Naples Art Gallery Facade Caves In as Pillars Crumble
Date: 19 August 1965
Special to The New York Times
Facade of Prince of Naples Gallery, Naples, Italy, built in 1883, collapses; interior not affected
Kōji Kikkawa (吉川 晃司, Kikkawa Kōji; born August 18, 1965) is a Japanese singer, musician and actor. His most recent album is 2022's Over the Nine.
Kōji was born in Hiroshima and his music career began on February 1, 1984, with "Monica" (later remade in Cantonese sung by Leslie Cheung) and he won eight music awards in the same year. After taking a short break in 1988, he came back as a lead singer in the band Complex with Tomoyasu Hotei (former guitarist of Boøwy) and "Be My Baby" was released. Complex remained as one of the most popular bands in Japan until 1990, when it was announced that Complex had disbanded.
After "Complex", Kōji released series of hit singles such as "Setsunasa O Korosenai", "Kiss Ni Utarete Nemuritai" and "Boy's Life". Kōji completed a "20th Anniversary Tour" at Budokan on February 1, 2005.
In 2006 he recorded "One World," the theme for the 2006 motion picture Kamen Rider Kabuto: God Speed Love. More recently, he had teamed up with popular Japanese DJ TWINS to release a single "Juicy Jungle". Also, DJ TWINS had released an album with remixes of several of Kōji's previous hits.
With this new sound-disco revisit, Kōji redefined himself like he does year after year. Throughout all his career, it could be considered that Kōji had outgrown from an idol to an artiste that explore the music boundary. He writes his own songs, produced and arranged his own albums and also played most of the instruments in it. He had just released a remix album of his old hits-titled-DISCO K2. In April 2007, a new single "BABY JANE" was released.
He portrayed Sokichi Narumi/Kamen Rider Skull in the Kamen Rider W franchise from 2009 to 2010, and sung "Nobody's Perfect," Skull's theme.
In 2011, Kōji and Tomoyasu Hotei reunited as Complex for two concerts at the Tokyo Dome to benefit victims of the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. The duo had not performed together as Complex for almost 21 years.
In 2024, 13 years later, Kikkawa and Hotei reunited again for another Complex benefit concert at the Tokyo Dome, this time to benefit the victims of the 2024 Noto earthquake.
In 2025, Kikkawa formed the unit Ooochie Koochie with Tamio Okuda.
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Date: 19 August 1965
Special to The New York Times
Facade of Prince of Naples Gallery, Naples, Italy, built in 1883, collapses; interior not affected
Date: 18 August 1965
By GLENN FOWLER
Glenn FOWLER
Mid-Island Estates buys 1,928-acre tract, Yaphank, LI, formerly owned by Webb & Knapp
Date: 19 August 1965
By LAWRENCE O'KANE
Lawrence O'KANE
Cranbury Housing Assocs gets $77,000 HHFA grant for low-income housing program
Date: 18 August 1965
3 whites arrested, San Diego, in car containing fire bombs and other weapons
Date: 19 August 1965
Belli upholds press duty to inform public about murder, lr to Sen subcom hearing on bill to curb data given to newsmen about Fed criminal cases
Date: 18 August 1965
Amer Waterways Operators repts barge traffic up 5.5%, Jan-June '65
Date: 18 August 1965
100 business, labor and educ leaders invited to White House dinner for discussion of natl problems with key officials
Date: 18 August 1965
WILLIAM BUNGE Assistant Professor of Geography, Wayne State University, Detroit
William Assistant
Prof Bunge lr on Aug 1(14:3) article