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In 1984, when Enron in the movie "The Girl in Red" set off a trend of wearing red dresses, Cui Jian and a few other friends named their band "Plywood," playing Western pop music in small restaurants and hotels in Beijing, the first band of its kind in Chinese mainland. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

That same year, Cui Jian released his first album, The Return of the Prodigal Son, a sweet Chinese pop ballad. This album first showed Cui Jian's musical style, and at this time, Cui Jian had already begun to create his own rock music.

At the same time, Li Lingyu, a 23-year-old Shanghai girl, officially changed her career to the Oriental Song and Dance Troupe and became a singer and dancer.

At the CCTV Spring Festival Gala that year, CCTV invited overseas singers to perform in the mainland for the first time, and Xi Xiulan's "Alishan Girl" and Zhang Mingmin's "My Chinese Heart" became smash hits because of this Spring Festival Gala.

"My Chinese Heart" was once called "a song that every Chinese sings except for the national anthem". And songs such as "My Motherland and Me", "The Moon of the Fifteenth", and "Back to My Mother's Home" were also widely popular in this year.

In August 1984, Zhang Xing, a young worker from Shanghai Qunyi Radio Factory, won the first place in guitar playing and singing, and later in the year published his solo album "There is More than One Road to Success", which sold 3.5 million boxes. The songs "Late" and "Tell Me" in the album have been sung to this day.

In 1984, Luo Dayou released his third solo album "Home". As soon as the "Home" album came out, it immediately caused an uproar among fans. The extremely strong sense of social responsibility contained in the first two works has caused people to dispute the "warmth" in Luo Dayou's new album.

On December 31 of this year, Luo Dayou held a farewell concert of "The Last Night to Warm Each Other with You" at the China Stadium in Taiwan, announcing his temporary farewell to Taiwan's pop music scene.

This year, in 1984, the newcomer in the music scene released his first album "Three Hundred and Sixty-Five Miles", and another newcomer, Xue Yue, also released his first album "Rock Stage". During the production of the album, Xue Yue was hospitalized for a month due to a lung cyst. When he was discharged from the hospital, he was re-hospitalized with liver disease. When "Rock Stage" was published, Xue Yuesi was completely exhausted, had no physical strength to sing on TV, was so angry that he drank every day to drown his sorrows, and began to consider whether he should directly quit singing and go to work in the factory.

Taiwan's folk song movement has gradually come to the end of its development, but many folk singers are still trying to maintain the mantle of folk songs with their own dedication. "This Love Can Be Waited" successfully created another peak of Cai Qin's career since "Out of the Stopper". Qi Yu switched to Taiwan's Rolling Stone after two years of silence, and teamed up with Li Taixiang's "Taixiang Music Studio" again to launch Qi Yu's fourth album "There is a Man".

In Hong Kong, among the top ten golden songs of the year, among the 40 songs selected in four quarters, Alan Tam's works accounted for 10 and swept almost all the awards at the end of the year. His two albums, "Foggy Love" and "The Root of Love", were also incredibly successful. At the same time, Leslie Cheung also became popular with the song "Monica" and began his long journey to catch up with Alan Tam.

Also in this year, Huang Yaoming, who served as a DJ on Hong Kong Commercial Radio 2 and hosted the columns of "Breakthrough Moment", "Morning Monday" and "Ming Song Evening Singing", sang a song "Sing for You" in a fundraising record, which was the first time Huang Yaoming sang a song in public.

In the "Amateur Singing Contest of the 18 Districts of Hong Kong" held this year, a young man won the championship with a song "The Kindness of the Earth", which stood out from more than 10,000 contestants. Polygram Records appreciates his singing skills very much, and signed a contract with him as its singer - his name is Jacky Cheung.

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On July 13 of this year, a large-scale rock concert called "Save Lives" was held simultaneously in London, England and Philadelphia, USA. The campaign was launched by Bob-Geldof and Midgeure to raise funds for the famine in Ethiopia.

