The Duan brothers of Baiyang Records and Zheng Donghan Rolling Stone Records are 100% supportive of Yang Ye's plan to improve his sound, because this fundamentally reduces the record company's operating costs.
If you can really make a singer famous before he or she debuts, as Yang Ye said, then the record will be a 100% profit.
There are only a few ways that record companies select singers.
One is that the record company holds a singing competition itself. If you win, package it and try to distribute a record. For example, Wang Fei made his debut by participating in Xinyibao's singing competition.
One is to find people who are already famous. Using his fame to release records can guarantee a certain amount of sales. For example, if you find a well-known actor to release an album, if he performs well and sings well, fans will pay for it.
One way is to rely on talent scouts to try their luck. For example, Xu Huaiyu was singing while hanging clothes on the balcony of her home. Someone from the record company heard her singing and took her to record a record.
These methods have relatively high risks, and they are often gambling on luck.
Maybe you fell in love with a person and thought he was very good, but he just didn’t have the audience, or he didn’t find the right way to sing, and his records couldn’t be sold, so he lost money.
Of course, there are also companies like Huaxing Records, which have their own TV stations and can hold larger-scale competitions, which have a much greater impact than those held by the record companies themselves.
Singers like Anita Mui and Lu Fang have gained popularity since their debut.
Zheng Donghan had envied Hua Xing before, but Yang Ye did not support ATV's singing competition. He only broadcast the "Amateur Singers Competition in the Eighteen Districts of Hong Kong" organized by Radio Television Hong Kong.
Because Yang Ye has received a lot of help from Zhang Minyi, he is willing to help her maintain the influence of the amateur singer competition.
And there are not many talents to be selected from the small pool of Hong Kong alone. Yang Ye is not very interested.
Now that we have satellite TV, we can jump directly out of Hong Kong and naturally be able to flex our muscles.
The Rolling Stones' Duan Zhongtan came to Hong Kong specially for a meeting.
At the meeting, it was established that Bai Yang would look for potential singers in Hong Kong and the Mainland, while Rolling Stone would look for potential singers in Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia.
In addition, Yang Ye also mentioned one thing, it is time to go to the mainland to open a record company.
Duan Zhongtan asked: "Can mainland policies now liberalize the opening of record companies?"
Yang Ye said: "Yes, they can, but distribution and production must be handed over to state-owned audio and video publishing companies. We can only make some hard money if we do it.
But this should be done sooner rather than later, because the policy will always be opened up step by step, and now is the time to start staking out the land. ”
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Duan Zhongtan was very interested and said: "That's not bad. Vice President Zhang Peiren of our Mandarin Business Department is a rock fan. After he heard nothing, he always wanted to contact the rock youth in the mainland, so I just sent him there."
The Rolling Stones are very pioneering. Soon they will send Zhang Peiren to Beijing to establish Magic Rock Records and single-handedly carry the banner of Chinese rock music.
Yang Ye said: "Then go, but the mainland's record business is now mainly concentrated in Guangzhou. Otherwise, let's divide the work. Rolling Stone will go to Beijing, Bai Yang will go to Guangzhou, and open a record company respectively."
Duan Zhongtan said: "The north and the south are echoing each other. This is a good idea!"
"What does the Eastern Han Dynasty think?"
"This is a good thing. Let Manager Chen go. He likes rock and roll very much!"
Yang Ye looked at Chen Jiantian, the deputy general manager of Baiyang Records: "Atian is interested?"
Chen Jiantian He said happily: "Yes!"
In the original time and space, Chen Jiantian was the general manager of Jinshi, the Hong Kong branch of Rolling Stone. Now Rolling Stone and Bai Yang have become a family. Jinshi no longer needs to exist, and Chen Jiantian has become Bai Yang's company. Vice President.
Chen Jiantian was the manager of Beyond and Wang Fei in the original time and space, and Jia Kui also wrote songs for Wang Fei.
In the winter of this year, six rock bands including "Tang Dynasty" and "Breath" held a "90s Modern Concert" in Beijing in the name of raising funds for the Asian Games.
