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<p>In the previous article, <a href="https://friday.kodansha.co.jp/article/371460">&#8220;[The Last Bastion of Johnny&#8217;s Empire] The Unknown &#8220;Third Member&#8221; Who Continued to Support KinKi Kids</a>,&#8221; we discussed how the spirit of the late Mr. Kitagawa Johnny&#8217;s has been passed on to the KinKi Kids.</p>
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<h2>The Legend of &#8220;The Man Who Created The Beatles</h2>
<figure id="attachment_372093" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 2458px;" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-372093"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="55a94173"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2024/05/533a1324e8c0d4f22bbf4f6f6298a3d5.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-372093" class="wp-caption-text">The Beatles during their visit to Japan in 1966</figcaption></figure>
<p>I was interviewing a female idol. The manager who attended the interview was strangely handsome. I asked him about it, and he told me that he was from Johnny&#8217;s Junior.</p>
<p>We got to talking.</p>
<p>He told me something unexpected.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> He said, &#8220;Mr. Janney respected Brian Epstein a lot.</span></p>
<p>What?　I thought.</p>
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<p>Brian Epstein &#8211; yes, the Beatles&#8217; manager.</p>
<p>Janie Kitagawa, influenced by Brian Epstein, had read his autobiography and studied it, and spoke enthusiastically about his charms as a manager.</p>
<p>Brian Epstein has a detailed biography.</p>
<p>I will never forget the shock I felt when I read the thick 680-page book, &#8220;The Man Who Created The Beatles&#8221; (Shincho Bunko).</p>
<p>I will never forget the shock I felt when I read the 680-page book, &#8220;The Man Who Created The Beatles!</p>
<p>Brian was the son of a furniture dealer in Liverpool, England. He took over the family business and started selling records in his store.</p>
<p>One day, a customer asked him, &#8220;Do you have any Beatles records?&#8221; He asked, &#8220;Do you have any Beatles records? The Beatles?　He went to see them at a live music club (Cavern Club) on the outskirts of town. There, he was exposed to their performance and was so impressed that he offered to be their manager.</p>
<p>At that time, the Beatles were an indie band. They were a group of delinquents who wore regents and leather jackets, drank alcohol, and shouted.</p>
<p>Liverpool is a port city on the other side of England, far from London. From there, Brian flew to the capital city, visited several record companies, and made a furious sales pitch.</p>
<p>Finally, he made his major label debut. Finally, they became a global rock group that revolutionized 20th century music and culture.</p>
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<p>But what made Brian do what he did?</p>
<p>The biographical book mentioned above and various Beatles-related books reveal some unexpected facts.<br>
Brian Epstein was a homosexual. He was drafted and joined the Army, but was also fired from the Army because of it.</p>
<p>After seeing the Beatles live, to his surprise, Brian fell in love at first sight with John Lennon!</p>
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<h2>The Identity of the &#8220;Phantom Member&#8221;</h2>
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<p>Indeed, the hidden passion of love was the source of the power to manage a small-town delinquent group and transform it into a major band.</p>
<p>Brian had sexual desires for John. The two later shared a four-day trip to Spain. At that time, they were rumored to have had sexual relations.</p>
<p>John Lennon denies this, but there is a persistent theory that they had some degree of relationship. In recent years, Yoko Ono has confessed that John was bisexual and had sexual interest in men.</p>
<p>Janie Kitagawa respected Brian Epstein. This is important.</p>
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<p>Brian forced four bad bands in a port town to take off their leather jackets and wear suits and ties. He said it was to sell them to record companies, but was it?</p>
<p>A man who is said to have fallen in love with John Lennon and eventually sought (and ended up with?) a sexual relationship with him. It is also said that he was a man who was in love with John Lennon and eventually sought a sexual relationship with him. In other words, Brian was trying to dye the young boys to his &#8220;taste,&#8221; wasn&#8217;t he?</p>
<p>His management skills seem to be straight connected to the production skills of Janie Kitagawa.</p>
<p>If Brian had not discovered and managed them, surely the Beatles would not have broken through. They would have ended up as a bad band from the port city.</p>
<p>Instead, they became the greatest idol group of the 20th century, transforming the world. The secret, at its core, was actually the power of a man&#8217;s &#8220;love&#8221; for a man.</p>
<p>The same goes for Janie Kitagawa. Of course, sexual assault is absolutely unforgivable. Nevertheless, he may have built his great Johnny&#8217;s empire with the same power that made the Beatles international stars.</p>
<p>In August 1967, Brian Epstein died suddenly at the age of 32. The cause of death was an overdose of aspirin.</p>
<p>The four Beatles were shocked and subsequently fell apart. After falling out, they ended up breaking up three years later.</p>
<p>Now, let me inform you of Brian Epstein&#8217;s nickname.</p>
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<p>Yes, he is the &#8220;fifth Beatle.</p>
<p>I wrote that KinKi Kids was actually a three-member group. The &#8220;third KinKi Kids&#8221; is actually Janie Kitagawa. Just like the Beatles&#8217; manager whom he respected.</p>
<p>No, he was the &#8220;fifth Four Leaves,&#8221; the &#8220;fourth Shonen-tai,&#8221; the &#8220;eighth Hikaru Genji,&#8221; and the &#8220;sixth Arashi. He was another phantom member, invisible to our eyes.</p>
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<h2>What &#8220;Johnny&#8217;s&#8221; and &#8220;The Beatles&#8221; Have in Common</h2>
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<p>They were all reasonably attractive boys. But something was missing. They could never shine as idols on their own.</p>
<p>For boiling water at 100°C to dissipate as steam, it requires vaporization heat. The same would be true for a celebrity&#8217;s break. And so that heat of vaporization is the power of &#8220;love.</p>
<p>Three years after Brian Epstein died, the Beatles broke up.</p>
<p>Four years after the death of Janie Kitagawa, Johnny&#8217;s disappeared.</p>
<p>This is too suggestive.</p>
<p>Johnny&#8217;s collapsed because of the wild accusations of sexual assault made by Johnny Kitagawa. But that is not the only reason.</p>
<p>When Johnny&#8217;s died, the very foundation of the Johnny&#8217;s office was lost, was it not?</p>
<p>It seems as if Johnny&#8217;s was already destined for extinction.</p>
<p>SMAP, Shonen-tai, Tackey &amp; Tsubasa, and V6 broke up.</p>
<p>Two members of TOKIO have left the company and are leaving the company.</p>
<p>Arashi, which has been inactive, recently established its own company.</p>
<p>Thus, only KinKi Kids remained.</p>
<p>As a two-member group, they received the most &#8220;love&#8221; in terms of quantity (from the phantom members). Yes, they were the last group to inherit the &#8220;spirit&#8221; of Janie Kitagawa.</p>
<p>The KinKi Kids are now at a crossroads.</p>
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<p>In the next article, <a href="https://friday.kodansha.co.jp/article/371464">&#8220;[Chosen Children of God] The necessity for the two members of KinKi Kids to remain idols and their &#8220;extreme appearances&#8221;</a> &#8220;, we will discuss the overly suggestive drama works in which they used to appear.</p>
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