Leslie Cheung and His Times (2)

Du Huidong, who is in charge of film promotion in Jiahe.

"This period is not smooth, and his debut in Taiwan is also related." One of the research interests of Zhu Yaowei, a professor at Hong Kong Baptist University, is popular lyrics. He told this magazine that Li Tai, they are called "Ernai Tai". "The first room is wireless, and the second room is beautiful." So Leslie Cheung turned a little red and went to wireless. At this time, Li Xiaotian also made the music part of Li’s TV station vivid by virtue of the "Asian Singing Competition", so the radio station dug him up and copied a "rookie singing competition" wirelessly. He said: "Now 95% of the popular singers in the music world are taking part in this competition." Li Xiaotian led the team to set up the Huaxing Music Department in Wireless, and naturally continued to be the record producer of Leslie Cheung, and launched The Wind Keep Blowing. At that time, Japanese songs were the most popular. In many cases, Japanese songs were adapted and brought to singers to sing. Chen Shufen, who was in Huaxing at that time, said that Leslie Cheung and she both liked Yamaguchi Momoe, and "The Wind Keep Blowing" was adapted from one of her songs "Last Song for You" as the title song of his first record when he joined Huaxing. Li Xiaotian said that he taught him to sing in a low voice, and the nasal sound sounded sexier, a bit like Elvis Presley. "Karaoke was popular at that time.Many of Tam’s songs in the same company are very high, so it is difficult for fans to sing along with them. On the contrary, Leslie Cheung’s songs are catchy. "

The record achieved good results, and I thought it could become one of the top ten jade solid gold in the following year. The organizer strongly invited Leslie Cheung as a guest that night. Leslie Cheung went away full of hope, but returned disappointed. Chen Shufen recalled that at the end of the award ceremony that night, a large group of people went to hold Tam’s performance because they booked a seat in Haicheng early in the morning. When the lights were dim, Leslie Cheung sat next to her and cried. The famous song "Monica" is also a Japanese song, which originated from Li Xiaotian and Chen Shufen watching the Tokyo Music Festival in Japan one year. They noticed that there was a singer Koji Kikkawa on the stage, and the typhoon was surging. Seeing him singing "Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Monica" at the top of his lungs made him have a flash of inspiration, and he thought this song was suitable for Leslie Cheung’s cover, which "would have a rebellious and unruly taste".

Li Xiaotian said, "But Leslie Cheung did get out.". He is definitely not a "casual play" mentality in the eyes of outsiders. When he recorded a record with Leslie Cheung, "as soon as he found out that there was something wrong with a place, he would broadcast it, and he would sing the whole song again. In fact, he could just repeat that sentence, but he insisted on singing the whole song again to keep it smooth. Because the place where the complement is repeated will be heard from the breathing. "

At that time, many actors were born in wireless training classes, and Huaxing Records Department also had its own reserve plan. Pan Guoling, a cultural critic, told this magazine that in order to stand out from it, the circle described it as "Muren Lane", just like in Shaolin Temple, if you want to go down the mountain, you must pass the test first. At first, Leslie Cheung signed the same agent with Tam and Danny Chan, and the other two became popular, but he was not. Especially with Danny Chan, when he just debuted, many people would compare them: Danny Chan is a noble son, and the feeling of first love grew up in a greenhouse; Leslie Cheung is rebellious, emotionally mature and has many experiences in society. Zhu Yaowei told this magazine for example that during that time, he and Danny Chan were both supporting actors. For example, in The Unemployed Student, Leslie Cheung was a bad student, which set off Danny Chan’s good. The director and screenwriter consciously create a strong contrast: Danny Chan is a white coat and black pants; Leslie Cheung works as a waiter in the bathroom because of her poor family environment. Although she is also wearing a white coat and black trousers, the two social classes feel completely different when wearing them. After arriving at "Monica", Leslie Cheung was in high spirits. Zhu Yaowei believes that these spirits of hard struggle are consistent with the spirit of Hong Kong, and Hong Kong people will have special feelings for such people who have experienced setbacks. Just like Leslie Cheung sang in the theme song "Silently Going Upstream" of "Drummer": "Happiness refuses to wave lightly, I will struggle hard."

idol

At the beginning of his popularity, Leslie Cheung has always been a rebellious and unruly image, which is more distinct in the comparison between his early stage and Danny Chan, and his later stage and Alan Tam. Lin Yihua believes that he is a youth idol for the "baby boomers" who grew up at the beginning of Hong Kong’s economic boom. But it is precisely because Leslie Cheung represents a "youth from scratch" for Hong Kong that he has to wait for the economic ability and rebellious ability of this generation of young people.

Lin Yihua told this reporter that the whole so-called "youth" market didn’t really have a fever in Hong Kong until the early or middle 1970s, and it was only around 1972 that jeans became the recognized identity mark of the younger generation. "In the 1970s, people thought that the kind that came out of wireless TV was a big star, such as Adam Cheng and Wang Mingquan. Tam and Wang Mingquan won the most awards at the first and second golden record awards ceremony. The youth of the previous generation represented by Samuel Hui was grassroots, mostly about life and survival. In the 1980s, the charm of the radio station at that time was in the eyes of our generation of young people ‘ New wave ’ In the creation of the period, wow, he is Tan Jiaming, she is Xu Anhua, and he is Tsui Hark & Hellep; … They used 16 centimeters to shoot TV movies, but the youth idol has not yet appeared. This period is also 10 years since Leslie Cheung changed from an ugly duckling to a swan, although there was an ulterior motive to go to a less bright TV station. When this generation grew up, Leslie Cheung began to become a swan, and with "Monica", it was a bit like ‘ Elvis Presley ’ The feeling of becoming the first independent youth totem. "