"Glory Days" is a song sung by the Hong Kong rock band Beyond. Wong Ka-kui composed the music and wrote the lyrics for the Cantonese version of the song, while the Mandarin version was written by Ho Kai-hong and Zhou Zhiping.
The Cantonese and Mandarin versions of the song were included in Beyond's Cantonese album "Destiny Party" released in September 1990 and Mandarin album "Glory Days" released in April 1991. This song is a work composed by Huang Jiaju for the South African black leader Nelson Mandela.
In 1990, the song won the Top Ten Golden Melody Award at the Top Ten Golden Melody Awards Ceremony.
In 1990, Beyond traveled to Kenya and witnessed first-hand the suffering of the African people due to war and famine. After returning to Hong Kong, China, Beyond lead singer Huang Jiakui read the story of Mandela being imprisoned in the newspaper, and he felt an inner cry from it. Wong Ka-Kui believes that Mandela's spiritual connotation is about struggle and hope, which coincides with Beyond's hard-working background in Hong Kong, so Wong Ka-Kui composed the song "Glory Days". :
The lyrics of this song are inspirational and the melody is easy to popular. When listening to "Glory Days", a cry from a rebellious youth to a torch of freedom makes people involuntarily sigh. It is a kind of shock from the soul, making people in adversity seem to see a glimmer of hope. Makes people become stronger involuntarily?
"Glory Days" is a touching work written by Huang Jiaju for the South African black leader Nelson Mandela. After Mandela's death, this song became even more precious. "The Glorious Years" not only condenses the ups and downs of Mandela's life, but also expresses the freedom and equality that Mandela hopes to achieve
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