I'm a migrant worker
Straight head through the street is bad stomach
Pick up a little less to the end of the month to drive (pass the ghost)
It is true that it is seriously hysteresis
Following the release of the title song of Xu Guanjie's first solo album, the original Chinese-style "Double Star Love Song" did not live up to people's expectations and won the preferences of countless citizens as soon as it appeared. Then launched to touch countless Hong Kong people, there is a Hong Kong song known as "Tower Lingyun" is also Hui Guanjie's first Cantonese pop song, is the first to create a precedent, using Cantonese to sing pop songs, since then began another new chapter in the Hong Kong music scene, Cantonese songs have been re-examined, tearing off the label of "vulgar little songs". Becoming a iconic era song representing Hong Kong culture, under the influence of Asam, the Hong Kong music scene began to enter the prelude to the era of Cantonese song popularity.
Then to today's promotion of this emotional masterpiece "Half a Pound Eight Two". In December 1976, the Cantonese album "Half a Pound Eight Two" not only won the Golden Disc Centennial Award, but also sold 350,000 copies in Southeast Asia, and the appearance of this album also marked the official formation of the Market for Cantonese pop songs in Hong Kong. Since then, Cantonese songs have swept the entire Chinese circle, and Hui Guanjie has become the first generation of "song gods" in Hong Kong.
Half a pound eight two stills
"Half a Pound Eight Two" is the theme song composed by Hui Guanjie for the Xu brothers to participate in the film of the same name "Half Pound Eight Two", the song sang the heartache of the working people in Hong Kong at that time, and it was sung endlessly. And the album record of this film of the same name, the degree of hot sales is even more so that the record store is called "half a pound eight two, sold to grab". This golden song is simply the best portrayal of the general public of Hong Kong, and describes the hard work, earning money, life and mentality of migrant workers. It also expressed the feelings of Hong Kong people at that time who were eager to get rich and eager to get ahead.
In addition, Hui Guanjie not only made great achievements in music, but also in the film he is also irreplaceable, the Hui brothers have broken the historical box office record in Hong Kong 5 times, won the annual box office championship in Hong Kong 8 times, this data is almost the same as the "king of the box office" Stephen Chow. In 1974 and 1975, respectively, it won the first place in the annual box office for two consecutive years with "Ghost Horse Double Star" and "Genius and Idiot". In 1976, the four brothers of "Wenwu Yingjie" jointly won 8.53 million at the box office with the unstoppable momentum of "Half a Pound, Eight Two", and the subsequent films such as "Deed of Sale", "Modern Bodyguard" and "Best Partner" launched every year were well sold at the box office.
New start album
Self-contained, elegant and popular appreciation. Xu Guanjie once said: In fact, Cantonese colloquialisms have a lot of uses, and I admit that some lyrics seem to be too clichéd, but if they are not sung naturally, the crepe is not unusual. Not only did he incorporate a large number of Cantonese sayings, he looked at life and suffering from the perspective of the general public, and wrote many songs full of philosophy, humor and feelings. He even said: My songs have their own set of philosophies, that is, optimism, liveliness, humor, encouraging people to be diligent and fruitful.
At the same time, just like another inspirational song "Genius Idiot Dream" sung on the street, everyone's opinion on one thing is different, and the philosophy in this song is the same, just like some of the comments at the bottom of it, equally wonderful, but the wisdom is very different: "A genius in one field is also an idiot in another field." ”
It is rumored that the first to praise Xu Guanjie as a god of song is Tan Yonglin, another emperor superstar in the music world, who is known as the principal. Flipping through many relevant materials on the Internet, the principal's admiration and love for Xu Guanjie is far beyond our imagination. He even fantasized that he was a female fan and eventually followed him as an idol. Also idolizing Xu Guanjie is Mei Yanfang, whose worship of the god of song is not inferior to that of the principal. And the relationship between the elder brother Zhang Guorong and Xu Guanjie is also very good, when Tan Zhang's struggle for hegemony was the most intense, Xu Guanjie wrote a very philosophical "Silence is Golden" for Zhang Guorong, but in fact, the principal and his brother's private relationship is also very good.
The lyrics of the music are not only about singing love and hate, sadness and sorrow, but also about the combination of the times and people, singing the deep voice of the general public. It is precisely because it echoes the voice of the public that the song has more resonance and appeal, and can cross the long river of time and spread endlessly!
From the pioneering of Hong Kong Cantonese songs in 1971 to the rapids of 1992, The glory continued to 1997, which lasted for more than 20 years, during which countless classic songs emerged, and the impact was so far-reaching that no one in the Hong Kong music scene could match.
The times create musical heroes, and heroes also change the musical situation; this sentence cannot be used in Xu Guanjie.