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“What is your favourite way to be betrayed by somebody?”
Carmen Maki
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A Japanese “Shawshank Redemption” was never on the cards.
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Both Carmen and Terayama were brought up by single mothers – who were themselves often absent – with little or no memory of their fathers.
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“You have a wife, don’t you?” “Yes, she’s as cold as ice. When she’s asleep, I often dream of setting her on fire.”
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She is still going strong. The flame still burns.
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Seazer / Caesar was a futenzoku (Japanese hippie) who dropped out of art-school and joined Terayama’s avant garde theatre troupe in 1969
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Terayama liked to tell people his own father was executed as a war criminal. The truth was more mundane.
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The “Queen of the Japanese Underground” stuck to her unique personal style – long black dress, dark glasses, cloud of cigarette smoke
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By then she had jettisoned her hippy chanteuse persona and joined Blues Creation, featuring Japan’s answer to Jeff Beck, Kazuo Takeda on guitar.