"Glory Days" is a song performed by the Hong Kong rock band beyond. Huang Jiaju composed the music and wrote the lyrics for the Cantonese version of the song, while the Mandarin version was written by Ho Kai-hung and Zhou Zhiping.
The Cantonese and Mandarin versions of the song were included in Beyond's Cantonese** "Destiny Party" released in September 1990 and Mandarin** "Glory Days" released in April 1991 respectively.
In 1990, Beyond went to Kenya and saw first-hand the suffering of African people due to war and famine. After returning to China, Huang Jiaju saw the story of African leader Mandela trapped in prison in the newspaper and resonated with his heart, believing that his hard work in Hong Kong was somewhat similar to Mandela's indomitable fighting spirit. I was inspired to create the song "Glorious Years".
Huang Jiaqiang also once told reporters that when Huang Jiaju wrote this song, he saw many people talking about Mandela's struggle for human rights, freedom and equality for his country and the South African people. Jiaju felt that Mandela represented not only black Africans, but also the whole world. Everyone needs freedom, equality, human rights. The song "Glory Days" not only condenses the ups and downs of Mandela's life, but also expresses that no matter how many ups and downs he goes through, everyone has their own glory years.
The lyrics of this song are inspirational, and the melody of the song is easy to popWhen listening to "Glorious Years", a kind of cry from a rebel youth to a torch of freedom makes people involuntarily sigh, it is a shock from the heart, so that people living in hardship seem to see a glimmer of hope, let people learn to be strong.
After Mandela's death, the song became even more precious. Beyond's ** is full of vitality and power. Their ** melody is very strong, it is very easy to attract fans, and what is even more rare is that their works focus on reality and are highly sensitive to culture, humanities, social environment and even politics. The profound ideological significance of some of their works is rare in the Hong Kong music scene.
For example, "Glory Days" calls for the elimination of racial barriers, "Amani" condemns the cruelty of war and looks forward to the prospect of peace, and "The Sea and the Sky" directly expresses the love of freedom, and they elevate the spirit of "joy and anger" of rock to the level of "peace and love". That's why rock exploded in the 90s.
The early 80s and early 90s should be regarded as the peak period of domestic rock, the early Cui Jian, Black Panther, Tang Dynasty band, the core idea of the works is mostly freedom, self, expressing their true feelings, or shouting for injustice, which is in line with the characteristics of the times and is therefore very popular. In the later period, there were more styles such as heavy metal and light rock. The performance style is mostly rebellious and even heart-rending shouts! There are many people who don't like it, rock and roll gradually declined in the late 90s, and the Hong Kong rock scene was the same after the death of Wong Ka Kui!
To this day, many people say that rock and roll is dead! But as a rock 'n' roll youth, I still have a rock heart, and the heart of rock and roll is still not dead.
Therefore, the glorious days of beyond are reproduced, not only recalling the rock fan of his youth, but also paying tribute to Beyond, leading everyone to recall the past youthful years