Some time ago, a video from more than 30 years ago was released in a show.
Tan Yonglin, Mui Yanfang, Andy Lau, Maggie Cheung, Chen Baixiang and others gathered together to chat and laugh, and finally sang a song "Friends".
They are vivid and young in the video, and they instantly pull people back to the star-studded 80s in the Hong Kong circle.
And when Tan Yonglin, who is now 71 years old, saw this clip again, he did not hold back several chokes.
Who would have thought that he was 71 years old?
Although his face is still young, time has passed, and everything has long been wrong.
Zhang Guorong, who had occupied half of the music scene with him and "fought" him, jumped down and bid farewell to the world early; Mei Yanfang, a close friend in the circle, also died of cancer and left for 17 years with regret.
The friends who sang with him, took the stage together to receive awards, and created music legends together, one by one, all left.
The era belonging to hong Kong's entertainment industry has come to an end, and the 51-year-old king of the music scene has long faded.
Nowadays, when it comes to him, many people summarize his entire life with a sentence of "scumbag ancestor", and it is even more infinitely lamentable...
The 1980s and 1990s were the most prestigious golden age of the Chinese music scene.
And no matter how you go around this period, it is difficult to get around the name "Tan Yonglin".
Because he loved music, at the age of 18, he formed a band with like-minded brothers Chen You, Peng Jianxin, Ye Zhiqiang, Chen Baixiang and others, and accidentally participated in a music competition to win the championship.
But three years later, the band had to disband because everyone had a different life plan.
Tam also followed his parents' advice and was admitted to Ngee Ann Polytechnic in Singapore to study economics, but his dream about music has always been buried in his heart, and he ran back to Hong Kong before finishing college.
At that time, he worked as a postman during the day, dragging sacks full of letters through the streets, tired and paid less, and at night he would stop singing in bars and continue his musical dreams.
He could only rest for about two or three hours a day, but he was willing to eat it.
In 1973, several friends who had played music together got together again, and they were obsessed with music, and they rebuilt the band as soon as they hit it off, named Wenna Band, and later Zhong Zhentao also joined it.
Unexpectedly, "Wenna Five Tigers" became a hit and was signed by Baodori Records, and has since become popular in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia.
After 5 years of popularity, the development of the band and the individual was stuck in a bottleneck, and they decided to disband and fly solo.
Usually, solo flying is difficult to escape the law of the red but the group, but Tan Yonglin seems to be the accident.
In 1979, the 28-year-old Tam Wing Lin won the Gold Record Award for his first solo album "Anti-Fighting Star", the second year the Cantonese album "Love You Crazy" won the Platinum Sales Award, and the third year's album "Can't Forget You" won four platinum results, quickly becoming a first-line singer in the Hong Kong music scene.
Since then, he has been even more out of control, and he has won the prize and won the soft hand.
He has won the Most Popular Male Singer Award at the Top Ten Golden Melody Awards for three consecutive years, sold more than 10 million records, and opened 38 concerts in the Red Pavilion, creating many miracles and making a mess.
At the same time, he also made a lot of acclaimed and popular movies, and the movie "If I Am True" won him the 18th Golden Horse Award for Best Actor.
He became the first Hong Kong male singer to win the Golden Horse Award.
At that time, looking at the entire Hong Kong entertainment industry, almost no one could compete with him, he was a well-deserved superstar in the music world, dominating the music scene.
In 1983, Zhang Guorong, who had survived for nearly 10 years, became popular with a song "The Wind Continues to Blow".
After that, Zhang Guorong quickly caught up and became the only opponent who could compete with Tan Yonglin.
The two opened the era of "Tan Zhang Contending" in the Hong Kong music scene, each accounting for half of the music scene.
It is also for this reason that the media often compares them together and pulls each other on, resulting in fans on both sides being in constant opposition, often insulting each other under the awards ceremony stage, making the entire music scene environment miasma.
Troubled tam wing lin finally announced in 1988:
No longer participate in competition-based music programs, nor do they receive awards of a competitive nature.
This decision caused quite a stir.
At the age of 38, he has long since stopped valuing these honors: "These awards may be more important for some newcomers." ”
A year later, Zhang Guorong could not bear the insults of fans in the media and announced his withdrawal from the music scene to shoot dramas.
Although in the mouth of the media, the two are in a competitive relationship, fans on both sides have always been a "hostile" posture.
