Written in front: This article is a record of the ups and downs of Rolling Stone in the past 40 years, and this article is the second part.
See Part 1.
06.An ugly stone.
I have to say that in the ** era of Rolling Stone, it was mainly a group of female singers who opened up the situation. From Qi Yu, Pan Yueyun, Zhang Aijia, to Chen Shuhua, Lin Yilian, Xin Xiaoqi...Every female singer appears, the character shaping, and the image planning all explain the significance of the Rolling Stone's "One Arrow" logo.
When it comes to male singers, although they are not as colorful as female generals, they can play a lot. In 1988, on the eve of Rolling Stone's heyday, Qi Qin joined Rolling Stone and formed the famous "Rainbow Band". Later, "Anniversary" was launched for his relationship with Wang Zuxian, and the song "Missing is a Disease" has been widely sung so far.
As for the "Rainbow Band", it is a legendary existence in the Chinese music scene. Space is limited here, so I won't go into detail for the time being.
For mainland audiences, Qi Qin is of far-reaching significance. Before him, everyone had never heard such a male voice. Lu Gengxu listened to "The Outside World" and began to practice, Zhang Yadong took the train to Beijing overnight to watch his concert, and Li Jian's early singing voice was deeply influenced by him....In 1991, at the Beijing Workers' Sports Concert, the staff kicked off the wires, the audience was pitch black, and the audience sang in unison, making the paper airplanes folded into the program sheet fly all over the venue.
Qi Qin and the legendary "Rainbow Band".
That year, there were not only Qi Qin and Hong bands, but also a Rolling Stone male general, who became the first singer to come to the mainland to start a singing. At 1.67 meters, he ran on the stage, and the audience lit lighters to cheer up, and the 18,000 people in the audience went crazy.
This gentleman is Zhao Chuan, who is not amazing.
Before entering the Rolling Stones, Zhao Chuan's ** road was not smooth. When he was young, he played in a band, and when he touched his nose, the band disbanded. He went to the restaurant to be a resident singer, and people thought he was ugly. He originally had a low voice, but after enlisting in the army, he shouted slogans, and suddenly he would soar high. In 1986, he obeyed his father's order and joined the ** company, but finally couldn't let go of his ideals and joined the "Red Cross Band". Under the sweep of the high-pitched voice, the band won the championship of the "Hot ** Competition".
The following year, he and the band held a concert at their own expense. It lasted three hours, and thousands of people went crazy about it. The incident quickly caught the attention of Rolling Stone. After signing with Rolling Stone, he was as lucky as Zhao Chuan and met the famous studio under Rolling Stone, "Friendly Dog". It was "friendliness" who made "I'm Ugly, But I'm Gentle" for him.
Speaking of "friendly dogs", we have to temporarily turn our attention back to 1983. That year, two bands appeared on the stage. A "youth choir", a "red ant choir". The former has written a bunch of political songs, so it is difficult to release films. His lead singer and head of the troupe will go to Beijing with Zhang Peiren in the future to be the producer of "Our Fire" for "Tang Dynasty" and others, Jia Minshu.
Shen Guangyuan, the head of "Red Ant", is the manager of the production department of Rolling Stone. In 1986, the band disbanded, and he and lead singer Luo Hongwu formed the "Friendly Dog Studio". The first work is Zhao Chuan's "I'm Ugly". What's even more powerful is that the keyboard player of "Red Ant" back then was called Zhong Xingmin.
Many years later, he arranged music for "Nunchuck", "Qilixiang" and "Chrysanthemum Terrace", and became the queen arranger of Dong Chou.
Red Ant Choir".
The lyrics of "I'm Ugly" were picked up by Huang Yunling from the garbage heap. The lyricist is Taiwanese poetess Xia Yu, who wrote "Pain and Happiness" to Qi Qin. After writing the lyrics, I probably felt that it was not good to compose music, so I lost it. After Huang Yunling picked it up, she composed the music herself. "Friendliness" also wrote a poem "Distant Stars in the Sky", and two poems were selected by Zhao Chuanxuan. Zhao Chuan felt that it was boring to talk about appearance, but "friendliness" still used "I'm Ugly" as the main hit.
So much so that when Zhao Chuan recorded the song, he deliberately avoided the lyrics of "I'm ugly", and then completed it separately.
Over the years, Zhao Chuan has always been obsessed with this. When he was on a variety show, many hosts greeted his face, which made him very painful. Xia Yu learned of this and made a special trip to write a letter of apology. But I have to admit that in the planning of "I'm Ugly", Rolling Stone was extremely successful. Even on the cover, Zhao Chuan didn't show his face.
