Chapter 317 The opening of a new company
At the finale of "Under the Lion Rock", 30,000 people sang in unison inside and outside the venue, and the singing resounded over the Hong Kong River.
“Let go of the conflicts in each other’s hearts and pursue our ideals together.”
“People in the same boat swear to stick together, fearless and fearless.”
“We are on the same corner of the world. , we work hard to smooth out the ruggedness, and write that immortal famous saying! ”
This song has already become the city anthem of Hong Kong. The past ten years have been the decade of rapid development of Hong Kong.
Many people gain strength from this song and work hard to realize their own life value. , they also regard this song as their spiritual portrayal.
Today, the current situation in Hong Kong is turbulent and the future is unclear. Many people feel uneasy and confused, so they naturally sang this song again.
“Ten years ago, in the Hong Kong City Hall, we shed tears and sang this song "Under the Lion Rock" together."
"I remember that at that time, I quoted Su Dongpo's A poem: I wonder if Lingnan is good, but I say: This place of peace is my hometown. "
"In the past ten years, Hong Kong has developed rapidly. We have all worked together to build our hometown into a star-studded international city.
Today, I want to dedicate another song to Hong Kong and to all of us, This song is called... "Pearl of the Orient"! "
Looking back at the past, there have been many miserable and rainy days over the past hundred years.
The Pearl of the Orient has endured training, survived hardships and gone through many changes.
Calm and adaptable, there is sweetness in the bitterness, and the laughter and crying ring in my ears.
The Pearl of the Orient has won praise and envy, and has won a series of bleak and arduous challenges
Speechless and persistent new achievements, endless courage and endless fighting spirit will remain unchanged.
Working hard to create prosperity together will never tire us, and the contribution of Dragonborn can spread further and shine brightly.
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There are three songs named "Pearl of the Orient". The earliest one is the theme song of the 1981 TV series "The Road Ahead", sung by Jenny Jenny. It expresses a sense of confusion about the future of Hong Kong.
The well-known Mandarin version of "Pearl of the Orient" was composed by Luo Dayou himself and is generally regarded as a patriotic song.
But it’s not. It expresses outsiders’ feelings about the fate of Hong Kong. Of course, it also expresses their sincere expectations for Hong Kong’s future.
The Cantonese version of "Pearl of the Orient" that Yang Ye sings now is different. It is five years earlier than the Mandarin version sung by Luo Dayou himself.
It has the same song as the later Mandarin version, with lyrics written by Zheng Guojiang. Hong Kong people talk about Hong Kong affairs.
The lyrics focus on the connotations of "dragon descendant" and "fighting spirit". They are not so political and express more the "Hong Kong spirit" of hard work and tenacity.
After this song was released, it resonated with a large number of Hong Kong citizens at that time!
This Cantonese version of "Pearl of the Orient" was released in 1986. Although the song is good, it came out a little later.
Now, when people's thoughts are changing and the current situation is turbulent, it is even more suitable for the situation to be sung by Yang Ye.
To a certain extent, it plays a role in calming people's hearts.
The next day, major media in Hong Kong not only reported on the grand concert of Yang Ye’s Red Hall concert, but also published the lyrics of the song "Pearl of the Orient" and expressed their respective opinions on the song.
Although there are factions and different positions, there is nothing wrong with this song.
It didn’t talk about politics, it just talked about the hard-working spirit of Hong Kong people, so it was naturally praised!
Apart from singing, the most eye-catching thing about Yang Ye’s concert is the unique stage design.
Although limited by the conditions, he cannot be as cool as later generations, but he can bring out something casually, which is enough for the current audience to feast their eyes.
For example, when singing "Sea of Flowers" with Akina Nakamori, the rain of petals falling all over the sky was like a dream, and the audience was mesmerized!
The Hong Kong media highly praised this concert, and as a result, tickets for the concert were hard to come by.
This concert is priced in four levels, namely 180, 280, 380, and 480.
It has become so popular that it is full every day. The media calculated that Yang Ye’s concert will be watched by nearly 400,000 people. Excluding advertising and peripheral income, the box office alone will reach 100 million Hong Kong dollars.
The title of "Oriental Daily" is very eye-catching: "Yang Ye Red Hall opens a show, earning 100 million!"
Opening a show means holding a concert in Cantonese, "show" It is the transliteration of "show".
"Oriental Daily" also reported in detail: 100 million is only the official income. In fact, the tickets for Yang Ye's concert were sold at sky-high prices.
The value of the tickets in each category has increased several times in the hands of scalpers, and the 480 tickets have been sold for more than 10,000 Hong Kong dollars.
