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Luo Dayou is the recognized godfather of the entire Chinese music scene, and Li Zongsheng and Xiao Worm, who came from the Rolling Stones with him, are millions of gold medal producers, and the albums released are sold out, but they are still condescending in front of Luo Dayou.
Luo Dayou is compassionate, Li Zongsheng is open-minded and vicissitudes, and the worms are exquisitely entangled. As the number one of the rolling Stones' three godfathers, he is always intrinsically distinguished from popular music. Li Zongsheng respectfully respected him as the eldest brother, and the little worm also lamented his grand pattern.
The singer who opened the door of the times and the creator who gave the soul of Chinese music, the sense of responsibility to society, the profound insight and the ultimate humanistic care revealed between the lines are enough to support his "monumental" godfather title.
Luo Dayou has written many classics for many singers, and has achieved an indelible mark of the times. "Childhood" weaves the most carefree time of the Chinese people, "Pearl of the Orient" is a word to cover Hong Kong, "Proverbs of Love" depicts an eternal melody, "Dreamer" mourns Sanmao, and "Rolling Red Dust" sends a message to Zhang Ailing
Zhang Aijia,"Childhood", "The Story of Time" Pan Yueyun ,"Wild Lilies Also Have Spring" Guan Zhengjie, Zhen Ni, "Pearl of the Orient" Teresa Teresa's Proverbs of Love Liu Wenzheng "Shining Days" Su Rui "If the wine is dry and sells nothing", "The same moonlight" Zhen Ni "Flowers on the Sea" Mei Yanfang, "It seems that the old man came" Chen Shuhua "Rolling Red Dust" Feng Feifei "Dream Chaser"
But there is a song that is more special, Luo Dayou has poured his heart into it, but it also made him heartbroken, and even made up his mind to leave Taiwan, where he was raised, to bid farewell to the music scene and go to the United States. He did not return until after Taiwan "lifted the strictest.".
This song is well known to all of us as "Tomorrow Will Be Better", which gathered the best singers and the largest group of stars in Taiwan at that time, and it is also the most influential public welfare song in the Chinese music scene so far.
In 1985, China celebrated the 40th anniversary of its recovery of Taiwan. People in Taiwan's music industry wanted to take this as an opportunity to create an inspiring song with the theme of "echoing world peace and commemorating the restoration of Taiwan".
The song follows Michael Jackson's star-studded charity song "We Are the World" to help the Ethiopian famine, thus setting the tone for a public service song.
Zhang Aijia, who has strong ability, good popularity and wide road, was elected as the convener of this song, responsible for coordinating the one-stop matters from creation, production, and then to gathering stars to sing.
Zhang Aijia was jokingly called Taiwan's "godmother" by Huang Xia. Surrounded by her were a group of "godfather" café figures, Yang Dechang, Hou Xiaoxian, and Li An discussed the film with her, Luo Dayou and Li Zongsheng wrote songs for her, and Rene Liu and Li Xinjie were her disciples.
Zhang Aijia holds two golden statues and two golden horses, and only the younger Maggie Cheung can beat her among Chinese actresses; she is the first singer of supreme golden songs such as "Childhood", "The Price of Love" and "The Story of Time".
Zhang Aijia, the convener, is also very competent, she hired Luo Dayou to compose lyrics, because in the theme of family and country feelings and humanistic care, no one has been able to stand out so far. She commissioned Li Shouquan as the producer of the song, Li Shouquan was the premier music producer of that era, and also discovered singers Such as Wang Jie and Wang Lihong.
At that time, Luo Dayou had already launched his inspiring "Zhi Hu Ye" and "The Master of the Future" to establish his position in the music world. After he experienced many ups and downs, the debut album "Zhi Hu Also" also has a great relationship with Zhang Aijia, and it can even be said that Zhang Aijia guided him into this circle.