It was Li Zongsheng who had an idea, picked up an ugly stone in the park, and took it back to take pictures for publicity.
So until the film was released, the audience didn't know what Zhao Chuan looked like. But as soon as I heard his songs, coupled with his later image, the record sold out at once. Even the song title has become a buzzword.
I have to admire the "careful machine".
But it's easy to fire once, but it's so difficult to keep it hot. Fortunately, Li Zongsheng's talent exploded at that time, and after listening to Zhao Chuan's love story, he immediately wrote "I Finally Lost You", and pushed Zhao Chuan. Unexpectedly, after Zhao Chuan became popular, an opponent ran to his studio to set fire to it, and also disabled the staff, which made Zhao Chuan depressed for a while. After Lao Li heard about it, one day, he ran to Zhao Chuan with his guitar and played the tune two or three times.
This is the song "I Am a Little Bird".
Lao Li said to him, you flew too high to become the target of the hunter, so don't be discouraged. Sure enough, the song became popular all over the streets. "I'm Ugly", "Losing You" and "Little Bird" hit one shot at once, almost teleporting Zhao to the position of the first brother. In 1993, Zhao Chuan went to Beijing again and sang "Looking forward to the Olympic bid", just because he said "I'm so thirsty", 200 bottles of mineral water were smashed up together. You can imagine the high popularity.
But it was also in that year that his unparalleled popularity was ended by the real Rolling Stones.
07.Rolling Stone "Heavenly King Master".
In 1985, when Li Zongsheng entered Rolling Stone, Zhou Huajian had just finished recording the first ** "Last Waltz". Unfortunately, before the record was released, the company went out of business first. He had no choice but to study while continuing to sing in restaurants to earn money.
Brother Hua has been stubborn since he was a child, and he came into contact with ** before he completed self-discipline. Before the release of the film, his biggest achievement was to participate in TVB's "Amateur Singing Talent Competition" in 1978 and win the championship. During the competition, I also met a young man named Du Dewei, who went to Rolling Stone to develop and sing "Lover" in the future.
With only one true heart, love me silently....”」
In 1979, Zhou Huajian came from Hong Kong to study in the Department of Mathematics of National Taiwan University. At one point, I left my guitar behind and wanted to be a good student. After enduring it for a year, I couldn't help it, and in my sophomore year, I went to a folk song restaurant to perform, and I earned 200 Taiwan dollars a night for Yuqing's singing. Because he liked singing too much, he sang 20 songs in one night, and Zhou Huajian sang until his throat was inflamed and he went to the hospital to draw blood. In the meantime, the record company poached him to produce "Waltz". * didn't make it, Brother Hua had to continue to "sing", until one day, he met Li Zongsheng who came to play mahjong.
In 1986, Xiao Li had not yet become "Li Million", and after listening to his songs, he first invited Lao Duan to make a decision. At that time, Li Zongsheng was so busy that he didn't have time to pay attention to him. Lao Duan felt that Brother Hua was okay, so he recruited him into Rolling Stone and became Wang Xinlian's assistant. Wang Xinlian also came out of the "Golden Rhyme Award", and "Echo" was made by her. I had a while with Li Zongsheng. Zhou Huajian helped her buy coffee and deliver documents every day. The salary is not enough for the rent.
Lao Duan couldn't imagine what a dazzling miracle this humble kid would create for the Rolling Stones.
The turning point happened in "Song of the Orbits". After Zhou wrote this song, the company took it to the office to broadcast it. One day, Sister Qi Yu came, and after listening to it, she thought it was good, so she recommended him to meet the composer Chen Yang. Chen Yang made a planning song, so he handed it over to him to sing. Hua Jian was originally only to subsidize his family, but unexpectedly, it didn't take long for his planning songs to be played on the streets and alleys of Taiwan. After Lao Duan paid attention to it, he simply asked him to collect the song and come out with ** "The Direction of the Heart".
The title song is written by Chen Yang, the arrangement is arranged by Huang Yunling, Li Zongsheng is the producer, and even the eldest sister Qi Yu serves as the chorus. This ** has laid the tone of Zhou Huajian's "sunshine".
