On the first stage of "Sound and Endless", Li Jian chose a song "Silence is Gold" to pay tribute to Zhang Guorong.
An empty chair, a solo solo, adapting "Silence is Golden" and "If I Am Now" has a unique flavor.
It is said that Li Jian's singing voice is very similar to Tan Yonglin, and Li Jian also does not shy away from mentioning in public that he regards the "principal" as an idol and is greatly influenced by the "principal".
This song "Silence is Golden" is a song sung by Zhang Guorong Mingzhi that year.
Can't help but remind people of the prosperity of the "Tan Zhang Controversy" in that year.
More than 30 years have passed, and there is no such a thing as a prosperous world.
In 1977, Zhang Guorong made his debut.
At that time, Tan Yonglin had been debuting with the "Wen Na Band" for a long time, the two did not intersect, and their status could not be discussed, but the appearance of the two became a topic of discussion among tabloid reporters.
In an interview, a reporter from Ming Pao Weekly asked Zhang Guorong: "Has anyone said that you are like Tan Yonglin of Wenna?" ”
Zhang Guorong touched the tip of his ear: "He is not as tall as me, and he wears high heels only to me." ”
In fact, the two are about the same height, Tan Yonglin is 174 cm tall, Zhang Guorong is 175, this sentence is obviously a joke, but it has been made a big fuss.
It also seems to lay the groundwork for future competition.
The following year, Tan Yonglin debuted in his personal name, but he did not choose to continue singing, but went to Taiwan to develop, shooting more than 20 literary and artistic films with love themes.
Starred in "If I Were True" and won the 18th Golden Horse Film Emperor in one fell swoop.
The whole film is full of Gogol-style black humor, only at the end, he is trapped in prison and is determined to end up committing suicide, and before dying, he says: "If I am real..."
At the golden horse award ceremony, Tam Wing Lin received a congratulatory message from Xu Ke and was repeatedly told that if he returned to Hong Kong one day, he must meet him.
However, after a few years of mixing in the Taiwanese film and television industry, Tan Yonglin still feels that she likes to sing.
When the "Wenna Five Tigers" was disbanded, fans mourned for a long time.
Wenner was one of the first popular music groups.
They extended the European and American style, tried their best to imitate the Beatles in style, long hair, sunglasses, flared pants, leading the 70s Hong Kong music scene.
The earliest youth idol groups, the earliest mass lovers group, were influenced and driven by them, and the Hong Kong band culture was able to rise, and hall-level groups such as Beyond, Daming Yipai, and Grasshopper emerged.
At the craziest time, the fans' popularity was not lost at all to the current "bastard meal", the heels of the shoes were pulled off by them, and people living on the fifth floor of the room climbed up to the window to ask for a group photo.
Later, Zhong Zhentao received an invitation from Qiong Yao to choose to fly alone, and the other members also got various opportunities to brew their own careers.
Tan Yonglin gathered everyone, cut through the iron group can not be dispersed, every 5 years to gather, this is to save the combination.
In 1981, Tam returned to Hong Kong and decided to continue her singing career.
At this time, Zhang Guorong has not yet become popular, and filmed film and television dramas such as "Ranger Zhang Sanfeng", which can be regarded as a mixed face.
In the same year, Zhang Guorong and Ye Tong filmed "Burning Youth", which brought him the nomination for the first Academy Award in his life.
In 1982, Zhang Guorong followed his mentor Li Xiaotian to Huaxing Records and met his later manager Chen Shufen. In 1983, the album "The Wind Continues to Blow" was released, and the Cantonese title song "The Wind Continues to Blow" with the same name became one of Cheung Kwok Wing's popular songs.
In 1984, the album "Leslie" was released, and the local sales in Hong Kong exceeded four platinums; The song "Monica" was selected as the 7th Top Ten Chinese Golden Song and the 2nd Top Ten Golden Song, which also established Zhang Guorong's status as a superstar in the song world.
This year, Tan Yonglin also found his own singing career direction.
In 1984, Tam Wing Lin further carried forward the Cantonese songs founded by Hui Guanjie and Luo Wen and reached its peak in one fell swoop.
The originally clear, no-nonsense singing set the foundation for "The Roots of Love", and once the album was launched, it received unprecedented sales of eight platinum 400,000 copies.
At the Golden Melody Awards Ceremony of the Top Ten Songs that year, Tan Yonglin indisputably won the Most Popular Male Singer Award, and three songs, "The Root of Love", "Phantom" and "Love in Late Autumn", were selected as the Top Ten Golden Melody Awards.
By 1987, he had produced four albums, including Portrait on the Wall, and his originally beautiful voice was maturing.
"Love Trap", "Portrait on the Wall", "Confidant as a Doll", "Boundless Remembrance" write a romantic love song epic.
Those years were Tam Wing Lin's highest light, winning almost all pop music awards, and no one in the entire music scene could break his wrist.
