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In October 1986, Cheung Kwok Wing Cantonese album "Cheung Kwok Wing Love Fire"

Zhang Guorong's last album at Huaxing Records was also the first time that Zhang Guorong joined the record supervision work, co-producing his own album with Li Xiaotian. Of the 11 songs in total, 8 are cover songs by Japanese people. He can choose his favorite music more freely to show himself, and more deeply establish his own musical style. Since the beginning of this album, zhang Guorong's published records have mostly been released simultaneously in the three media of LP (vinyl records), MC (cassette/cassette/tape, also known as CS), and CD (laser laser records). The CD version of the album contains one more "Love" than the LP album. The album has a lot of enduring golden songs, including the theme song of the movie "The True Colors of Heroes" "The Year of Love", the autobiographical song "Who Resonates", the gentle "Confuse Me", as well as the "Love Fire" that he personally filled in, and the theme song of the radio drama "When the Love Is Thick" and so on. Among many Hong Kong singers, Zhang Guorong is definitely a singer with his own distinctive characteristics, and a large part of this achievement depends on his personal participation in the production of most records, and he can inject his understanding of music and his grasp of the song's own personality into the record. From this point of view, this "Zhang Guorong Love Fire" is definitely one of the most important works of Zhang Guorong's life.

In October 1986, Cheung Kwok Wing Cantonese album "Cheung Kwok Wing Love Fire"

01. Adoration

Original music: (1986.04) Hideaki Saijo - Eyes of Remembrance ~ Lola

Composer: Toshiyuki Ajiguchi

Lyricist: Zheng Guojiang

Arrangement: Kiki Funayama

In the 1970s, when Hideki Nishijo became famous, the identity of the singer was much larger than that of these idols and girl groups today, and the double test from the audience and the stage was unimaginable to these small fresh meats now. Relatively speaking, Hideki himself in the 1970s was not first-class, he did not have the ultimate high-pitched range and a clear and heavenly voice, but he relied on his perception of the song itself to create a "singing" style of singing, with a very emotional and nearly torn voice to express the meaning of the song. In particular, he performed "Chasing the Pupil ~ Lola" at the Red and White Song Conference, and when the song came to an end, three consecutive ascension shouts to the heroine of the song, "Lola", covered up once and again, making people fall for it.

In October 1986, Cheung Kwok Wing Cantonese album "Cheung Kwok Wing Love Fire"

02. Confuse me

Original music: (1986.09) Akiko Kobayashi - 爱 is Energy

Composer: Akiko Kobayashi

Lyricist: Yang Jixing

Arrangement: Li Xiaotian

As a singer-songwriter, Akiko Kobayashi has released 21 singles, 7 solo albums and 8 selections in her singing career for more than 20 years. When it comes to Akiko Kobayashi, one must think of the song "恋におちて -Fall in love-", which was released in August 1985 and made Akiko Kobayashi famous (although her first appearance as a composer was in ブレッド&バター(ター(ターズーン?アイズ) in the 1984 work "ムーン?アイズ"), which is also widely regarded as a representative of the 80s JPOP love songs.

In October 1986, Cheung Kwok Wing Cantonese album "Cheung Kwok Wing Love Fire"

03. When the emotion is strong

Music: Rei Oda

Lyricist: Caron

In one hand, Zhang Guorong, Mei Yanfang, etc., Li Xiaotian, who was once known as an all-round musician. Son of the famous musician Lai Cao Tin, Hong Kong pop music composer and arranger. He was a child actor in the 1950s and a band foreman in the 1960s. In the 1970s, he formed the "JiaYan and Oda" group with Xue Jiayan, which was very popular. In addition to the pre-screen performances, Lai has also supervised numerous records, as well as composed a large number of outstanding pop songs, film and television theme songs and interludes, such as "Ask Me", "The Grace of the Earth", "When People Shed Tears on the Journey" and other classic works. Representative works include "The Grace of the Earth", "Rouge Buckle", "When People Shed Tears on the Journey", "The Great Wall Never Falls" and so on.