In the late 80s and early 90s, the war between Rolling Stone and "UFO" became more and more intense. There are many female generals who can fight with Rolling Stone, but there are really not many male generals. In order to snipe Wang Jie, Rolling Stone even made a meat trick and asked producer Chen Sheng to fight on stage, but the sales were pressed and rubbed on the ground by Wang Jie. Wu Chuchu operates "flying saucers" and is better at commercial packaging, plus the superstar production team of "Five Chen and Er Li", Rolling Stone also trembles when he sees it.
Zhou Huajian's hit, "Let Me Be Happy and Let Me Worry".
Unexpectedly, just when Rolling Stone was distressed, Brother Hua grew rapidly and launched a "Let Me Be Happy and Let Me Worry", the song of the same name swept Taiwan, with annual sales exceeding 2 million. What I didn't expect was that in 1992, the "Four Heavenly Kings" were born, Hong Kong star-making was rampant, Cantonese songs were unstoppable, and the stage couldn't hold it. As a result, in 1993, Zhou Huajian released "Flower Heart", which sold more than 4 million copies, successfully blocking the Germans.
Brother Hua went to Hong Kong to do a show, and Hong Kong's ** directly gave him a nickname: Tianwang Master.
After that, it was Fei Yuqing's turn to imitate him on stage.
When "Flower Heart" was released, Zhou Huajian became the undisputed brother of Rolling Stone. Because of his bright voice, sunny, healthy, and affinity, unlike the gang in Hong Kong, who are high-minded and idol-like, he is also known as the "Commoner King". In fact, many of his songs are planned by Rolling Stone, such as "Friends", which was specially composed for graduation moments, and in those years, Zhou Huajian's singing voice spread all over Taiwan. Before and after, as of 2003, Zhou Huajian sold more than 35 million copies in Rolling Stone.
The only one who can catch up with this number is probably another Zhou Tianwang after 2000.
08.Surpass Zhou Tianwang.
At Rolling Stone, Li Zongsheng is undoubtedly the top producer. In terms of lyrics, from "When I Wake Up from a Dream" and "Understanding" to "Mortal Song", "Love Like a Tide", "Let Me Rejoice and Let Me Worry", almost never misses. But even if he is as ruthless as Brother Li, it is impossible to send the Rolling Stone to the throne in the 90s by himself.
Especially after Lin Yilian and Xin Xiaoqi, Brother Li's urban independent female routine has been played to the top.
Now it's the bug's turn.
At first, the presence of the worm was not so strong. At the end of the 80s, the two most widely sung songs in the mainland were Zhong Zhentao's "As Long as You Live Better Than Me", and Apan's "Am I Your Most Beloved Person", which has since established the lingering style of small insect love songs. In 1988, he and Chen Sheng also wrote a song "Do You Still Love Me Tomorrow" for Chen Shuhua. The two of them rode motorcycles and drank small wines, chatting and chatting to get the song out.
Worm production, "Am I Your Most Beloved Person".
After taking over Chen Shuhua, Xiao Li was too strong and covered up the light of the insect for a long time. In the early 90s, he was best known for his famous song "Intimate Lover" written to Anita Mui. At that time, I made Chinese ** for Sister Mei, and every day at 10 o'clock, Mei stopped recording and had to fight with her boyfriend. The little insect saw the appearance of the little woman when Anita Mui hit **, and wrote casually:
The wind is still blowing tonight, and I think of you so gently....”
Since then, we have had one more lyric song at our wedding.
Unlike Lao Li, a veteran folk song movement, Xiao Worm has always been at the forefront of the times in terms of music style and strives to explore.
As early as the mid-90s, he played R&B with Du Dewei, and also played with Li Lifen.
In 1994, Li Lifen, who left Rolling Stone to do DJ in her early years and failed twice in a row to make a record, met a bug in the show. Xiao Worm felt that it was a pity that Li's beautiful voice was not known, so he tailored ** "Just Like This" for him. There is a song "Love Jiangshan and Love Beauty More".
As the ending song of the 94 Taiwan version of "Heaven and Dragon Slayer", this "earthy" style that was criticized back then deeply affected a generation of audiences. Li Lifen's magnetic singing voice full of male voices, coupled with the sentence "Life is short for a few autumns, don't get drunk and don't stop", swept all major song stations and KTVs in the mainland overnight.
After the song became popular, when Li Lifen was eating, a friend called ** from the mainland and asked her to sing "Love Jiangshan". After Sister Li finished singing, a group of people in the KTV went crazy directly. Presumably this song also left a deep impression on Section Chief Jia, otherwise the graduation work "Xiao Wu" would not use it to create an atmosphere.