"Black Panther" also wanted to participate, but Zang Tianshuo thought the songs they wrote were crap and wouldn't let them play.
That night, the audience roared and trampled more than 2,000 chairs.
Several people from the Black Panthers were sitting at the scene, looking at the roaring audience, and were so angry that they left after listening only half a minute.
Went to Xizhimen for a meal and started rehearsing like crazy.
At this time, Dou Wei had long hair and was so handsome that women were confused when he saw him.
Dou Wei's girlfriend Jiang Xin later wrote an autobiographical novel "The Days with Flying Hair". There is a passage in it describing the first time she met Dou Wei:
"A boy was wrapped in a black trench coat that was almost touching the floor, blowing over like the wind. I couldn't see his face clearly under the flashing lights, but I noticed that his long hair was flying with the rhythm. ... He dances very well and is very provocative. His hair, his windbreaker, and even his person give people a strong aura."
Wang Fei was confused when he saw it. At that time, Wang Fei was still not popular. He was not happy in Hong Kong and would return to the capital if he felt irritable.
We all play music, so it was easy to get to know each other.
But Dou Wei had a girlfriend at that time, Jiang Xin, who was also a singer.
Jiang Xin was still underage when she followed Dou Wei, and her parents did not agree with the two of them having a relationship.
Dou Wei promised Jiang Xin's parents: "We truly love each other and will get married when we are old enough."
Wang Fei is the girlfriend of Luan Shu, another member of the "Black Panther".
So, how did Dou Wei and Wang Fei abandon their respective partners and get together?
Now that I have written this, let me tell you the story of Dou Wei, Wang Fei, Jiang Xin and Luan Shu Plateau for everyone to enjoy.
Because Wang Fei in this time and space was sent to the United States by Yang Ye, she will embark on a path that is different from the original time and space.
I wonder if I will ever interact with the "Black Panthers". Their bloody stories...maybe won't happen.
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According to Jiang Xin's novel "The Day with Flying Hair" and Dou Wei's later woman Gao Yuan.
Dou Wei at least had three jobs at the same time. If he hadn't accidentally made Wang Fei pregnant, and if Feng Zi got married, he would have been able to keep going without falling over.
How awesome!
Dou Wei’s fans like to boast about how much influence Dou Wei had on Wang Fei’s music aesthetics and how much he helped Wang Fei in his career.
This is embarrassing. It definitely has some influence and help, but not that big.
Dou Wei helped Wang Fei write two songs in total.
"Child" is written for their daughter, with lyrics written by Wang Fei and music composed by Dou Wei.
A song called "The Oath" was written by Wang Fei and composed by Wang Fei and Dou Wei.
On the contrary, Wang Fei was of great help to Dou Wei's career and also helped Dou Wei establish his music style.
It can even be said that without Wang Fei, Dou Wei might not have been able to make a career.
The reason why Chinese rock music has been brilliant for five years lies in two women.
The first one is Ms. Song Huaigui, the person in charge of Maxim Restaurant and the "Godmother of Chinese Fashion".
At that time, the rock music group in Beijing were so poor that they had nowhere to go.
After getting in touch with them, Ms. Song found this group of people quite interesting and provided them with shelter.
Every night, after the Maxim Restaurant was sampled, Ms. Song would let people from Beijing come into the restaurant to perform.
Everyone lifted up the carpet, played drums and harps fiercely, and roared at the top of their lungs until dawn.
Maxim has become a holy place for circle rolling, and even Godfather Cui has to respectfully call Ms. Song "Madamsong".
The second one is Wang Fei.
At that time, rock music could only exist underground and could not be performed in public.
As the Asian Games approached, the rock and roll guys came up with a good idea.
They officially performed under the guise of a charity performance to raise funds for the Asian Games.
When applying for a performance, they even changed the rock music into modern music. This was the "90s Modern Concert".
However, because the damage was too great, the person who smashed the table and smashed the chairs was immediately stopped and the performance could not continue.
