Routine archiving means that it has not been released to the outside world.

Miyuki Nakajima discussed with the staff, "If it's convenient, can you let me see the video of the music festival?"

"It's not that difficult..."

The staff member said "wait a moment" to her, got up and left the table, and went to make a phone call. Another staff member made tea and brought it over.

Miyuki Nakajima thanked her cheerfully and put her hand on the tea cup.

It has been nearly fifteen years since her debut and she is a musician who only focuses on music. Miyuki Nakajima’s manager hardly follows her. When she has recording or rehearsal work, she just calls in advance and leaves it to the other party to make arrangements.

I came here today and I was alone.

Two years ago, Miyuki Nakajima came to Polygon to confirm the performance video of her tour "Song Calendar". At that time, she was alone.

From 1984 to 1987, Miyuki Nakajima was in a period of transformation and exploration in music. She collaborated with well-known rock musicians. The works released during this period were full of rock flavor, changing her previous style of mainly folk songs.

The "Song Calendar" tour can be regarded as the culmination of her transformation period. However, there was something wrong with the video of this concert. Even after restoration, it was still not satisfactory.

With Miyuki Nakajima's perfectionism, she would not allow the defective video to be released first.

At that time, it was the end of NAON's YAON. Boli Kain was responsible for the archived video of the concert. After confirming the situation of "Song Calendar", Miyuki Nakajima was invited by the staff and also watched the performance video of the music festival.

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Two years have passed, and in the end, the video of "Song Calendar" with a defective video has not been released. It is a pity that a hearty and proud performance cannot be made public because of technical problems in the video.

But after regretting it, I was soon relieved by Miyuki Nakajima.

Perhaps, after several years of attempts, this culmination of performances is the singer’s only burning experience on the stage, and the audience’s only one experience off the stage. It is the singer’s only once-in-a-lifetime performance, and a once-in-a-lifetime experience with the destined person.

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"Song Calendar" was not released as a video tape, which made Miyuki Nakajima value concerts even more, and the communication and interaction with the audience at the scene.

Rather than appearing on TV and facing cameras, she wants to face the audience she is destined to meet through live performances.

Two years later, the staff member who originally invited Miyuki Nakajima, who was devoted to experimenting with rock genres, to watch the NAON YAON performance video out of good intentions is no longer working here.

However, the performance video of the music festival that I watched at that time is still in Miyuki Nakajima’s memory.

In particular, there was an underground band's performance that was even more unforgettable for her. In other words, what was even more unforgettable was the keyboard player in the band who was wearing a suit and leather shoes and seemed incompatible with the stage and the band's flashy Taiwanese style.

He obviously doesn't look like a rock singer compared to anyone else.

However, when he started to perform, Miyuki Nakajima felt that he was already full of rock music just standing there.

After that, I never saw this energetic young man again, and I don’t know if he continued to engage in music-related work.

Last year's New Year's Eve, Miyuki Nakajima accompanied her mother to watch the Red and White Song Concert. At the party, a band called DREAMSCOMETRUE appeared.

The name of the band, as well as the female lead singer's somewhat funny and unrestrained style and superb singing skills, are exactly the same as the underground band in my memory. However, the position of the keyboard player is not that powerful young man in a suit but a powerful young man in a suit.

It was replaced by a man wearing a giraffe hood.

In such a band that is funny and unrestrained on the stage, there is a giraffe man. Not only does it not seem out of place, but it adds a touch of fantasy. Together with the female lead singer who likes to play nonsense, their aesthetically mysterious costumes have become

Reasonable.

Despite this, when Miyuki Nakajima was watching the performance, she still felt a little regretful that she could not see the keyboard player who seemed out of place.

What is that young man doing now? Is he still engaged in music?

Such questions were swirling in Miyuki Nakajima's mind at that time, although there was no answer. Until yesterday, Miyuki Nakajima watched a documentary program about THEBLUEHEARTS on TV.

The staff came back after making the call and asked her to go to the screening room. "Preparations are already being made over there."

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Sure enough, I remembered correctly.

The female lead singer in the picture was singing heartily, but Miyuki Nakajima's eyes were focused on the keyboard player in a suit.

After the staff was ready, they followed her instructions and left temporarily. After more than ten years of debut, she has participated in the production of countless works and can operate various equipment skillfully. With Miyuki Nakajima speaking like this, the staff felt relieved.

Leave her alone.

She was alone, looking for what she wanted to see in the music festival video.

Last night, in THEBLUEHEARTS' documentary program, the name "Shinichi Iwahashi" appeared throughout it. When introducing this producer who participated in the whole process and helped the band, an official photo of him appeared on the TV.