But Tan Yonglin and Zhang Guorong's private relationship is actually very good.
However, the two retreated, did give newcomers a chance, and the Hong Kong music scene has been full of flowers since then, pushing the Hong Kong pop music scene to its heyday.
Although Tam Wing Lin withdrew from the music competition and no longer participated in the award competition, he was still singing, and he also brought up many young people in the music industry, becoming "Principal Tam", witnessing the ups and downs of the Hong Kong music scene.
Later, Zhang Guorong and Mei Yanfang passed away one after another.
At the concert, he once sang a song "Can't Say Goodbye" and cried to tears.
Can't Say Goodbye Music: Tam Wing Lin - Tam Wing Lin 94 Pure Golden Song Concert
The old friends who sang and played music together stopped in time, but he still chose to continue singing.
Although there is no market for singers of his generation today, he has always maintained an active record every year.
Music has become his way of communicating with the world, and even at the age of 70, he still tries his best on stage.
In 2019, he was performing on the stage when he suddenly encountered heavy rain, but he did not stop, but soaked wet in the rain and sang the whole scene.
This may be the respect of the older generation of artists for the stage.
Some people also questioned: Why bother, at such an old age, is there such a lack of money?
He said he wanted to sing until he was 80 years old.
Looking back on his life, he has never been ashamed of music.
In addition to still appearing in variety shows and commercial performances at such an old age, Tan Yonglin's feelings have also been criticized.
His marriage shocked the entire Hong Kong entertainment industry in the 1990s.
In 1974, at the age of 24, Tan Yonglin met Yang Jiewei, a young man who was struggling for a musical ideal and a beauty consultant for a cosmetics company.
The two people fell in love with each other and came together.
Yang Jiewei loved deeply, and even quit her job for Tan Yonglin to learn stage design and artist packaging, and became the woman behind him.
It can be said that Tan Yonglin's achievements in her career are indispensable to Yang Jiewei.
In 1981, the two people who were very affectionate registered to get married, but because of Tan Yonglin's career, they did not announce it to the public, or even hold a grand wedding.
Later, he became so hot that his feelings became unspeakable taboos.
For a woman, how important is the name, and the wedding is how many women yearn for a lifetime, but for love, Yang Jiewei has given up.
Unfortunately, her sacrifice did not get the reward it deserved.
In 1993, Yang Jiewei's father died, Tan Yonglin attended the funeral as a son-in-law, and this marriage that had been hidden for 12 years was finally exposed, and public opinion was in an uproar, bringing Tan Yonglin a lot of infamy.
For Yang Jiewei, she finally did not have to hide and hide, and she could face everyone as a wife.
Unfortunately, not long after this marriage was exposed, the Hong Kong media broke out that Tan Yonglin had an extramarital affair with a girl named Zhu Yongting.
It turned out that as early as 1991, the two had known each other.
Zhu Yongting is the president of his fan support association and often comes to his concerts.
That year, Zhu Yongting was 19 years old, Tan Yonglin was 41 years old, Xu was attracted to young and beautiful girls, the two left contact information and began to meet frequently, and later gave birth to a son.
Yang Jiewei has been kept in the dark until the media broke the news.
There were many rumors at the time:
It is said that the two agreed on a good Dink, and Yang Jiewei was unable to have children due to multiple miscarriages; it is also said that Tan Yonglin, as an only son, had an extramarital affair because of the pressure of succession, in order to leave a legacy for the family;
Regardless of the truth, this is undoubtedly a huge harm to Yang Jiewei.
After caring for her husband for many years, she now has children for him, but she has become another woman with him.
Later, she was even rumored to have escaped into the empty door and cut her hair into a nun.
Circling between two women, entangled for most of his life, for this relationship, Tan Yonglin also regrets very much:
There are two wives who are not good, let them suffer a lot of grievances, I hope that everyone will not learn from me.
Nowadays, Tan Yonglin has become a superstar who can only make money in commercial performances in many people, and he is also the "scumbag ancestor" of many people.
His achievements in the music world are unmatched, but emotionally he cannot escape the infamy of "scumbags".
But the emotional interests between people are complex, and no one is black and white.
If time could be turned back, Tan said he most wanted to go back to 1985.
I think it was because that year, he had a brilliant career, friends in hand, and the people he loved the most were by his side.
Since then, it has been difficult to have such a situation.
Light up [praise], may everyone have a life without regrets.