Respawn Entertainment: Days of Glory

Chapter 881 Single-handedly pushed the Koreans out of Asia
Although the previous smear campaign was still carried out, the North American information cocoon became less meaningful due to the defection of Sharma's supporters and the continuous positive reviews of the Rolling Stones' European concert.

However, this matter cannot be stopped, after all, the arrogant white lords will not easily award the prize to people of Asian descent, not even their little brother island nation.

Looking back at the history of the original Earth Grammys, before Bian Lang's journey, only Yangjin Lamu was a Chinese person who had actually won an award. Her 2011 album "Miho: Journey to the Mountain" won the "Best New Age Album" award, showcasing the characteristics of Z-tribe music.

Tan Dun and Yo-Yo Ma are of Chinese descent, and Wu Tong is a collaborator with Yo-Yo Ma.

On the one hand, it's a matter of their own strength, but discrimination and some exclusionary ideas are also prevalent.

Currently, the Rolling Stones and the Edgewave are not flawed in terms of strength, so the only thing the CAA can use now is the white men's usual arrogance and exclusivity.

Therefore, Kerr will play a crucial role in guiding public opinion in this new round.

The song Cole stole from Bianlang is already in production, a crucial part of the whole plan. As for Black people, whom they outwardly want to win over, they'll certainly offer plenty of incentives.

Moreover, the proportion of Black people in European and American societies is increasing. If we can use the issue of "racial discrimination" to successfully incite hatred towards the Rolling Stones and Bianlang among Black people, it would be a good approach.

The plan was also very crude; in a society that claims copyright is paramount, they were preparing to pull off a switcheroo.

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Now, fueled by his competitive spirit, Kleiber is privately plotting a major, legitimate rivalry with the Rolling Stones and Wave.

The musicians and instrumentalists he contacted were mostly excited upon hearing the news. Many expressed that their creative passion, which had been extinguished by the market, was now gradually reviving!

Even some of Europe's most famous bands, currently relying on their past successes, are being incited by various people to prepare to release their works, which they intend to polish for a few more years, and compete with the Rolling Stones.

One veteran metal band even directly challenged the Rolling Stones: "See you at Woodstock!"

Speaking of Woodstock Music Festival, the development history of Earth is almost the same as that of the original Earth.

In 1969, due to the surge of postwar sentiment and the lack of attention to the opinions of young people, the young hippies, guided by the ideals of "love and peace," completed an incredible and heartwarming journey in Woodstock!

"Only once did music save the world, and that was in Woodstock." This quote was included in the book "Gates of Eden: American Culture in the Sixties," a study of American culture in the 1960s.

In the summer of August 1969, young people from all over the United States flocked to a small town called Bessel for a music festival. The town's residents worried that the hordes of hippies, alcohol, tobacco, and revelry would be a disaster that would completely destroy their home.

Therefore, a week before the festival's opening, local residents signed a petition demanding the cancellation of the Woodstock Music Festival. They claimed that in order to protect their homes, they would form a human wall on the highway to prevent the hippies from arriving.

Ultimately, the music festival, originally planned for 10 attendees, attracted 50. Highway 17B, the route from New York City to the festival venue, experienced the worst traffic jam in New York State history.

However, no violence occurred during the entire music festival. Rock music allowed young people to enjoy three days of extremely natural and free life. People loved one another, and non-violence maintained love and peace.

This rock music festival label, which later became world-renowned and is known for being the least commercially driven, was initially organized by four inexperienced young men.

In 1968, Joel Rosenman and John Roberts placed a strange advertisement in The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times: "(We are) young people with unlimited capital who are looking for interesting, legal investment opportunities and business advice."

Joel Rosenman, a Yale graduate, was the son of a renowned orthodontist. John Roberts inherited the family pharmacy and toothpaste factory after graduating from an Ivy League university.

Two wealthy young men decided to make a sitcom and star in it themselves. They placed an ad to solicit new ideas for the comedy and received 5000 responses, one of which led to the music festival that followed.

Mike Long and Artie Caulfield are two young hippies who suggested building a new hippie recording studio in Woodstock, 150 kilometers north of New York City, to produce albums for local musicians.

There were top musicians there, like Bob Dylan and the Band, who had laid the foundation for music.

Making comedies is a hobby that can be pursued without regard to returns, while recording studios are a business investment. After weighing their options, the two elite graduates from prestigious universities decided to start a "Woodstock Venture Ltd." together and jointly organize an outdoor rock music festival.

The reason it was a music festival rather than a recording studio was that, according to statistics, the three-day Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 attracted a total of 2.5 to 9 people. Joel Rosenman and John Roberts believed that, at $6 per ticket, they could make a profit if they sold 2.5 tickets, and if they could sell 9 tickets, they would make a fortune.

It is clear that the Woodstock Music Festival is a commercial event driven by profit.

As Maurice Dickstein put it, “Rock and roll became an extremely lucrative and massive industry, almost exclusively serving ‘youth culture’—a new market based on the affluent American society of the post-1950s and comprised of young people aged 11 to 25.”

Therefore, the reason Woodstock is the least commercially driven yet still boasts a successful business model is its incredibly high visitor numbers. This is something that domestic tourist attractions like Cactus Park, with tickets costing over a thousand yuan, can never replicate.

Of course, this may also be one of the many reasons why Woodstock could never set foot on Chinese soil!

The festival was originally scheduled to be held in an old industrial park in Walker, but just weeks before the opening, local protests forced the park's owners to withdraw their commitment to the partnership, even after more than 10,000 tickets had been sold and more than two million dollars worth of equipment had been purchased.