In October 1986, Cheung Kwok Wing Cantonese album "Cheung Kwok Wing Love Fire"

04. Invisible Man

Original music: (1985.09) Kenji Koda - Woman Without Private Life

Chinese: (1985.11) Zhang Guorong - Midnight Mercedes

Composer: Katsuo Ohno

Lyricist: Lin Zhenqiang

Arrangement: Roddy

Kemo Ohno as a Hawaiian guitarist, and a musical performance centered on a jazz café in Kansai was the beginning of his musical activities. For 10 years from 1962 to 1972, Ohno was active in the Japanese music scene as a member of the band THE SPIDERS. After the band disbanded, he formed a singing group with Kenji Sawada, Kenichi Hagiwara, and then appeared on stage as a member of Inoue BOND, during which time he composed a large number of songs for Kenji Sawada, including the famous "Shi の過ぎゆくままに" (arbitrarily let time pass), which later became Zhong Zhentao's cover of the Cantonese golden song "Let Everything Follow the Wind", which was later covered by Wu Bai as Chinese's "Love You for Ten Thousand Years".

In October 1986, Cheung Kwok Wing Cantonese album "Cheung Kwok Wing Love Fire"

05. Love of the year

The theme song of the movie "The True Colors of Heroes"

Composer: Gu Jiahui

Lyricist: Huang Xia

Arrangement: Gu Jiahui

Released in August 1986, the box office champion film "The True Colors of Heroes" is a gunfight film invested and produced by New Art City Pictures Co., Ltd., directed by Wu Yusen and starring Dillon, Zhang Guorong and Chow Yun Fat. The film tells the story of the jianghu love between Song Zihao, Mark, and Song Zijie, as well as the frustrations, failures, repentances and revenge of the three protagonists. The film won several awards at the Hong Kong Film Awards and the Bay Golden Horse Awards.

In October 1986, Cheung Kwok Wing Cantonese album "Cheung Kwok Wing Love Fire"

06. The choice of love

Original: Stardust Revue - Triangle Love

Composer: Motoaki Masuo

Lyricist: Pan Weiyuan

Poon Wai Yuen is a famous lyricist in Hong Kong. In his early years, he worked as a teacher in a private school, and in 1978, he stepped into the world of words and published his first work as Fang Yiqi's "Sand Gull". Poon Wai Yuen was one of the leading lyricists in the Hong Kong music scene in the 1980s and 1990s, with a large number of works and ever-changing subject matter, and his works are still popular today. Together with the Hong Kong lyricist Pan Yuanliang, he is called "Erpan".

07. Who resonates

Original music: Shinji Tanimura - Ephemeral

Composer: Shinji Tanimura

Lyricist: Xiaomei

Arrangement: Zhao Zengxi

Shinji Tanamura, a native of Osaka, Japan, born on December 11, 1948, is a musician and singer who is well known and influential in the Japanese and Asian music scenes. He is currently a permanent professor of the Department of Music Engineering of Shanghai Conservatory of Music and an advisor of the Sino-Japanese Music Culture Research Center. Tanimura's song "Star" is the most familiar and loved by people from all over the world, and has been adapted into different language versions, becoming an immortal classic. Some of the superstars have also covered many of his works, including Teresa Teng, Jacky Cheung, Luo Wen, Tan Yonglin, Mui Yanfang, Kwan ZhengJie, Xu Xiaofeng, Zhang Guorong and others.

Looking up at the starry sky is quiet, I walk alone, the night rain gradually stops, wordless is the calm of the moment, smile and ask who, liver and gallbladder to take care of.

The wind is also clear, telling me that the change is uncertain, the unknown is that I smile bitterly but do not stop, do not believe in fate, only believe in the hands to fight hard, the contradiction is powerless to pause, but will know that my heart is sleepy and full of heart, the night is quiet, ask anyone who resonates.

In the past, it was naïve and not calm, loved freedom, or would forget the form, understand that there is always a certainty of gain and loss, go or stay, easy to correspond.

Shivering in loneliness, I know that I am really uncomfortable, ask who is willing to lose their freedom, want to retreat, feel satisfied that I have, go to seek with all my strength, the wind is clear, in the evening sky I ask a sentence of stars, the night is quiet, ask who resonates.

