Daisuke Inoue performs Ai Senshi

Tadao Inoue was once the vocalist/flute player/saxophonist of the rock band The Blue Comets and appeared with them on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1968 performing their big hit "Blue Chateau".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms1yoZDbFEc

Following the group's breakup in 1972, he wrote hit songs for everyone from enka singers to idols as well as commercial jingles. In 1981, he took the pen name Daisuke Inoue and wrote & sang the songs "Kaze Ni Hitori De", "Ai Senshi", "Meguriai", and "Beginning" for the Mobile Suit Gundam movies at the request of the director, his former Nihon Universary College of Art classmate Yoshiyuki Tomino. In 1999, he released the album "Reverbation in Gundam", featuring new versions of his Gundam material.

This April 20, 1999 performance on Kaishingeki TV Utaemon was probably his last appearance on TV. On May 30, 2000 at the age of 58, Inoue was discovered by his wife hung in the staircase of his home in Roppongi, Tokyo. He was said to have been suffering from an ocular disease and grew tired of being nursed by his wife, who was also prone to getting sick. A note was found that read, "I'm not getting better. Sorry." The following day was their 30th wedding anniversary, for which Inoue even had a cake prepared.
http://www.nikkansports.com/jinji/2000/seikyo000531.html

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[kzundiverus]

Is he the one who sang it first?

[NeoEra0]

Yep.

[OniGundamSeed]

nice the is the best song in gundam

[AngelofUltramar]

This man is practically responsible for my love of gundam I have to be honest, hearing his songs in the early ps2 games that i played...just win, no other word for it. Gackt did this song justice but it's still not the same as hearing the original.

Win, just win.

[TheRantingRocker]

Sad that he died too. :( Koh Ikeda who sang Tobe! Gundam and Eien ni Amuro died 10 years before of rectal cancer.

[spacemonkey502]

wow he such a great singer

[hollowsephiroth]

May this man find rest amidst the stars.

[CISHR]

great song, great artist sad end...

[Tai1291]

Great artist.

[pasokonhakai]

うたえモンまた見たいな〜

[rickyfan3956]

He had a beautiful voice and was a wonderful flute player! I was sad when I read your description of what happened to him!

[NovaHyou]

my mind was blown away by this one...he still could sing it pretty damn good....then I read your description and I felt so sad...the 30th anniversary concert will be incomplete without his two songs for the movie trilogy -_- Anyway, thank you so much