January 16, 2000, Hong Kong Hung Hom Coliseum, the last Top Ten Golden Songs Awards Concert of the 20th century (1999).
The extremely important "Honorary Award" went to Leslie Cheung. This is a non-competitive but very important award. It is roughly similar to the "Golden Needle Award" of the "Top Ten Chinese Golden Songs" next door. It has the nature of a "lifetime achievement award".
Although, Leslie Cheung was only 43 years old this year.
After receiving the trophy from Wireless Director Mrs. Lee Hyo-wa and giving a casual acceptance speech, Leslie Cheung sang three songs for the audience and guests: "", "Who Can Resonate" and "Left and Right Hands". On the stage, he has an elegant style and infinite charm in his movements, which instantly ignited the audience.
In the audience, Andy Lau, Aaron Kwok, Sammi Cheng, Kelly Chan, Gigi Leung and other guests all had expressions on their faces like fans of younger brothers and younger sisters. Their eyes were full of uncontrollable excitement and admiration, and they all paid tribute to this senior singer.
Obviously, these three songs sung by Leslie Cheung were carefully selected. Because every song has extraordinary significance to him and even the Hong Kong music scene.
Today, let’s talk about these three songs.
"", included in the album "" (1984), is a fast song with a strong dance style. The tune is hot and dynamic, the rhythm is lively and lively, full of youthful passion and vitality, and has a strong appeal.
What is particularly rare is that this song presents a soothing and melancholic style that is very different from most of Leslie Cheung's previous songs such as "Infatuated" and "The Wind Keeps Blowing". It is refreshing and can be regarded as a landmark representative work of early Cantonese songs in the entire Hong Kong music scene. .
The song was composed by Yoshikawa Koji, Li Peter wrote the lyrics, and Li Xiaotian arranged the music. The three people joined forces to ensure the quality while also laying a solid foundation for it to become popular and sing on the streets, winning unanimous praise from the industry and the public.
At the end of the year, it is no surprise that this song "double-killed" the top ten Chinese golden songs and the top ten golden songs in 1984, making Leslie Cheung almost as popular as Alan Tam, a frequent guest on these two golden music award lists.
At this time, everyone realized that the huge success of "" not only further established Leslie Cheung's status as a superstar in the music industry, but also directly kicked off the "Tan-Zhang Competition".
Leslie Cheung himself began to dominate the "Top Ten Golden Songs" with Alan Tam for several years, until the two announced their farewell to the music industry in 1988 and 1989 respectively (no longer receiving competitive awards).
After years of precipitation and washing, this song not only has not faded from people's memory, but has become more and more charming. At the turn of the century, at the 22nd Top Ten Chinese Golden Melody Award Ceremony, "" won the "Top Ten Golden Melody Award of the 20th Century".
There is no doubt that "" is the No. 1 among all Leslie Cheung's fast songs. In his later period, some of his fast songs such as "Refuse to Play Again", "Side", and "Unintentional Sleep" are also excellent and can be called classics, but in terms of popularity, popularity and influence, they are still inferior to this song "" Slightly less so.
The phrase "Who can take your place" in the song later became a common sentiment among Rong fans in remembering and evaluating Leslie Cheung.
In 1986, the "Tan-Zhang struggle for hegemony" entered a fierce stage.
At that year's Top Ten Golden Songs Awards Ceremony, Alan Tam's two songs "Speechless Gratitude" and "Friends" were selected, and he himself won the "Most Popular Male Singer Award".
Leslie Cheung also had two songs selected, namely "Love of the Past" and "Who Resonates". The latter even won the grand finale – the "Golden Melody Award". Anyone familiar with the Golden Song Awards knows that this is an award that represents the highest honor for a single song and is a high degree of recognition for songwriters and singers.
One holds the "Most Popular Award" and the other strives for the "Golden Melody Award". They are almost evenly matched.
"Who Resonates" was composed by Tanimura Shinji and written by Xiaomei. It is included in the album "Love Fire". The lyricist Xiao Mei, whose real name is Liang Meiwei, is a talented behind-the-scenes figure in Xiangjiang.
Before becoming Aaron Kwok's agent, Xiaomei had written lyrics for many powerful singers such as Jacky Cheung, Andy Lau, Wang Jie, Leslie Cheung, etc., including "Really Love You", "Drunk at Sunset" and "Together". "The Days We Passed", "Who Can Resonate", "Block My Life", etc.
This is a song tailor-made for Leslie Cheung by Xiaomei. Every word in the lyrics is touching. It can be said that Leslie Cheung's ups and downs in the music industry for ten years since he entered the music industry in 1977 have been fully described.
If you listen to this song together with "Silence is Golden", it may have more flavor and resonance. If you take a closer look, you will find that the themes of the two have something in common.
In fact, at the 1989 farewell concert, Leslie Cheung sang these two songs together.
After Leslie Cheung passed away in 2003, Tang Hede, who had been with him for half his life, published a seven-character obituary to mourn him as a "close friend".
It's a quiet night, who can resonate with me.
The obituary published by relatives of the Zhang family reads:
The wind continues to blow, and I can’t bear to stay away.
"Left and Right Hands" is a masterpiece released after Leslie Cheung came back to Universal Music Group. It was included in his solo album "Countdown with You" released in 1999. As soon as the song was released, it became a hit on major radio stations and was well received, sweeping all major award ceremonies.
But Mr. Zhang chose to refuse to accept the award because he had said when he came back that he would not receive any competitive awards in the future.
Regarding this song, you can find this interview on the Internet:
Reporter: Does your new song "Left and Right Hands" represent different sexual orientations?
Zhang Sheng: This is written by Lin Xi. You should ask him.