At noon on the 13th, the concert opened at Wimbledon Stadium in London (72,000 people attended the opening ceremony). Two hours later, the concert at John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia, USA, was also announced, with a total of 90,000 people watching the performance. The show lasted 16 hours and was broadcast live to more than 140 countries via a global communications satellite network, attracting an estimated total of nearly 1.5 billion television viewers. More than 100 famous rock stars from all over the world participated in the benefit performance, including Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, Tina Turner, Elton John, Mike Jackson......

When foreign singers sang "we-are-the-world", Taiwanese singers were also convened by Luo Dayou, Li Shouquan and others, and more than 40 singers worked together to sing a song "Tomorrow Will Be Better" for anti-piracy.

Li Zongsheng, who was still working in "Beat Records", was recommended by Rolling Stone producer Wu Zhengde to write music for singer Pan Yueyun in this year, and signed a contract to enter Rolling Stone, and began to produce Zhang Aijia's album "Busy and Blind" and "Echo" with writer Sanmao's works as the main axis. And Jiang Yuheng from South Korea (born in Seoul, South Korea, Korean-Chinese) inexplicably became popular because of last year's song "The Last Tenderness".

In November of this year, Dianjiang Records launched newcomer Zhang Qingfang, a little girl who was still a student, sang songs like "After the Passion".

Qi Qin returned from serving in the army and released his second album "Wolf". In the role of a creator, he put on a leather coat and sang "I am a wolf from afar......"

The 31-year-old Xue Yue also released his second album "Ladder", and the title song "Airport" caused a sensation. Xue Yue became a gold-plated name, but his liver disease also recurred due to exertion, and his vitality was greatly damaged, so he quit drinking.

In 1985, Teresa Teng won the first place on the "Jukeke" of Japanese Broadcasting for 14 consecutive weeks in Japan with her new song "Lover", and won the "Cable Broadcasting Award" again, while setting two historical records in the Japanese music scene.

This year, the Taiwan Golden Bell Award for Best Female Singer was won by Chen Shuhua, and Qi Yu was more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people because of the album "Sanmao's Work No. 15: Echo".

In 1985, "Shanghai Tang" starring Chow Yun-fat was broadcast in the mainland. Ye Liyi's song "Shanghai Tang" became popular along with the rivers and lakes, love and hate, happiness and hatred in the play.

This year, Cui Jian won attention for the first time in a Beijing singing competition. Guo Feng also wrote "I Think Too Much" in this year, becoming one of the first successful pop music composers. Cheng Lin's "Bear and Cat Mimi" has been rated as one of the top ten golden songs in the country.

This year, for the first time, a Western pop band came to China to perform, and the British "wham!" band performed in Beijing and Guangzhou sensationally, and the ticket in Beijing was 5 yuan a piece, equivalent to half a week's salary of ordinary Chinese at that time, but scalper tickets were sold for 25 yuan / piece.

Along with the performance of the Weimeng band, singer Cheng Fangyuan recorded and released a solo album cassette called "Weimeng Song Chinese Version", and the "Childhood" sung by her also won the "Top Ten Golden Melodies" award that year

The Band Wittmann also held a show in Hong Kong on April 2 of that year, but the total performance lasted less than an hour, causing dissatisfaction among fans.

Newcomer Jacky Cheung has been rated as one of the "Top Ten Celebrities in Hong Kong Performing Arts", and his "Love Has Passed Away" also appeared in Hong Kong's top ten golden songs.

Lu Fang, who was also born in a singing competition, launched his first solo album in 1985 and was an instant hit, and "Unheard Words" was selected as one of the top ten of the year.

One of the young people who followed in their footsteps was Li Keqin, who won the championship of the amateur singing competition in Hong Kong's 19th district this year.

Andy Lau also released a film this year, and the album is called "I Only Know I Love You at the Moment".

This year is the climax of Alan Tam and Leslie Cheung's competition, and it is also the rising period of Hong Kong band trends, Liu Yida advertised in "Swing Fortnightly" to find a partner in the band, Wong Yiu-ming came to apply, and sang a CultureClub work during the audition, and the two hit it off. Broadcaster Yu Cheng named them "Daming Faction" and introduced them to Polygram Records.