Only Zhang Guorong can compete with him.
Zhang Guorong quietly rose in the style of "Yuppis".
In 1985, the first opening of the Red Pavilion opened ten consecutive performances, breaking the record for the number of hong Kong singers' first concerts.
Huang said it was a game in which Cheung Kwok Wing chased Tam Wing Lin.
In 1986, Cheung Kwok Wing was selected for 7 songs in the "Top Ten Golden Songs" season in Hong Kong that year, and he had 5 number one songs on the RTHK Dragon and Tiger Chart that year.
In the same year, he defeated Tam Wing Lin with a song "Who Resonates" to win the 1986 Golden Melody Gold Award, the grand finale of the Top Ten Golden Songs, and since then there has been a situation of "Tan Zhang Contending for Hegemony" in the Hong Kong music scene.
The Gemini stars, which should have become a good story, evolved into a bloody storm of "being bullied" in the hype of gossip newspapers.
Fans on both sides are instigated by public opinion, seeing each other as a thorn in the eye, when the singer wins the award, the fans of their own side of the glow stick frantically waving, cheering and shouting, the other side of the fans are either dead silent, or desperately whistle and cheer.
In February 1988, the Top Ten Chinese Golden Melody Awards, Tam Wing Lin was selected for three songs, once again suppressed one of Cheung Kwok Wing's songs, and won the annual sales of the album, the tabloids once again played whether to make up Tan Wing Lin's company and radio secret song.
When the ninth song of the golden song was awarded, the guest Zhou Runfa joked in order to enliven the atmosphere: It won't be Arun again, it won't be fake.
In a word, let the colleagues who were not angry about rumors almost fight with the on-site producers, and in the midst of the sword, Tan Yonglin stepped onto the stage.
He said: "The award I won this year will be the last time in the music world, and in the next few days, I will no longer participate in any programs with music song competitions.
Fans cried out one after another, and even Zhang Guorong's fans desperately shouted no.
The fans' faces full of tears prompted Tan Yonglin to slowly raise the microphone and sing "Wordless Gratitude", a sound, a word, a sentence, thanksgiving has always supported them:
Faith is hidden in the heart, and there are thousands of words of gratitude.
In order to show his heart, Zhang Guorong sang a song "Silence is Golden" with Xu Guanjie, and he sang:
False accusations and accusations are backlogged with anger
The reaction to the rumors was very tight
I was taught a lesson and was guided by the scriptures
Now I can see through it and no longer feel trapped
The following year, Zhang Guorong sang thirty-three concerts in a row and announced his retirement from the music scene.
At the 1989 "Farewell Concert" he sang his last song on the stage, "When the Wind Rises Again."
Zhang Guorong faced the fans in the audience and said something like this: "I have suffered in the music world, but I have always gained more than I have lost."
I asked myself, in these 13 years, everything I have done, I am also ashamed, and I have come and gone, and this time it can be said that I have said goodbye freely.
However, I also have so many friends every night, and I am always a little unbearable. Shall I go outside and break in? Even if I am in a mess, I must make a name for myself! Thank you, thank you! ”
Tan Yonglin put down his acting and ran to the music scene, and Zhang Guorong left the music world and plunged into the film world.
The "Tan Zhang Struggle" is completely over.
In 1990, Cheung Kwok Wing took over the film "The Biography of Ah Fei", which is considered to be Cheung's autobiography, which made him the Best Actor Award at the 10th Hong Kong Film Awards.
In 1993, Zhang Guorong filmed "Farewell to the Overlord".
The film won the Palme d'Or at the 46th Cannes International Film Festival, the first Chinese film to receive this award.
After that, Zhang Guorong took over many classic films such as "Wind moon", "East Evil and West Poison", "Spring Light Leak" and so on.
His achievements were almost unbeatable in Hong Kong at the time.
For the rest of the 1990s, Tam's timbre declined in purity, and he changed his singing style.
The thick emotions of "Who Determines Wrong and Right", "A Song and a Story", "Can't Tell Goodbye" and "Return My True Feelings" explain a man's growth vividly.
Both of these superstars radiate a huge light in their own fields.
The so-called hegemony was not what they thought, they were originally friends who worked together, but in the end, even hugging became a luxury.
They are all shapers of the heyday of Hong Kong's music scene, and they are also victims.
Later one of them went to heaven, and the other kept the time.
At the brother's memorial service, Tan Yonglin insisted on singing "The Wind Continues to Blow" with him "across time and space" to bid the most affectionate farewell to friends and "opponents".
There are no more such grand times, and there are very few singers like them who "sacrifice the small self and become the big me in the music world".
"Silence is Golden" wrote: Young people, free to be people, continue to walk, free to be people.
This sentence was also used by Li Jian in the theme of the first performance: "Young people, free to be people".
This may also be the meaning left by the classics.