSHI KUNG and TAIJI-san from X-Japan which was also listed as DTR.

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The interviews are done in a parental manner , we can also feel the maternal affection between HIDE and Noriko Shoji,

this opens your heart to an atmosphere that calmed down really like a home discussion between a parent and child. Such a lovely lecture to read :) !

GUITAR HEROES 1997 Vol.1

Issued on April 5th 1997 by Sony Magazines

It is a "GB 20TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL ISSUE" containing

Special Features of this guitarist players which had been active at that time.

In the preface, hide and Hisashi Imai (BUCK-TICK), talk about SUGIZO (LUNA SEA) in an article that has been re- published later on .

HIDE is also

 talking about his solo projects and touring in another, longer interview from the same issue of that publication.

X Japan = HIDE FOREVER =

was issued on June 20th 1998 by Shufutosei katsusha

This was released to press along with a local magazine as an emergency extra number of "weekly women".

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documenting the tragic event from 1998.5.2 to 5.8 1998. Reflecting upon HIDE's sudden disappearance, his fans fans felt as sinking into a deep state of sorrow. It contains in detail the X JAPAN conference and comments of the band's members at that time.

The funeral report has been a state funeral has been also published in detail.

Special Features and the stage photos of The Last Live are also published in here among other. A lot of HIDE's memories, the growing up in Yokosuka....town which HIDE was calling in joke! the edge of the earth” . Even the headmaster of Hollywood beauty salon professional school where HIDE was student talked in a very heart-touching way about the deceased superstar.

His student photos were passed through and published in the magazine, plus extra comments, etc. The Women's Magazine affairs chief declared with pride that the issue we're talking about it had become an unique type of magazine. ...it become more like a mini book. As perfect ending it is depicted HIDE's trajectory into this world from the birth of X JAPAN to stage the festival for the 1997.12.31. The article has been published along with the nostalgic photo over to page 15,

it had become the appropriate content to the permanent preservation version. Is not quite the type of book you'd read on daily bases, the pain brought along...reviving those days...when HIDE...had left us...is still heart breaking for many of us...HIDE's fans...