THE  TRUE  STORY  OF  HIDE

Issued on September 30th 1998 by Lou. Co. Ltd . Publication . The author of this book is a music producer also HIDE's friend from Junior High , it is another “mourning book” for which the author is using a pseudonym but he is revealing his real name afterwards by declaring

“ Although is the nature of my work the relationship between us allowed me to see HIDE making his own name , hating to stick to a certain stile, he created a new way,his own way....that was HIDE, my friend. “

It is petty the book is so rare to find and that we can only know HIDE's friend's side of the story, we cannot entrust in it completely as the issues disputed in the book are not verifiable facts but someone's memories , recordings which we can neither take for grant , nor dispute. If you have the chance to find it, is a story worth to be read.
Pink Cloudy Sky

Issued on December 25th 1999 by Bauhaus. Ltd , this is REM's and Masahiko Araki's book ( HIDE's ex Band-mates from SAVER TIGER )

hide-san, a band that had served as a leader before joining

X, is REM this and Masahiko Araki's book, which was playing the guitar along with the hide in SAVER TIGER. The story is told in a very cordial way by those who stood the most beside HIDE in his youth, when he start writing

Spent youth along with the hide, of unique author who had a passion for music, kindness and compassion for fellow of hide, the attitude to the serious music, it is told from the perspective of a friend. Originally this book,

which was to be published as an official book, but because the clumsiness of the publisher, or because of the arbitrarily change of the original cover design, while typographical errors and corrections

remain unmodified by the author or the corrector board it leads to a drastic measure of banishing this book from printing . HIDE's brother, and the Leader-board of HEADWAX opposed the publication of this book stating later on on that was “ published without permission” .

Therefore, although this is an out-of-print publication, some goods from SAVER TIGER era and X JAPAN private photos have also been published exclusively along with a number of the activities on which they have participated together.

The book is recommended tough as I said before it is very rare to be found on the market .