Here is a great song way back from 1980, we loved that song as it had a catchy tune and excellent film clip. I was 11 back when that song came out, I did not know the real meaning of the song until much later in life – much later.

I was working in a dive centre in about 2004, we had a large Japanese clientele and this song was normally played between dives. It was one of the boat surface interval songs, our Japanese clients loved it, the catchy tune and they could all make out the words of “I think I am turning Japanese, I really think so” and were all happy.

As the dive instructor on the boat, I have my group of dive students and one of the women asked me, do you know the meaning of the song? I had to say I did not, she told me to carefully listen to the words and explained to me it was about masturbation. As she pointed out the lines as the song played, it totally dawned on me, she was absolutely right. So after 24 years, she set me straight, this quirky song had a hidden meaning and I was oblivious to it all this time.