Before Sister Li did **, she lost all her savings. It wasn't until Xiao Worm wrote the two songs "Love Jiangshan" and "Laughing Triumphantly" that she saved her precarious career. At this point, Ren Xianqi, who was packaged and sold by Xinge Records to Rolling Stones, also has to thank Xiao Worm. Eventually, he did.
Forgive this scum picture quality, I tried my best
When he was studying in the Department of Physical Education of the university, Ren Xianqi, a fanatic, was still working in a musical instrument store, and was fortunate to attend some concerts and was responsible for passing microphones to Chen Sheng and Zhao. After gradually becoming a popular figure in the campus music scene, in his senior year, he was recommended by his teacher to the record company. The teacher also said that he wanted to cover him, but he didn't expect that after signing the contract, the company fired the teacher first. Since then, Ren Xianqi has released three ** in a row. When he returned from the army, he learned that he had been sold to Rolling Stone, along with his desk and chair. Since then, I have been doing chores and running errands.
At the end of each year, Rolling Stone ends some hopeless contracts. But each time, the worm kept him. It's a pity that in the first two years, Xiao Worm was responsible for the development of Du Dewei, and he also had to make the movie soundtrack for "Ruan Lingyu", so he didn't have time to take care of Ren Xianqi. In the third year, the assistant asked Brother Worm if he wanted to stay. Only then did Xiao Worm remember that there was another Ren Xianqi, took him abroad, and let him sing "Depend" in the recording studio for three days.
That is, when he lived abroad temporarily, the worm went to Las Vegas to gamble cards, and after winning a lot of money, he felt that the girl who dealt the cards might be in trouble, so he stopped and went back to continue gambling, losing a lot of money. Driving back on the road, the worm blamed himself and wrote with a pen: You are always too soft-hearted!
It is estimated that Xiao Worm himself did not expect that the work that had a flash of inspiration after gambling money would sell 26 million copies in Asia. At the end of 96, Faye Wong went to Tao Jingying to do a show, and Tao Zi asked what song was the most popular in the mainland. Faye Wong said, what else, "The Heart is Too Soft", it's being put anywhere. The following year, "Too Soft Heart" swept like a hurricane, occupying the streets and alleys of the motherland, making the future Daolang and Uncle Bird sigh to themselves. When teacher Zhao Lirong brought this song to the stage, the chocolate and ice cream named "The Heart is Too Soft" swept across the country.
The popularity of "Too Soft Heart" was included in the top ten things of the year together with "Hong Kong's return". After Li Zongsheng's women's experience was gradually finished and Zhou Huajian's sunny charm was exhausted, the four heavenly kings in Hong Kong were about to leave, and Rolling Stone was born with Ren Xianqi, showing that it was still strong.
At that time, the Rolling Stones: a wave has not subsided, and another wave has invaded
In 1998, with the joint efforts of producers such as Xiao Worm, Chen Sheng, and Jia Minshu, Ren Xianqi launched "Love Like the Pacific".
This ** has become the last brilliant footnote at the end of the century in the history of Rolling Stone Records and even Taiwanese pop**. The local sales reached 1.03 million copies, and it was also the last physical record in Taiwan to break one million so far**.
The song "Sad Pacific" echoes history with Chen Shuhua's "When I Wake Up from a Dream" in 1989.
What else can I say? Rolling Stones!
09.Wine and milk tea.
Xiao Qi is a man with affection and righteousness. Later, the worm was calculated and folded tens of millions, and when it was the most difficult, he took one million and sent it to the door, without mentioning the word "pay back". In front of all the **, Ren Xianqi always said that he had today, and it was all given by Brother Xiaoworm:
Without him, there would be no Ren Xianqi. ”
At Rolling Stone, there are many more examples of this. A word from the producer may make the younger generation stand out. When newcomers enter the Rolling Stones, they have to do chores first. Zhou Huajian wants to do chores, Ren Xianqi wants to do chores, and there are very few people like Zhang Xinzhe who can sing with Pan Yueyun in a year and a half. Liu Ruoying, the heroine of the most well-known teacher-student relationship, played the piano for Chen Sheng for three years, and once did not dare to go out because she couldn't afford the rent.
Chen Sheng also worked as an assistant in his early years, doing chores. However, the object of his miscellaneous work was very powerful: Liu Jiachang, who was very popular in Taiwan back then, and wrote "The Past Can Only Be Recalled".