08. Edge of fire

Original music: (1986.09) Hideaki Saijo - Crime of Rain of Dream

Composer: Takuji Sawamura

Arrangement: Hiroyuki Namba

Lin Zhenqiang (1949 – November 17, 2003), nicknamed OnionHead, Qiangbo, Silly Qiang, is a famous Hong Kong lyricist and columnist, cartoonist, senior advertising writer, creative director, and a well-known ghost talent in the advertising industry. Between the 1980s and the 1990s, he was active in the Hong Kong crossword circle, leaving behind more than a thousand works, and was called "Two Forests and One Yellow" along with the famous Fillers of Hong Kong Cantonese pop songs at that time, Wong Chun and Lam Min-chi.

09. Edge of Fire

Original music: Ueda Masanori - Sad color

Composer: Tetsuji Hayashi

Lyricist: Zhang Guorong

Arrangement: Yao Zhihan

In the heyday of composition in the 1980s, Hayashi wrote nearly 200 songs. As for the number of songs covered by Hong Kong and Taiwan singers, there are also as many as thirty songs, but compared to the state of highly sought after by Yuji Koji's works, Lin Zhesi's works do not seem to be particularly favored by Hong Kong and Taiwan singers, except for Chen Baiqiang's "Deeply In Love with You", Zhang Guorong's "Love Fire" and Mui Yanfang's "Don't Believe in Love and Guilt", other works are mostly covered by Hong Kong and Taiwan second-line singers. Although hong Kong people's enthusiasm for Hayashi Hayashi is not high, in Japan, Hayashi is a pivotal music producer. Whether it is an idol singer or a powerful singer, his works are adopted. Apricot《Sorrowしみがとまらない、杉山清貴&Omega Tribe's "SUMMER SUSPICION"、稲垣潤一「思い出のビーチクラブ》、原田知世《天国にいちばん近い島》、Kikuchi Momoko《雪にかいたLOVE LETTER》...... These beautiful melodies were also finally affirmed by the market and listeners.

10.CRAZY ROCK

原曲:ANN LEWIS - Slumber Party

Chinese: Zhang Guorong - Uncertain Age (1986.11) Zhan Demao filled in the words

Composer: Annie

Arrangement: Su Dehua

Su Dehua, nicknamed Dumbo, was one of the top guitarists in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia in the 1980s. He is now a well-known studio guitarist and composer in Hong Kong. There are countless singers who have worked with her, including Tam Wing Lin, Wong Ka Koo, Jacky Cheung, Andy Lau, Li Ming, Wang Jie, Chan Hui Lin, Miriam Yeung, Eason Chan, Joey Yung, Twins, Leung Wing Ki, Faye Wong, Lin Yilian, Mui Yanfang, Cheung Kwok Wing, Chen Baiqiang, Zheng Yuan... Wait a minute. Su Shi, who integrates composer, arranger and record producer, has served as the music director of Wang Jie's concert, and has served as a record producer for many singers, and has participated in the production of thousands of songs, sparing no effort for the development of the Hong Kong music scene over the years.

11.MIRACLE

Chorus: Zhang Guorong / Mai Jiewen

作曲:Steve Davis/Justin Peters

Arrangement: Du Self-Sustaining

Du Zizhi, born in Hong Kong, grew up in a musical family, his father is an excellent jazz pianist, when he was 22 years old, under the introduction of his father, he met the "godfather of pop music" in Hong Kong - Gu Jiahui, and served as his personal assistant, officially entering the pop music recording industry. Du's self-sustaining skills are music made under electronic synthesizers, namely dance music, jazz in blues and bossa nova, regardless of rhythm, timbre selection or arrangement creativity. The details, density and fluency of the song are all at the level of top-level, a variety of distinct styles are full of its unique "Du" label under the integration of Teacher Du, and professionals have summarized its arranging elements in the following four ways: one is the bass line played by its harpsichord, the second is the beautiful richness of its chorus part hidden behind the main melody of the chord chant, the third is the synthetic horn timbre, the fourth is the application of the tone of the color of the color, these four elements are usually combined with each other. As soon as I heard it, I knew that it was from the hand of a person who was highly talented.

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