The old wolf said that in his heart, in addition to Park Shu, there was also a genius, and that person was named Yu Dong.
As a campus folk singer, Yu Dong also composed lyrics for a number of outstanding singers: "From My Heart" by Old Wolf, "Tiger Mouth Escape", Ye Bei's "In the Doom"...
You've probably heard the words he wrote, "Did you hear that voice, it's like I'm suddenly close and far, telling you that he comes from my heart", and maybe you can follow up with a few words of "Tiger's Mouth" that the old wolf loves to sing.
Yu Dong was talented and had attracted attention, but an accident in 2001 put him in prison.
After his release from prison, he completely quit the music circle and went to work for an IT company in Zhongguancun.
Today, let's follow Yu Dong's music and see the trajectory of the life of this golden age singer of campus folk songs.
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leave
Born in 1972, Yu Dong is 3 years younger than Gao Xiaosong, 1 year older than Pu Shu, and 2 years older than Li Jian.
In high school, he often went to the playground of Beijing Agricultural and Technological University (now China Agricultural University) to walk around, and one day, he met Shen Qing and Lu Xuejun, who played the piano and sang there.
Shen Qing's "Youth" and Lu Xuejun's "Loneliness Is Because I Miss Whom" are classics in campus folk songs.
Yu Dong, who loves music, found a fellow traveler and has been out of control ever since.
In 1988, he was admitted to Tsinghua University. A year later, Mizuki's Lu Gengzhi will become his alumnus.
It was a golden age, and enthusiastic musical youths often gathered on college roads.
They play guitar and sing on the Lawn of Peking University, write songs to each other like poets, and do not know whether the works will have the opportunity to be published in the future, but they strive to grow up with their dreams.
In 1994, Yu Dong's solo single "Departure" was included in the most important album in the history of Chinese campus folk songs: "Campus Folk Songs 1".
"You at the Same Table" and "Brother Sleeping on My Top Bunk" are also the first time to meet the people of the whole country through this album.
Listen to the songs of old age, don't blame me for feeling sad
If you can understand please face my pale
Yu Dong's voice is clean and sincere, and there is the strength and vitality of the first sharp edge in "Leaving". (The music software does not have this song, so the song in this section uses "Parting City")
I wonder if "leaving" implies that he dropped out of film school in 1991? He wanted to settle with his past life and enter a new track.
As a result, the film school did not enter, and Yu Dong became a producer at the record company.
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Open-air cinema
In 1995, after writing a lot of songs for others, Yu Dong released his first and only solo album, "Open Air Cinema".
Harmonica sounds like the spinning of old-fashioned projector film, and the sound of guitar and singing begins to reminisce about the past, the open-air cinema of childhood.
There are no more open-air cinemas in the city
I never saw the opposite side of the screen again
Are you still doing the game then
When I watch the movie, I can't see the stars
The filming and editing of the MV are nostalgic, opening with close-ups of movie tickets and projectors, people carrying small benches gathered in the open space downstairs, children playing pranks on the blank screen by light, and they eagerly await the start of the screening.
Yu Dong, who "returned to his hometown", held the microphone and sang slowly and restrainedly, the scenes were constantly switching, the empty screening area, the modern exquisite building, the bare ice surface, the modern big screen of Beijing Station...
He misses the lost past: the children who nibble on the lollipop are fascinated by romance films; the romance, revolution, song and dance, gunfights that flow on the screen in those years...
That was the beginning of all imagination.
"Open Air Cinema" was the annual hit in 1995, and Yu Dong won the National Best Singer-Songwriter Award.
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You in my heart
According to the limited information on the Internet, friends have the impression that Yu Dong is very restrained and low-key, "gentle and shy, often sullen smoking, occasionally saying two sentences and blushing."
When he was young, Yu Dong liked Qi Qin, "Maybe the feeling of loneliness in "Wolf" was also in my adolescent growth at that time. ”
His loneliness and melancholy were written into his own music and his love "You in My Heart".
Memories of the past give me a pair of wings
Fly to where you once loved me
Let me still feel sorry for you now
Remembering the past, I am happy and sad.
The melodious violin in the song is like the "gentle gaze" of the lover, appearing at the beginning and end, and the meaning of never forgetting is obvious.
This song is also the old wolf's favorite.
△ Wangjing Huluwa is the old wolf
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Winter in Beijing
We know that "Winter in Beijing" may be because of Old Wolf's 2007 self-titled album, while Yu Dong's original version was released in 1995.
The day the north wind blew in
Migratory birds have flown far
Our love becomes an endless expectation
Folk musician Zhong Lifeng once wrote, "The version of the old wolf is bright and upward, and Yu Dong himself sings a slight gray loneliness, more like a warm and ancient winter sun." Exhale a breath, there is warmth, there is coolness, there is a wordless inner surge. ”
Yu Dong is more "lonely", but also not deliberate.
The expression of music should be sincere, in line with their own sincerity, and sing out to be moving. It is difficult for a pretentious singing to penetrate deeply into the hearts of the listeners.
Yu Dong's sincerity and humanistic care have always been deeply loved by people in the industry.
The judges of some music talent shows called out, "If anyone sees Yu Dong, please tell him that there are many people in this music scene waiting for him to return."
The old wolf often mentioned the talent in his heart, and he wanted to hold a special performance of Yu Dong.
In 2016, at a circle party at the Yugong Moving Mountain Bar, the old wolf sang 5 songs of Yu Dong's song in a row.
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Time passes
What is it that makes Yu Dong stop making music?
According to news reports, in the early morning of November 1, 2001, Yu Dong accidentally knocked down an old woman and killed her while driving near the workers' body in Beijing's Chaoyang District.
He actively cooperated with the police, tried his best to reassure the family of the deceased, and compensated 150,000 yuan.
On March 11, 2002, Yu Dong was sentenced to one year in prison with one year's probation for the crime of causing a traffic accident.
That year, a lot of things happened in the campus folk music scene.
Gao Xiaosong directed "When the Flowers Bloomed", the old wolf came out with a new album "Sunny", Ye Bei won many awards, Park Shu, who is loved by young people, may have begun to conceive a second album "Born like a summer flower", Mizuki Nianhua's "Life with You" is all over China, Li Jian quit Mizuki Nianhua and is ready to fly alone...
After that year, there was no longer Yu Dong in the music circle, and he chose to disappear, hiding in the city's mobile crowds...
His exit, like a sudden interruption of youth, is hasty and helpless, making people stunned and regretful.
Time turns out to be that simple
Easily change our smiling faces
Time turns out to be so dangerous
Easily change our promises
If time can really pass, perhaps the campus folk songs can still retain a depressed winter energy.
He was talented and courageous, and like in the song "Time Goes By," he added jazz elements to the folk songs.
He is special.
Campus folk songs once recorded the sad ideals of a generation, the confused youth. The main thing that sets it apart from other folk songs is that most of those songs were written on college campuses.
Today, the fragile, high-minded, poetic and intellectual mentality from the ivory tower life is no longer "fashionable", and playing the piano and singing on the campus grass has long ceased to be popular.
The world has changed.
But, just as the modern cinema is taller, the humble and backward open-air cinema has its own advantages, and we will always be nostalgic for the songs of the past, as well as the singers who compose music like handicraft artists.
The receding yu winter is like the frozen ice of the Beijing winter, and his voice takes us back to the slow and quiet 90s.