Before doing chores for Master Liu, Chen Sheng worked hard to enter the record industry. He didn't go to school much, he worked as an elevator editor when he was young, rushed ** in a planning company, fooled around in a gay bar, and was often fired by his boss. In order to enter the record company, he took the exam three times, but he was unsuccessful. For the last time, I was afraid of being recognized and made fun of, so I changed my real name "Chen Zhisheng" to Chen Sheng, and finally got my wish.
The company he entered was the "Comprehensive One" where Qi Qin was in his early years. When recording ** "Wolf", Mr. Chen, who had an unruly personality, also had a fight with Qi Qin.
In his spare time, Chen Sheng also got a bunch of works, hoping that the boss would release the film. The owner was very nice and told him to get out of the way. Zongyi had business dealings with Liu Jiachang, and Chen Sheng was sent over to help, and he was often said. I don't know when I will be able to get through, Xu Chongxian, the recording engineer of Zongyi, is the one who said above that he recorded Li Zongsheng's ** work "Life", and gave Chen Sheng a sum of money to make the work. In 1988, Xu recommended Chen to Rolling Stone, and Brother Sheng successfully released his masterpiece, "Crowded Paradise".
The person in charge of "Crowded Paradise", Zhang Peiren, and Li Zongsheng on the left
At that time, Chen Sheng's ** did not cater to the mainstream, and even "anti-popular", and was completely "freewheeling". When Rolling Stone got the work, he hesitated and almost said no. In the end, Zhang Peiren, who had just entered the Rolling Stones, left it behind.
This copywriter who knows the goods wrote his first promotional slogan in Rolling Stone for Chen Sheng:
If you think I'm a little weird, it's because I'm too real. ”
In the 22 years of Rolling Stone, Chen Sheng is also one of the best producers, calling himself "Second Brother of Rolling Stone". However, his ** is unique, attaches great importance to emotional charm and temperament, and only attracts people who are destined. There are not many popular street songs. Even the amazing song "One Night in Beijing" was written to the cover in the future. For public music fans, in addition to Ren Xianqi's "Little Snow", Chen Sheng's biggest achievement is probably "Crazy for Love" customized for Liu Ruoying.
In 1990, Liu Ruoying, who returned to Taiwan from abroad, attended the party. Back then, she was so fat that she dared to wear an orange fluorescent swimsuit and come and go in the pool. On the same day, Chen Sheng and his wife were also invited by her friend. Chen learned that she was studying **, so he asked if he would like to go to Rolling Stone as an assistant. Liu Ruoying, who was in love, heard that she couldn't have a boyfriend within five years after joining the record company, so she asked Brother Sheng if she could have a boyfriend, and Chen Sheng only replied to her:
It's my business. ”
Since then, Liu Ruoying and Takeshi Kaneshiro have been miscellaneous for Chen Sheng. The two moved the piano, ran errands, and cleaned the toilet. often works overtime until two o'clock in the morning, and it is three years to stay up. It wasn't until Zhang Aijia filmed "Girl Xiaoyu" that the situation changed. The apprentice won the "Asia-Pacific Actress", and Chen Sheng also went out in person. Although Brother Sheng is uninhibited, he is extremely sincere to **. As soon as the milk tea started to record the song, he advised:
You have to put yourself under the ** and surrender to it. ”
A song "Crazy for Love", Liu Ruoying recorded it for three years. Often halfway through the recording, Chen Sheng's face darkened, and he turned his head and left. Leaving Liu Ruoying alone in the recording studio, crying bitterly.
Rene Liu's "Beauty and Sorrow".
The Rolling Stones have their own style. Li Zongsheng is known for being strict, and the insects must be very clean, while Chen Sheng is a slightly neurotic kind. He makes ** and often borrows wine to ferment. Many of the arrangements are both love-hate for him. I often get drunk and bring people in, don't mention work, and tell each other stories for an afternoon. After the story was told, he left, leaving the arranger alone to ponder. Once, before the song was finished, she called Huang Yunling over, and Huang Yunling was so angry that she quarreled with him on the spot
Neurotic, don't I have to go home and cook! ”
As for the master-apprentice scandal between him and milk tea, Liu Ruoying has clarified on countless occasions. Milk tea and Chen Sheng's wife are very familiar. The connection between her and Chen Sheng is closer to what Liu's father said:
What I didn't do for her as a father, Chen Sheng did. ”
To be continued, welcome to pay attention to this number, I will continue to salvage the past of the Rolling Stones for you, and see you next time