Because of the hordes of hippies, alcohol, leaves, and revelry... the town's residents viewed the upcoming music festival as a disaster that would completely destroy their homes. The slogan "Peace and Music" also made town officials uneasy, fearing it would incite anti-war demonstrations.

Ultimately, Walker revoked the Woodstock Music Festival's license, citing that "the portable toilets set up at the festival did not comply with local regulations." Just when the four young men were at their wits' end, Elliott Tiber extended an olive branch to them.

With the help of Elliott Tiber, they reached a new deal with milkman Max Jasker for $75000 for three days. The news caused a frenzy everywhere, and Jasker's farm was about to turn into a huge sea of ​​joy.

Graphic artist Arnold Skolnik designed a poster for the music festival featuring a dove perched on the neck of a guitar, symbolizing "three days of peace and music."

But the music festival did not bring peace to the four young men. A week before the festival opened, local residents signed a petition demanding the cancellation of the Woodstock Music Festival. They even threatened to form a human wall on the highway to stop the hippies from arriving.

Ultimately, the music festival, originally planned for 100,000 attendees, attracted 500,000. A nearly 25-kilometer stretch of Highway 17B leading from New York to the festival site was completely jammed, with traffic delays lasting up to eight hours.

One reporter even stood among the immobilized vehicles and said, "Welcome to the world's largest parking lot."

When Bian Lang was looking at the number of people at this music festival, he estimated with his limited imagination that it was about five to six times the size of the Rolling Stones Music Festival.

This happened in the late 60s, which is nothing short of a miracle!
Ultimately, due to the overwhelming number of attendees, ticket checks were not possible, and the music festival was eventually made free.

Despite dozens of arrests, thousands of medical problems, and two deaths—one from a heroin overdose and the other from a teenager being run over—there were no reports of violence.

Shortly after the music festival began, New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller declared the region to be in chaos. Logistical support was inadequate to meet basic needs, roads were jammed, mud was caused by strong winds and torrential rain, singers were late, and the schedule was in disarray…

Surprisingly, in this "hippie city" that is equivalent to the total population of Boston, something even more energetic than leaves stirred up excitement among the crowd: a spirit of spontaneous sharing, giving, and caring for one another emerged.

Therefore, no violence occurred during the entire music festival. Rock music allowed young people to enjoy three days of extremely natural and free life. People loved each other, empathized with each other, and depended on each other. Love and peace maintained without violence proved to work here.

Later, the concert became famous because of the documentary "Woodstock," which not only won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 1971, but also helped Warner Bros., which was in financial crisis at the time, to recover.

For young people in the 1960s, the media at the time could not name them until this documentary was released, at which point they were defined as the "Woodstock Generation".

Without a doubt, Woodstock Music Festival is not only a landmark in American music history, but also a landmark in American history itself.

In the last month of the last summer of the 1960s, thousands of hopeful and optimistic young people came together to define their generation and the entire era they lived in.

Everyone remembers that Woodstock was born for music, even though it seems to be more of a broader artistic feast.

Historian Bart Feldman, commenting on the Woodstock Music Festival, said: "What people experience here is an event that absolutely only happens once in a lifetime. It is complex and cannot be replicated. As Dickens said, it was the best of times, it was the worst of times."

During the period when Woodstock was suspended, various rock music festivals, such as Glastonbury in the UK, Bonarco in the US, and Midi in China, basically followed the format of Woodstock, but their core spirit was quite different from Woodstock.

Former Rolling Stone columnist David Dalton once said of Woodstock in 1969: "It was all like a strange fantasy. People today would never go to a music festival with the fantasy of changing the world."

So the moment Bian Lang saw the name Woodstock, he started researching the host country for next year. After confirming it was South Korea, only one answer came to Bian Lang's mind: No way!

So when the organizers generously extended a formal invitation on their official website, smugly anticipating reaping the benefits of the popularity generated by Rolling Stone and Bian Lang, Bian Lang replied without hesitation: "If it were in South Korea, I wouldn't go!"

This is going to be really funny.

Bian Lang replied to the message before the plane to Rome took off. When they landed in Rome, Agnelli, who came to pick them up, said to Bian Lang, "Wave, I think you are the kind of man who can single-handedly remove South Korea from Asia!"

After embracing Agnelli, Bian Lang asked with a puzzled look, "Mr. Andrei, I don't think I have that ability. I just simply hate this country and its people!"

Although it was quite inexplicable, Bian Lang still remembered a sentence that a media person from his past life had said on behalf of Liu Xiang: "My achievements represent Asia, represent the yellow race, and I think that should not include island nations!"

"A single sentence you uttered before boarding the plane has caused Sun Minghao from South Korea and some people in the entertainment industry to start attacking you. Your reputation and that of Rolling Stone in South Korea may have already hit rock bottom."

Hearing this expected result, Bian Lang smiled nonchalantly and said, "So what? What does this have to do with what you were just saying?"

"Remember when I was planning to collaborate with you on Alfa Romeo? Just now, when our marketing manager was reminding me of the risks, I already had them remove South Korea from the list of Asian partners!"

"Hmm, what do you mean?" Now it was Bian Lang's turn to be surprised.

"Compared to the market of a few dozen Korean cars a year, we choose your friendship!"

Hearing this, Bian Lang laughed and added to Agnelli, "And the Chinese market, right?"

"Yes! I believe I'm not the only one who thinks this way. Although I don't know why you hate South Korea so much, I believe only a fool would choose the wrong country between China and South Korea!"

(End of this chapter)