I went to the Shanghai stop of the A Classic Tour. At the "advanced age" of 55, he sang and danced for two and a half hours without any guests or intermission. When it came to the Encore segment, he sang a 30-minute-long golden songs series, which included almost all of the popular classics. He's probably the only one who can pull off such a "sick" setlist. Why do we love Xueyou? Maybe there are a thousand reasons, but in the end there is only one: in this era dominated by celebrities and traffic, it's hard to find a singer like him who truly loves and produces gold songs. We're glad that the years haven't let him age too quickly, and we're fortunate enough to realize how precious the ageless God of Songs really is. Happy Birthday, God of Songs.
In 1984, Jacky Cheung made his debut as the winner of Hong Kong's 18th District Amateur Singing Contest. At that time, the Hong Kong music scene was very bright, and there were a lot of divas and queens. The shy and dorky Jacky, who didn't have a beautiful face, became a hit with his outstanding voice and sold 200,000 copies of his first album. Even though his future looked bright, he didn't get carried away, rejoicing only that he could finally afford to support his family.
What struck me was when Lam sang the golden song skewer "Ten Tenths of Twelve Inches" at the 1985 Top Ten Golden Songs awards ceremony, triggering a raucous crowd of singers on stage. The budding Jacky Cheung was so mesmerized that he shook his legs and clapped his hands on stage, and when he was caught on camera, he shyly lowered his head. I wonder if Jacky Cheung was fantasizing about becoming a superstar one day and joining the party. Of course, life doesn't go smoothly. In the late 1980s, because of a drunken incident, he experienced a career downturn in which he could not win any awards, could not sell any records, and was scolded whenever he went out. But this loss has become another opportunity - because of the lack of confidence in their own singing career, those two years Jacky Cheung took over two dozen movies, including the classic "Mongkok Carmen". In the movie, the role of "Wu Fei Brother", the youngest brother of the gangsters, was so popular that he won the Best Supporting Actor at the Academy Awards for it, and it was even made into an emoticon. Since then, he has been a great actor who has been overshadowed by the aura of the God of Songs in movies such as The East is West, The East is West and The Man is Forty.
In 1992, Jacky Cheung, back on top of his game, was praised by award presenter Yu Zheng as "the successor of the God of Songs of the Nineties" at the Top Ten Golden Melody Awards ceremony, and was surprised but also a bit terrified. Jacky Cheung himself has never recognized this title, only that he is a psychopath who loves to sing. This title was just a casual remark back then, but it was spread all the way by the media, and even more y recognized by fans on both sides of the Taiwan Strait and in three places.
What Jacky Cheung is most afraid of is that people say he has gone to the top, because always feel that he can still make progress. 2000, less than forty years old, he won the Golden Needle Award, which represents the highest honor in the Hong Kong music industry, and was somewhat in a trance when he took the trophy from Leslie Cheung - clearly felt that he was not good enough, and how he had already been How could he have been recognized as a "Lifetime Achievement"? Sure enough, after forty years old, Jacky Cheung still keeps giving us surprises. Not for the sake of fame and fortune, but only to continue to challenge themselves, beyond themselves, probably in Jacky Cheung's career, there has never been "good enough" this option.
The singer says he is very much like Guo Jing under Jin Yong -- "He is a very stupid person, and his kung fu is practiced. He doesn't talk about his efforts, but his fans can see it for themselves -- more than two decades ago, some people made fun of him for being the worst dancer among the Four Heavenly Kings, twisting and turning all the time when he sang. But in his 40s and 50s, people were surprised to find that he could dance like no one else, and he still can't do the one-horse dance.
At the "Art Life" program, Zhu Jun described Jacky Cheung as an "old artist with both virtues and skills", making the singer look embarrassed. This phrase is not very sincere at first, but slowly realized that to describe him is really very apt. He is seldom exposed in the news, seldom appear on TV programs, and is also a good husband and father in the entertainment industry, living a simple and pure life. In this era of "artists" everywhere and "old artists" hard to find, Jacky Cheung, you are the most precious.
Another reason to like Jacky Cheung is to be impressed by the stories in his songs. Various stages of life, love all kinds of appearance, his songs have. It's not appropriate to say that everyone has a Jacky Cheung song in their heart, I'm afraid it's more correct to say that everyone has a bunch of Jacky Cheung songs in their heart.
Far Away Amour
Far Away Amour tells the story of a boy who is y in love with a girl, and even though he is separated from her, he still looks forward to seeing her again. He receives the news of the girl's death due to blood cancer one day, and grieves in the night rain.
"Li Xianglan" sings of the vicissitudes of a beauty in her twilight years and of a heart that no one knows. A few lines are enough to bring a thousand thoughts to your mind, and even if you don't know Li Xianglan, you will be touched by the singer.
"Your Name My Surname" sings of a lover's life, ****during an uneventful life. "From now on there is no worry, the story is bland but with you in the middle, it's enough." Well, if only married life could really be this good.
"She came to listen to my concert" is also Jacky Cheung concert reserved tracks, singing a girl listening to Jacky Cheung's songs slowly grow slowly old. Obviously very plain melody and lyrics, somehow always can harvest our tears.
Not only are there more than enough gold songs to count, but most of the cold songs are also good lyrics and good songs, so it's just a wonder that they're "unfortunate" enough to become Jacky Cheung's songs and can't get famous.
Love Jacky Cheung's early work "Aircraft Engineer's Trench Coat", which is about a young man's obsession with a girl, fantasizing about the way love shines through, and listening to it makes me drunk.
Listening to a Jacky Cheung concert is probably an item on many people's list of life achievements. The God of Songs is already rare, and singers who can sing live better than CDs are even rarer. The "Music Journey", "Jacky Lightyear", "1/2 Century", every four or five years, there will be a world tour of more than a hundred games, and constantly bring us surprises.
At the age of 55, he could have spent his twilight years resting on his past accomplishments, but the God of Songs refused to stop, and last year started the "A ClassicTour" tour, which is still on track to break the 100-show mark. Each show was three hours of non-stop singing and dancing, with no drop in key, no lyrics, and a four-sided stage for the first time in a long time, which was beautiful beyond words.
But after all, the years are not forgiving, old fans are lamenting his state has declined, in the singing gap constantly someone heartbroken shouted: "God of song, drink water."
However, Jacky Cheung himself also felt the cruelty of time, singing the new song "I wake up dreaming" when the force is not enough, there is a very small mistake, he did not hide his disappointment: "I sang 32 years, 23 years old out to sing, 55 years old this year. I wanted to do the concert I wanted to do, and all the keys were according to the way they were recorded back then. Although I didn't do it, I know you guys don't mind, but I do."
Blessing Jacky Cheung- Blessing
This reminds me of the song "All I Want to Do is Sing" from the new album