At the end of the 1970s, Zhang Aijia and Liu Wenzheng starred in the movie "Shining Days", and Luo Dayou was introduced to participate in music creation, and the two were related to this. After Zhang Aijia signed a record with Rolling Stones, Luo Dayou took out 6 works at the bottom of the box to support her, including "Childhood" and "The Story of Time".
Luo Dayou's debut creative album "Zhi Hu Ye" was blocked, and no record company was willing to act as an agent to release this record that would not sell for money. Zhang Aijia lobbied everywhere and even ran to Huang Xia, the godfather of Hong Kong music, to solicit a sponsorship. In the end, he successfully persuaded Rolling Stone Records to release it on his behalf, and Rolling Stone began to do so.
When Luo Dayou released his second album "Future Master", the whole album was full of depression and desolation, and specially wrote a "Little Sister" for Zhang Aijia to include, full of warmth and pampering.
When Zhang Aijia Zhang Luo "echoed world peace and commemorated the restoration of Taiwan" to present the song, finding Luo Dayou to write a song was also a matter of course, and Luo Dayou was naturally obligated. He painstakingly wrote "Tomorrow Will Be Better", but after handing it in, the team behind the scenes agreed that the tone of the critical wind was too gray.
Under the leadership of producer Li Shouquan, a group of people worked together to change it to a popular version that now sounds bright and brisk and vibrant. Involved in the revision of the lyrics were Zhang Dachun, Xu Naisheng, Li Shouquan, Qiu Fusheng, Zhan Hongzhi, and the arrangement was completed by Chen Zhiyuan.
Luo Dayou's original lyrics have long been lost and there is no evidence, but according to the recollection of producer Li Shouquan, only a few words in the lyrics, we can still glimpse how gray Luo Dayou's criticism really is. There is a line in the lyrics we hear now
"Who can bear to look at the sorrows of yesterday? Take away our smiles."
In the original sentence of Luo Dayou's lyrics, "yesterday's sorrow" turned out to be "yesterday's clown", and similar words abounded. For the lyrics to be changed, Luo Dayou only said that the song after the revision was too sensational, and without the "sense of responsibility" he emphasized, he did not pursue it.
"Tomorrow Will Be Better" gathered more than 60 popular Singers from Taiwan to sing together, becoming an unprecedented initiative in the Chinese music scene. Coupled with its public welfare positioning, beautiful melody, positive lyric content, expressing people's good wishes for peace and looking forward to a better tomorrow, it is still the most classic public welfare song of the stars.
The distribution rights of this song were finally bid by Blue & White Records at a high price, and all the 6 million yuan raised was donated to the Consumer Cultural and Educational Foundation, and the hong Kong distribution proceeds were donated to the children's choir, which is closely related to "Tomorrow".
In the end, this song, which was originally used as a public welfare, inevitably had a relationship with "politics", which is why the godfather Luo Dayou was resentful and dissatisfied, and then left his hometown.
At the end of 1985, taiwan's general election, the kuomintang put forward the slogan of "to have a better tomorrow", and "Tomorrow will be better" was used as the theme song of the campaign. Unknown people and friends began to criticize Luo Dayou for writing songs for politics, and the aggrieved Luo Dayou believed that he had been "used politically", and in a fit of anger, he cut off ties with the Taiwanese music scene and flew to the United States.
Regarding the beginning and end of "Tomorrow Will Be Better", Luo Dayou spoke specifically in the days that followed, he said
Art should be a very simple idea and should not have anything to do with politics. I never thought the songs I wrote were political songs. Writing songs should be natural and humane! Of all the songs I've ever written, I hate this one the most! When writing songs, I just wanted to express a yearning for tomorrow, but it turned out to be a tool used by politics, would you still like it?
Because of political factors, "Tomorrow Will Be Better" made Luo Dayou resentful, but it is undeniable that this is a classic and timeless work. "Youth does not understand the red dust, rouge is stained with ash", 30 years later, the world is still lonely and turning, but we are still hoping that tomorrow will be better.