Chen Baiqiang disclosed his "five girls in his mind" in this year, namely Zhu Lingling, Ye Qianwen, Lin Qingxia, Maggie Cheung and Zhong Chuhong, but he also said: just appreciation, will not take pursuit of action.

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In 1986, Zhang Qiang, as the first Chinese mainland artist, accepted an exclusive interview with Time magazine in the United States, and with the proud results of solo album sales, and Hui Kenny? Houston, Jennifer? Rush, Teresa Teng and others were named the world's most popular female singers of the year by the magazine. 27 solo albums, more than 20 million albums sold. Zhang Qiang has created a digital myth that has not yet been matched in the mainland pop music scene.

In the same year, at a concert in Beijing to commemorate the 1986 International Year of Peace, Cui Jian walked onto the stage wearing a yellow military uniform and trouser legs and sang his new work "Nothing". At the end of the song, the stunned audience gave a standing ovation.

Soon, young people in China began playing and singing Cui Jian's songs on guitar in dormitories and cafes on campus. Wang Shuo later recalled: "The first time I listened to "A Red Cloth", I was about to cry. Well written! At that time, I felt that we could not write as well as his three words. ”

The song "Xintianyou" detonated the "Northwest Wind" in the mainland in this year, and a few famous works were covered by countless singers.

At the same time, Hong Kong and Taiwan artists represented by Qi Qin and Su Rui landed in a big way, and the emergence of original songs and original works made the trend of "cover songs" in the mainland music scene gradually disappear.

It was also in this year that the two TV series "Dream of Red Mansions" and "Journey to the West" were released, and all the theme songs and interludes were immediately sung all over the streets.

In Taiwan, Huang Yingying, who debuted in the music industry in 1974, sang a song "News from the Heart" in 1986, which brought about a surprising transformation.

Cai Qin went to Hong Kong in 1986 to shoot her second film "Underground Love" and was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the Hong Kong Film Awards, and his lead theme song "Underground Love" was also shortlisted for Best Theme Song.

Pan Yueyun released the album "Old Love, New Love", which reached a new peak in her solo singing career, produced by Li Zongsheng, which was the first time that a Taiwanese singer went to the United States to record a work, which was the first of its kind in the atmosphere.

Li Zongsheng himself published "The Elves of Life" in January 1986. Li Zongsheng showed extraordinary creative talent in this album, and there was no cold scene from beginning to end. The arrangement of the whole album is based on the acoustic guitar and occasionally embellished with simple orchestra accompaniment, which is condensed, concentrated and full of tension, which is an unheard of innovation in Taiwanese pop music. Tong Ange, who was still unknown at the time, also served as the chorus of the song "Nobody Knows".

In the same year, a new form of entertainment, karaoke, was introduced from Japan to Taiwan.

Luo Dayou, who lives in Hong Kong, composed the theme song for the movie "Flowers of the Sea", which was sung by Zhen Ni. The popularity of "Tomorrow Will Be Better" sparked a chorus trend, followed by songs such as "A Hundred Years of Hope", "Waves and Sands", "A Few Stormy Days", "Song of Peace" and so on. Taiwanese singers have also taken advantage of the momentum of "Tomorrow Will Be Better" to come to Hong Kong many times to explore the way or appear in Hong Kong in groups, such as Chen Shuhua, Doll, Li Zongsheng, Li Shouquan, Zhang Qingfang, Ji Hongren, Article, Wu David, etc., but unfortunately almost all of them returned in vain. Only Li Zongsheng, although he failed to open the market, married Zhu Weiyin of Radio Television Hong Kong.

Luo Wen's song "A Little Wind and Rain" became a sensation and set off a trend of autobiographical songs, and Liu Meijun's frustration in the Asia-Pacific pop song writing competition became a myth in the Hong Kong music scene at the end of 1986.

Leslie Cheung sang the song "Love of the Year", and 17 years later, at the 2003 Hong Kong Film Awards, Andy Lau, Jacky Cheung, Liming, and Aaron Kwok wore black suits and sang the song softly. Previously, Leslie Cheung, who sang this song that year, committed suicide by falling from a building.