In addition, not only locals from Hong Kong come to watch the concert, but also fans from Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia, and even Europe and the United States.
These people come to Hong Kong to spend money.
"Oriental Daily" made a calculation for this: the economic benefits of Yang Ye's concert will exceed one billion Hong Kong dollars.
Those who speculate on tickets, open hotels, rent out businesses, do catering, and even sell condoms all have to thank Yang Ye for the overwhelming wealth he brings.
As soon as this report came out, the entire Hong Kong and Taiwan entertainment circles were shocked.
For a long time, movie stars in the Hong Kong and Taiwan entertainment circles have outnumbered singers, because movie stars make movies and sell box office, and their income is very considerable, while singers can only rely on selling records and participating in commercial performances.
You can’t make much money selling records. As for commercial acting, actors can still act.
Before the 1980s, the conditions for commercial concerts were immature. There were no decent venues in Hong Kong and Taiwan, and small venues with two to three thousand seats simply could not meet the demand.
The income of singers cannot be raised, and their status is naturally not as good as that of movie stars.
Now that we have the Hung Hom Stadium as a venue, as long as we can hold a few concerts here, won’t the income rise steadily?
Suddenly, the singers came to learn from Yang Ye.
After all, you can’t just hold a concert. With such a big venue and such awesome stage design, it’s not something ordinary people can handle.
Nowadays, in the entire Chinese world, Yang Ye and Deng Lijun are the only two people who have ever staged such a big event.
Of course, Yang Ye has been prepared for it. This is also the reason why he will hold the event for a month and invite 60 singers from the industry.
These sixty singers are all his clients!
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Yang Ye, Zheng Donghan and an old man who was nearly fifty years old stood together and introduced to Xu Guanjie and Alan Tam: "Sam, Alan. Let me introduce you to , this is Zhang Yiorong, Uncle Rong!”
Xu Guanjie and Alan Tam greeted Zhang Yiorong with a smile.
Zhang Yaorong smiled and said: "Actually, no introduction is needed. Sam and Alan both come to my nightclub to help. We are all friends!" Zhang Yaorong is from Shunde. He came to Hong Kong at the age of 13 and started his career in architecture. He opened a nightclub in Tsim Sha Tsui. Ocean Palace Hotel and Nightclub, where many Hong Kong singers have performed on stage.
Cheung Yao-wing was the first investor to organize a concert in the original time and space. In Hong Kong, he organized all the concerts of the famous singers who sang loudly. He had organized 1,500 concerts in his life. Each concert was spectacular, turning the Coliseum into the temple of concerts in Hong Kong, and he was known as the "Father of Concerts"!
If Yang Ye wants to do his acting business, he needs a collaborator, so the most suitable person is undoubtedly Leslie Cheung.
With Yang Ye’s power in the entertainment industry and the vast resources at his disposal, Zhang Rongrong was simply flattered to seek cooperation.
The two hit it off quickly and opened a "Celebrity Performing Arts Company" specializing in concerts!
Today I have an appointment with Xu Guanjie and Alan Tam to prepare for their concert.
In the established history, the first concert at the Hong Kong Coliseum was held by Xu Guanjie, followed by Lin Zixiang, Chen Baiqiang and Teresa Teng.
The number of performances was also gradually increased. At the beginning, everyone was not very confident. Xu Guanjie's "Governor Xu Guanjie Concert" only opened three times, and all three were full.
By the end of the year, Teresa Teng’s “15th Anniversary Concert Tour” had been added to six concerts, and six of them were sold out.
The subsequent singers became more energetic, you added me, and they kept setting new records. Until 1989, Leslie Cheung's "Farewell to the Music World Concert" held 33 consecutive shows, bringing a successful end to the golden age of the Hong Kong Philharmonic!
Now, the "Celebrity Performing Arts Company" jointly established by Yang Ye and Leslie Cheung will organize concerts for the singers in a planned manner.
Cheung Yaorong happily said to Xu Guanjie and Alan Tam: "Master Yang has held concerts in Japan, Europe and the United States, and he is friends with Michael Jackson. He told me many advanced concepts in the European and American music circles, and he has The concerts have very unique insights, which often make me enlightened. With the creativity provided by Mr. Yang, I am absolutely confident that our concert will be a great one!”
Xu Guanjie and Alan Tam naturally had nothing to say, Yang said. They saw with their own eyes how awesome Ye's concert was!
After several people discussed it, the concerts of Xu Guanjie and Alan Tam were immediately scheduled, scheduled for July and September, and they were tentatively scheduled to hold fifteen concerts each.
With Yang Yepai immediately igniting the concert market, there is no need to test the limits bit by bit like the original time and space.