Despite this, the "Black Panther" who is not qualified to perform is also very envious.
They rehearsed like crazy and vowed to improve their level.
More than a year has passed, and I am still in a pool of stagnant water, doing whatever I need to do.
Wang Fei appeared.
Wang Fei brought the "Black Panther" to Shenzhen for a concert and introduced them to Chen Jiantian.
Chen Jiantian decided to sign the "Black Panther", so these poor guys got a rehearsal space, good instruments, a BB player each, and a salary of several thousand dollars overnight.
Then he started recording an album, which is the unavoidable masterpiece "Black Panther" in the history of Chinese rock music.
"Black Panther" was released in Hong Kong, and "Don'tBreakMyHeart" became popular in Hong Kong. Then they entered the mainland, and the mainland audience thought it was a Hong Kong band.
This album sold 1.5 million copies in the mainland, and Black Panther became a god in one battle.
Zhang Peiren, who was far away in Taiwan, was jealous. He went to the capital to set up a subsidiary of Rolling Stones, Magic Rock, and signed all the rock and roll guys.
Release their records and help them perform, Chinese rock music became popular.
In 1994, "Lonely People Are Shameful", "Dark Dreams", and "Garbage Dump" were three hits. The "Three Heroes of Magic Rock" brought the commercialization of rock and roll to a new level.
The media also began to relax. "Eastern Time and Space" played Zhang Chu's "Sister", and rock music officially stood on the stage.
The gangers also became rich because of this, and all of them made a lot of money.
So, if Wang Fei had not taken action, it would have triggered a series of subsequent reactions.
Maybe those poor rock n’ roll guys are still performing under the bridge.
But these grandsons don’t know how to cherish it.
After having money, he smokes, gambles, whores, and does all kinds of bad things.
In just five years, he went crazy, died, became an immortal, and was finished.
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Rock and roll came from the West.
At that time, the mainland was very closed off, and people who wanted to know about popular music outside had to do so through "tapping songs."
"Song tape" is a unique term in the 1980s. To put it bluntly, it means plagiarism and imitation.
During this period, the domestic pop music scene had few original works of its own.
Because I have never been exposed to it, I don’t know how to do it.
So I used copying methods to record the melodies and orchestration of European, American or Hong Kong and Taiwan songs, and let local singers re-interpret them.
This... is very difficult, because there is so little music they have access to, and they can only listen to popular music.
Some distinctive music is out of reach of pirates because they do not pirate it, and there is no place to buy it.
Creation is a process of learning, imitating, integrating, innovating, and developing your own style.
If you don’t even have the materials to study and work behind closed doors all day long, how can you create?
The Black Panther was the person with the most learning materials in the Beijing rock circle during this period.
Because Wang Fei, who was far away in Hong Kong, sent them various tapes box by box.
Wang Fei bought all the music albums available in the Hong Kong market, packaged them and sent them to Black Panther, which greatly broadened their horizons.
Later Wang Fei was signed by Luo Dayou and sent to the United States to study. He was exposed to more first-hand music and absorbed a lot of nutrients from it.
After returning to Hong Kong, Wang Fei released the album "Coming Home", which incorporated many Western music styles and formed his own drag singing style, which became an instant hit.
When Wang Fei was in the United States, he also sent box after box of various music albums he collected to Black Panther.
The Black Panthers were very grateful and wrote to Wang Fei together. Dou Wei's writing style was good and the letters he wrote were different. The two began to communicate privately without telling Luan Shu and Jiang Xin.
Jiang Xin narrated this story in "The Days My Long Hair Is Flying":
One day Jiang Xin was alone at home and received a package pick-up form from the postman. The delivery address was the United States. The recipient is Wang Fei.
When Dou Wei got home, he took the order to the post office to pick up the package. It was a box full of CDs, a beautiful thread hat, and a letter.
The letter wrote about being in a bad mood recently, and ended with, "Can you stop calling me Xiao Wang in the future?"