Wearing a suit, he looks young and tough, and his eyebrows look familiar.

The Iwabashi producer took over the troubled THEBLUEHEARTS under pressure, worked hard for the band, released underground singles, and finally helped contact Joan Jett to take the band abroad. During the show, THEBLUEHEARTS's uncompromising attitude was certainly valuable.

.However, the character displayed by this Iwabashi producer is even more awe-inspiring.

Especially from Miyuki Nakajima's point of view, she admires him endlessly, both as herself and as a musician.

She stared at the keyboard player in a suit and tie in the picture.

Watching it again two years later, the feeling that it gave her at that time is still the same. Watching this young man's lively performance, she felt the power in him that was enough to break through the constraints of the suit.

Professional attire is a symbol of entering society and a shackles for social people. However, shackles cannot restrain a strong soul.

The image of this hard-working keyboard player and the image of the producer in a suit seen on TV yesterday overlapped subtly and fit perfectly.

Will this young man leave the band just to concentrate on being behind the scenes?

After confirming the facts that she wanted to confirm and reliving her feelings when she saw the performance for the first time, Miyuki Nakajima thanked the staff and left Pori Kain.

She stood on the side of the road, waiting for a taxi, but she still recalled the image of Shinichi Iwahashi in her mind. At this time, she suddenly thought of something.

Inspiration slowly accumulates in my mind.

A taxi stopped in front of her. Nakajima Miyuki reported her address, and the taxi took her home first.

After returning home, she plunged into her home studio and searched in the "music library" where her unpublished songs were stored. She scanned the folders on the bookshelf with her fingers and stopped when she saw one of them.

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"Rock and Roll Under a Suit". There is such a short sentence written on the spine of the folder.

Miyuki Nakajima whips it out.

Two years ago, after watching a performance at the music festival, Miyuki Nakajima was inspired by Shinichi Iwahashi's performance and wrote the song "Rock Under the Suit".

However, after the song was written, she was still not satisfied with the lyrics. She originally planned to put this song on the album that would end her "crazy transition period", but after revising the lyrics several times, she finally dropped the song.

It was also temporarily sealed by her.

Until this time, after watching the documentary program, the protagonist of "Suit Rock" finally received new inspiration.

Miyuki Nakajima wrote hard and wrote down the lyrics that came to her mind, sentence by sentence.

"Boiling anger, boiling desire, hold it in your arms, roll up your sleeves and hold it in your arms."

"Even if you put a tie around your neck, you can tie up your rough self. Even if you put your feet into leather shoes, you can tie up your wandering self."

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"The rock and roll under the suit is not for anyone to see, but for yourself."

Miyuki Nakajima wrote the last sentence and picked up the lyrics paper. The writing on the paper was half and half. Half of it had faded, and the other half was shining with new ink.

The faded half reminded her of the young man who was carefree on the stage, even though professional attire could not restrain him. The shining other half reminded her of the young man who was willing to help the weak under pressure, but even professional attire could not restrain him.

He is a young man who bows his head and compromises.

It is not surprising that a young man who can perform like that on the stage will show such courage. On the other hand, it is the same. It is because he has such energy in his heart that he can have such an unforgettable performance on the stage.

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This Iwahashi Shinichi reminds Nakajima Miyuki of a warrior, a fighter...

From him, we can see some kind of heroic spirit that is nostalgic.

She read the lyrics in full, dried the handwriting, put it in the folder, and walked out of the house with it.

There was no manager who called the recording studio to make an appointment in advance. When Nakajima Miyuki suddenly appeared in the recording studio, the staff reacted a little. However, it was not a surprise.

It is not impossible for a musician, a creature that relies on state and inspiration, to appear in the recording studio at any time and in what appearance. After the staff finished reacting, they began to prepare for Miyuki Nakajima's recording.

"What are you going to sing today?"

Miyuki Nakajima handed over the folder, "Please take a look at this."

The sound engineer took over the song "Rock Under the Suit".

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"Mother!"

As soon as the call was connected, Akina Nakamori spoke cheerfully and greeted Chieko.

"Akisai-chan!"

Chieko followed suit, listened to the voice, and was in good spirits.

After returning home in the evening, Nakamori Akina listened to the message on the phone, and there was one from her mother, Chieko. She looked at the time, figured that Chieko was still asleep, and called back.

"Iwahashi-kun——"

Chieko greeted her daughter for a few words and suddenly mentioned Iwahashi Shinichi's name.
To be continued...