As for the scheduled concerts of George Lam and Chen Baiqiang in history, they can only be scheduled until next year!
At the end of the year, it will be Teresa Teng’s farewell concert. After the concert, the microphone will be closed.
Of course, it is not that she will completely quit the music scene. After Deng Lijun discussed with Yang Ye, Yang Ye gave her a very special suggestion: from now on, she will not do business or make albums, but will only sing OSTs for film and television works. .
This is actually the route followed by Faye Wong in later generations. Faye Wong is known as "left for half of her life and only sang OST when she came back."
Faye Wong has not released any album since she released the album "Love" in 2003. In the following twenty years, she sang 21 theme songs or promotional songs for movies.
This led to the fact that as soon as Faye Wong released a new song, netizens asked: "What movie?"
For twenty years, Faye Wong has relied on these OSTs to stay popular.
But to be honest, after the millennium, with the rise of the Internet and the gradual collapse of the record industry, there is actually no problem if Faye Wong does not release records.
But the 1980s and 1990s were the golden age of the record industry, and Teresa Teng would suffer a lot if she didn't release records.
However, considering Deng Lijun's health, Yang Ye still gave such advice.
This will not have a great impact on her body, nor will it cause her to completely leave the music scene.
New songs come out every year, and the singing career can be considered sustainable.
As for not making a record, she will make a lot less money... She is already Yang Ye's wife, so that little money is nothing.
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Throughout May, Hong Kong people's attention was sucked away by the concert at the Hong Kong Coliseum. Coupled with the diversion of TV stations, the box office of the movies released this month was extremely poor.
However, May is originally an unpopular period, and the major film companies don't care much about it. They all focus on preparing to earn a ticket in the summer season.
On the contrary, in Taiwan, after the release of "First Blood", it grossed NT$36 million, and then "The Maurya" grossed NT$42 million, and then "Shanghai Noon" grossed another NT$42 million. Received NT$48 million.
Three consecutive hits in four, five, six, and three months made Taiwanese film producers a lot of money. No one was willing to give up this money tree. Yang Ye and others also lifted the ban, and "Kowloon Walled City" ” also plans to enter the summer season in Taiwan.
With the exception of Jet Li, "Sword Rain" still cannot be released in Taiwan. However, Yang Ye did not count on this and did not even send it for inspection.
There is nothing you can do about this kind of thing, let alone the 1980s, it would be very troublesome even in the 1990s.
The 1991 "Shanghai Gambler" could not be released in Taiwan because the heroine was Gong Li, so the producers were forced to find Taiwanese actress Fang Jiwei and make a special version.
Of course, because Li Lianjie's ability to attract money was too strong, he also took the initiative to join the Liberty Federation and was lifted early.
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On the last day of the concert, Yang Ye stood on the stage and sang the last song.
...Ten years ago, I didn’t know you, you didn’t belong to me.
We are still the same, accompanying a stranger and walking through the streets that are becoming familiar.
Ten years later, we are friends and can still say hello.
It's just that kind of tenderness, and there is no reason to hug anymore. Lovers will inevitably become friends in the end.
It wasn’t until I had been friends with you for many years that I understood my tears.
It’s not flowing for you, it’s flowing for others.
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In thirty concerts, only two new songs were sung.
A song "Pearl of the Orient" was sung on the first day, but a song "Ten Years" was sung on the last day.
In later generations, "Ten Years" and Chen Yixun are like twins. As long as Chen Yixun has a concert, "Ten Years" will almost certainly be performed.
As long as the melody of "Ten Years" plays slowly, the emotional defenses in the audience's hearts will collapse in an instant, and countless emotional stories will begin to flow gently with the music, leaving the audience with nothing to hide.
But Yang Ye doesn’t care about that much, just collect it and talk about it later!
For things like gathering wool, if you gather too much, you won’t feel any psychological pressure. As long as you need it, then gather it!
If I have to find one reason, it would be... Chen Yixun actually refused to sing the song "Ten Years".
He felt that the Cantonese version of "Today Next Year" was very good. If he sang the Mandarin version, it seemed like he was selling second-hand goods. In the end, the company forced him to sing it.
Since he doesn't want to sing, then don't sing.
Take it away!
Yang Ye performed "Ten Years" at the finale of the "Ten Years Concert".
Although it is a Mandarin version, many movies in this era are still being released in Mandarin, so it sounds like there is no barrier to the audience.
Furthermore, Yang Ye has been releasing Mandarin songs over the years, and fans are used to hearing him sing Mandarin songs, so they don’t find it strange.
(End of this chapter)