Obviously, at this time, Dou Wei and Wang Fei began to be ambiguous.
As for when the two got close, there is a widely circulated joke on the Internet.
One time Wang Fei returned to the capital for a gathering with the Black Panthers. Dou Wei went out to buy things, and Wang Fei followed him, and the two of them did not come back.
Dou Wei felt sorry for his brother, he cut off his long hair, quit the Black Panther, and never sang Black Panther songs again.
But...he and Jiang Xin did not break up.
Dou Wei, Jiang Xin, and Wang Fei maintained a three-person relationship.
"The Days with Flying Hair" tells the story:
One afternoon, Dou Wei's grandmother, sister and Jiang Xin were making dumplings. Dou Wei answered the phone and went out.
Not long after, Wang Fei returned home with a suitcase in his hand and Wang Fei behind him.
Three people ate at the same table and talked until late at night.
In Jiang Xin’s book, Dou Wei said this:
"I know you love me, and I love you too, but to be honest, I don't think there is any contradiction.
I can give you whatever you want from me, so I really don't understand Why should we make ourselves suffer?
I have never dared to say these words, but I have always kept them in my heart, because I am also asking myself, is it normal to think this way?
It’s not that I haven’t overturned myself and forced myself to make a choice, but after that I will always have uneasy conscience...”
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The three of them fell into silence, politely filling each other's glasses with water.
Wang Fei asked Jiang Xin: "Do you think he loves you?"
Jiang Xin said: "If you don't love, why are we together?"
Wang Fei said: "But that's what he told me too."
This relationship lasted a long time,
When Wang Fei returned to the capital, Dou Wei went to find Wang Fei.
Wang Fei returned to Hong Kong, and Dou Wei went to Jiang Xin.
At that time, Wang Fei had already become the queen of the music scene. One morning, he came out to empty the toilet in his pajamas and was photographed. The Hong Kong media hyped it up and ridiculed Wang Fei.
However, Wang Fei has no regrets, and even wrote a song to express his ambition. This song is very famous and beautiful, called "Unrepentant".
This song was also quoted in the hit TV series "Flowers" later in life.
"This time I face it persistently and indulge in willfulness. I don't care whether it is wrong or right. Even if I am deeply trapped, I will do whatever it takes. Even if I am obsessed, I will not regret it."
Arrived In 1996, Dou Wei accidentally got pregnant with Wang Fei.
Damn it, this is trouble. Dou Wei can only break up with Jiang Xin completely and marry Wang Fei Fengzi.
However, he got married reluctantly. On the wedding day, he hesitated and said to Wang Fei: "Actually, I am not a good man. You have to think clearly about whether you want to marry me!"
Wang Fei’s manager slapped the table on the spot and almost started a fight with Dou Wei.
The marriage was completed and a daughter was born, but it didn't last long before the couple broke up.
Although Dou Wei no longer has Jiang Xin, he still has a plateau.
Gao Yuan is a reporter. A long time ago, he went to interview the Black Panther and got involved with Dou Wei.
So, she is not the third party between Dou Wei and Wang Fei.
So, Dou Wei once dealt with three women at the same time, and he was still at ease.
Just asking you if you accept it?
Dou Wei Plateau continues his affair!
It was La Yin who took Wang Fei to catch the traitor.
In 1999, Wang Fei held a concert at the Tokyo Budokan.
Dou Wei happened to be in Tokyo on business and also appeared at the celebration banquet, but the two of them sat at separate tables without any communication.
The reporter immediately smelled the marriage change.
Wang Fei's team strongly denied it, but Dou Wei showed up at the event with Gao Yuan in hand, and generously admitted: "Her name is Gao Yuan, and she is my lover!"
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< br>Dou Wei also publicly stated that he suspected that Wang Fei's marriage to him was a conspiracy.
He blamed Wang Fei for attaching too much importance to his career and neglecting his family. He bought him a car and a house, which corroded his will, drained his creative talent, and ruined him musically!
Mist grass! (End of this chapter)