Also in 1986, there was a young man who wrote lyrics who heard his work for the first time on the officially released record, his name was Lin Xi.

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In Taiwan in 1987, Zhou Huajian, a newcomer who sang many advertising songs, became popular with his debut album "The Direction of the Heart", and it was Li Zongsheng who produced the album for him.

Jiang Yuheng, who had just jumped to UFO, was lucky and came across a good song called "Flying Heart".

In the same year, Zhang Xinzhe, a young man studying at Christ College, won the championship of the English individual and group folk song competitions, and joined Jushi Music in the same year, and has since entered the music scene.

Qi Qin released his third album "Winter Rain", which was quite a bestseller, but strangely, the most popular song was the third song on the B-side "About Winter" and another song "The Outside World".

His sister Qi Yu went to Singapore to produce and sing her first English album "Stories", which sold 160,000 copies within a month of its release in Taiwan, causing a sensation. Within a week of its release, it topped the Hong Kong English Charts.

In the mainland, at CCTV's Spring Festival Gala, Taiwanese singer Fei Xiang sang two songs, after his album recorded by Guangzhou Pacific Audio-Visual Company was unpopular in audio-visual stores around the country, but immediately after the party, 1.6 million copies were sold. At that time, large-character advertisements could often be seen at the door of the store: "Fei Xiang arrives" or "Fei Xiang is out of stock".

Another song called "Bloodstained Style" was also sung by Xu Liang and Wang Hong at this Spring Festival Gala and became popular.

In 1987, large-scale creative concerts such as "Life", "5 Billion of Us" and "10 Years for the Disabled" were launched one after another. Cui Jian participated in the charity performance of the restoration of Lugou Bridge and launched new works such as "Please Let Me Sleep Well".

Under the direct training of composer Gu Jianfen, Mao Amin won the award in Yugoslavia in 1987, and Wei Wei was also selected by the Ministry of Culture to participate in the 24th Sopot Music Festival in Poland, and won the Special Award for Singing and the TV Beauty Award.

In 1987, Li Lingyu, who had already sung "Tianzhu Girl", once went to perform in other places, she took advantage of the time to go to a video store and found that the counter was full of her own albums, and the packaging was all "Sweet Song Queen", "Sweet Sweet" and the like. Li Lingyu was surprised, she had no idea that she had been pushed to the position of "Queen of Sweet Songs".

Singer Hang Tianqi graduated from Capital Normal University in 1987 with a dissertation entitled "On the Artistic Characteristics of Schumann's Works and the Artistic Treatment and Singing of Song Dedication", with which she received a bachelor of music in literature.

In Hong Kong, Leslie Cheung showed signs of catching up with Alan Tam when his album "Summer-romance" beat Alan Tam's two famous albums "Portrait on the Wall" and "Goodbye?! "Romance" became the best album of the year, and the title song "Unintentional Sleep" squeezed out Principal Tan's "Don't-Saygoodbye" and was selected as the Golden Melody Gold Award for the Top Ten Golden Songs.

Lin Yilian launched "Gray" in the same year, this album quickly topped the pop list as soon as it was launched, the song of the same name "Gray" won the "Top Ten Chinese" and "Top Ten Songs" awards in one fell swoop, and the other "Passion" won the "Best Music Video" that year, many critics always like to make a big fuss from Lin Yilian's eyes, laughing at her as "hazy pig eyes".

Luo Dayou released "Missing" in Hong Kong, as the theme song of the movie "Confused Love", originally sung by Jacky Cheung, and won the Golden Voice Award for Best Composition.

Also at the end of this year, a mainland girl settled in Hong Kong from Beijing, and was introduced by her father and friend to Dai Sicong as a teacher to learn to sing. Her name is Faye Wong.

Beyond collaborated with the Seal Theatre on the stage play Bad Girls.

The Damien faction sang "The Story of the Stone". The song is mixed with classical Chinese imagery and the mysteries of the modern city—listening to the light music of the misty world, and people dancing alone in their clothes and sideburns. Single-mindedly throwing away his thoughts seems to be imaginary, and the old dreams in the deep courtyard come back to the ups and downs...... (To be continued.) )