Found this song by Rie Nakahara（中原理恵）on her 5th album from July 1980, "Heart of Gold". "Revolution", as the title would suggest, begins with an AOR guitar and percussion that sound very anthemic before a determined drum march comes in as if the singer were going off to war. But the majority of the song straddles the line between AOR and City Pop.
Written by Kaoru Asaki（麻木かおる）and composed by Masahiro Ando（安藤まさひろ）, the first leader of fusion band The Square, I have one observation about "Revolution". At certain points, Nakahara's phrasings remind me of the vocals of Misato Watanabe（渡辺美里）, and her debut song, which wouldn't be released for another six years, was titled "My Revolution". Things that make you go hmmmm....😏
The overall atmosphere of "Revolution" is pretty different from that of "My Revolution" But, I do see the similarities you pointed out. This however is a however a really great song that would have sounded contemporary 10 or more years later in the early 1990s.
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