Magazines/'80s/1980

Rock Steady, 80-8
The Hirasawa interview published on this issue is one of the very few that went on to be republished, in 20 April 1983, as part of a "best of" book by Steady Publications that contains dozens of interviews conducted for their magazine between 1978 and 1982. The differences between each version of the article are minuscule: besides stylistic changes (how interviewer and interviewee are referred to, presentation of pull quotes going from larger-size bold text to larger-size bold text with full stops removed in inkbrush font within tanzaku), a brief profile of the band is included in the cover page, all but one of the photographs are removed (with a crop of a promotional band photo added at the end), the introduction is slightly rewritten and short footnotes are added to explain events of the time. For completion's sake, the footnote markings were added to the transcript above while the notes themselves, as well as the intro, are reproduced in the box below.