Aozora (song)

"Aozora"
Single by The Blue Hearts
from the album Train-Train[1]
A-side	"Aozora"
B-side	"Heisei no Blues"
Released	June 21, 1989 February 6, 2002 (rerelease)
Genre	Punk rock
Length	14m50s
Label	Meldac
Writer(s)	Masatoshi Mashima
Producer(s)	The Blue Hearts
The Blue Hearts singles chronology
"Love Letter" (1988) "Aozora" (1989) "Jōnetsu no Bara" (1990)

"Aozora" (青空, "Blue Sky") was the eighth single by the Japanese band The Blue Hearts. The song was recut from the group's third album Train-Train. This song was written in opposition to the continuing apartheid of the time. Mashima said that the actual reading for the tile is Aoi Sora. "Heisei no Blues" (平成のブルース), the B-side track, was not on the album Train-Train.

The song was covered by miwa in 2010, for use as the ending theme song of the animated film adaptation of Eto Mori's novel Colorful.^[2]

References

1. Train-Train. bluehearts.com. Accessed February 22, 2008.
2. Barks (2010-07-03). "miwa、尾崎豊とブルハのカバーを映画『カラフル』に提供" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2010-07-21.