Hong Kong Entertainment: The King of Kung Fu

Chapter 317 New Company Opening

When it came to 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."

“Those who are in the same boat swear to stick together and have no fear.”

"We are at the same end of the world, hand in hand to smooth out the rugged terrain. We all worked hard to 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 value in life. They also regard this song as a spiritual portrayal of themselves.

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 the song "Under the Lion Rock" together."

"I remember that at that time, I quoted a poem by Su Dongpo: I wonder if Lingnan should be good, but I said: This place of peace of mind is my hometown."

“Hong Kong has developed rapidly in the past ten years, and 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 the ears.

The Pearl of the Orient has won over Zanxian and a series of bleak and difficult challenges.
Without words, we will continue to create new achievements, and our endless courage and endless fighting spirit will remain unchanged.

We will never tire of hard work to create prosperity together, and the contribution of Dragonborn can spread further and shine brightly.

……

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, expressing her 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, and of course also expresses their sincere expectations for Hong Kong’s future.

The Cantonese version of "Pearl of the Orient" that Yang Ye is singing 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, but talked about the hard-working spirit of Hong Kong people, so it was naturally praised!
In addition to 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 flower petals scattered all over the sky, which was like a dream and made the audience intoxicated!

The Hong Kong media highly praised this concert, and as a result, tickets for the concert were hard to get.

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 headline of "Oriental Daily" is very eye-catching: "Yang Ye Red House opens show, earning 100 million!"

Kaisao means holding a concert in Cantonese, and "Sao" 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 tickets in each category has increased several times in the hands of scalpers, and tickets worth 480 have been sold for more than Hong Kong dollars.

In addition, it is not only Hong Kong locals who 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.

Movie stars in Hong Kong and Taiwan's entertainment industry have always outnumbered singers, because movie stars make movies and sell box office, making huge profits, while singers can only rely on selling records and participating in commercial performances.

You can't make much money selling records at all. As for commercial performances, actors can still perform.

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 Teresa Teng 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!

……

Yang Ye, Zheng Donghan stood together with an old man who was nearly fifty years old, and introduced to Xu Guanjie and Alan Tam: "Sam, Alan. Let me introduce to you, this is Zhang Yiorong, Uncle Rong!"

Xu Guanjie and Alan Tam greeted Leslie Cheung 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.

Leslie Cheung was the first investor in the original world to organize a concert. In Hong Kong, he organized the concerts of the big-name singers with loud shouts. He has organized 1500 concerts in his life, and each time he made it a success. The Coliseum has become the temple of Hong Kong concerts and is 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 Zhang Yiorong.

With Yang Ye's power in the entertainment industry and the massive resources at his disposal, Zhang Rongrong was simply flattered and couldn't get enough of him when he took the initiative 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 shows was also gradually increased. At the beginning, everyone had little confidence. Sam Hui's "Governor Sam Hui Concert" only held three shows, but all three were sold out.

By the end of the year, Teresa Teng's "15th Anniversary Concert Tour" had been expanded 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, Yang Ye and Leslie Cheung's "Celebrity Performing Arts Company" has been established, and concerts will be organized for the singers in a planned manner.

Zhang Yaorong happily said to Xu Guanjie and Alan Tam: "Mr. 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 a very unique approach to concerts." The insights often give me enlightenment, and with the creativity provided by Mr. Yang, I am absolutely confident that we can make your concert a great one!"

Naturally, Xu Guanjie and Alan Tam had nothing to say. They saw with their own eyes how awesome Yang Ye's concert was!

After a few people discussed it, Xu Guanjie and Alan Tam's concerts 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 concerts originally planned by George Lam and Chen Baiqiang, they can only be scheduled until next year!
At the end of the year, it will be Teresa Teng’s farewell concert, and after the concert, the microphone will be closed.

Of course, she did not 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 theme songs or promotional songs for movies.

This led to netizens asking when Faye Wong released a new song: "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 would make a lot less money...she is Yang Ye's wife, so that little money is nothing.

……

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, and focus on preparing to earn votes in the summer season.

On the contrary, in Taiwan, after the release of "First Blood", it grossed NT$3600 million, then "Peacock" grossed NT$4200 million, and then "Shanghai Noon" grossed NT$4800 million.

In four, five, six and three months, three consecutive hits have made Taiwanese film producers a lot of money. No one is willing to give up this money tree. Yang Ye and others have also lifted the ban, and "Kowloon Walled City" also plans to enter Taiwan. Summer time.

Except for Jet Li, "Sword Rain" still can't be released in Taiwan, but Yang Ye didn't count on it and didn't 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.

In 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 and he took the initiative to join the Liberty Federation, he was lifted early.

……

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 increasingly familiar streets.

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.

……

In thirty concerts, only two new songs were sung.

The song "Pearl of the Orient" was sung on the first day, but the song "Ten Years" was sung on the last day.

In later generations, "Ten Years" and Chen Yixun are like twins. "Ten Years" will almost certainly be performed at Chen Yixun's concert.

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!
When it comes to gathering wool, you won't feel any psychological pressure if you gather too much. As long as you need it, just gather it!
If I had to find one reason, it would be... Chen Yixun actually refused to sing the song "Ten Years".

He felt that the Cantonese version of "Next Year Today" was very good, and singing the Mandarin version seemed like 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 will be no obstacles for the audience.

Moreover, 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)