Autumn winds are blowing down withered leaves, and Zang Tianshuo died of liver cancer at the age of 54.
The young 95-year-olds may know little about him, but the song "Friends" is definitely the youth of the 80-year-olds, "Do you ever remember me, if you have a new shore, please leave me", they can hum a couple of lines.
Beyond rock and roll, Zang Tianshuo also has a label "big brother". The name "Big Brother" is not only a term of endearment, it is also a term of endearment like "The Three Brothers of the Peach Orchard," which is a term of endearment for the brothers. Especially in the patriarchal Chinese society has not yet faded, "big brother" in addition to moral justice, but also will be the directive of the person who issued the dispute regulator, the circle of people will sell big brother a face.
Brothers in distress, send charcoal in the snow, Zang Tianshuo befriended Ge You, Li Qi and a group of friends, even after his release from prison, there are many exchanges; big brother in distress, but do not want to worry about the brothers, found out that he suffers from liver cancer, he refused to visit his friends, hoping that friends will have a new "other side", he will forget about it.
Some people are looking for him and others are spurning him. His talent, his loyalty, his friendship with gangsters, his imprisonment, a pile, a piece of achievement in the memory of Zang Tianshuo.
"Rock" Zang Tianshuo
The spring winds of reform blew all over the land, blowing in not only the hot pursuit of money, but also the years of passion and poetry. After the suppressed 60s and 70s, the creative desire of the nation exploded, and it was a golden age of poetry, music, dance and other arts, a rare time of no confinement and vigorous individuality.
While born in a working-class family, Zang Tianshuo began to learn piano at the age of 6. He officially started his "rock life" at the age of 20, joining the band "The Undefeated Wengs", and his debut "Prayer of the Heart", in which he sang the heartbreaking story of his love for his wife and children, and how he was not able to accompany him to the end of the world, and how he would take away my ballads.
In 1987, the solo album "Into the Forbidden Zone" was released, when Cui Jian's "Rock on the Long March" was still in production, which may have actually been the first mainland rock album.
The album's cover Zang Tianshuo in a black suit, with a regular inch hair, no smile cool turn outside the cover, now seems to be not a little rock. But the strong rhythmic feel of the rough and muddy jazz piano, funk bass and drums on it was highly pioneering at the time.
The album "My Decade" was released in 1995 and became one of the best-selling albums of '96, with sales exceeding 150,000 copies, and its lead single "Friend" was No. 1 on the Beijing Music Channel charts for eight consecutive weeks. Just as rock exalts the truth of people and gives vent to sincere emotions through music, Zang Tianshuo has a childlike view of friendship, "exchanging heart for heart, and love for love".
"Big Brother" Zang Tianshuo
"It's easy to add flowers to the brocade, but hard to send charcoal to the snow", friends are always because of the **** the same hobby or interests and friendship, so less blood relations are mandatory, when faced with difficulties, it always seems less solid. Friends may be able to share the same sweet, but not **** bitter. Once it becomes a friendship that can **** bitter, it may be able to go higher than an ordinary friend and become a lifelong friend.
Xu Wei was severely depressed because his music was unappreciated, and during his time in Beijing, few friends came to see him, and his work and rest were extremely disorganized, so much so that he always needed a companion to get through the day. As a result, he and his wife returned to Xi'an to recover.
With his wife's anxiety understandable, the doctor gave them a piece of advice -- more contact with friends, more chat, think of other things, the symptoms will be much better. As a result, the so-called friends of the phone call around, friends always have something as an excuse for all kinds of excuses, or outright refused.
Only Zang Tianshuo came, he also pulled a carload of musical instruments for his good friend, chatting with him, wanting to use music to enlighten Xu Wei, which made Xu Wei cheer up, pick up the guitar, and become a cheerful Xu Wei.
Dou Wei because of entertainment gossip fire burning famous paparazzi Zhuo Wei car thing, I believe that no one knows no one knows, this kind of intentional destruction of other people's property, and even jeopardize the public **** safety, must also be to get the law sanctions. But in the end, Dou Wei was not sentenced to severe, it is also said that Zang Tianshuo use their own contacts to help Dou Wei operation, only to achieve the purpose of reducing the sentence.
Besides Xu Wei and Dou Wei, Zang Tianshuo has helped a lot of people, as long as he has had a friendship with people are willing to honor him as a "big brother".
Zang Tianshuo himself after the disease, may be the need to recuperate, but also may be he did not want to be the snow in the people, he did not want friends to visit him. But at his funeral, Cui Jian, Ge You, Yin Xiangjie, Li Qi and others were there, and Dou Wei even wrote a song to send off his old friend.
"Mob" Zang Tianshuo
Entertainment is always inextricably linked to the "underworld", and those who rely on beauty and talent to gain a foothold in the materialistic society will always have to cling to the big trees or become big trees themselves. They have seen more, always easier to be tempted, in a flash, may cross the line between black and white, but to say that they are really bad, but also not so.
After becoming famous for "Friends," Zang Tianshuo opened his first "Friends Disco" in Beijing in 1999. During that time, he met Lv Changchun, a northeasterner who worked as a watchdog for the bar.
In 2002, when Langfang's Fourth Street opened, they invited Zang to be their spokesman. Zang Tianshuo then took a fancy to a small three-story building where he wanted to have the biggest bar in Langfang. The inviting party gave him the building for next to nothing. As a result, he and his "friend" Sun Baohe opened a bar here.
The two "newlywed honey couple" period, the bar opened very well, but gradually Zang Tianshuo felt that the two men's experience of the concept does not match, Sun Baohe left the friend of the bar.
Sun Bao and his own in the train station opened a larger bar and Zang Tianshuo fight, and then because of the previous funds, the two again dispute, and finally agreed to the square fire fight. And at that time, the general manager of the friend of the bar is Lv Changchun, things became out of hand.
June 21, 2003 more than 1:00 am, the train station square stood two pairs of people, bare-chested, hand-carrying machete, steel pipe, the scene was once chaotic, ten minutes later, the square on the more than a dozen people lying down on the ground, 1 person dead and 2 people slightly injured. Zang Tianshuo also had a prison life as a result.
After his release from prison, Zang Tianshuo began to practice Buddhism, and during the period when he was suffering from cancer -- the last days of his life -- he was even more reluctant to visit his friends. His words became fewer and fewer, and he was reluctant to socialize much, except that in his spare time, he might look back on this life and lament, "Success is also a friend, failure is also a friend."
But the good thing is that "in the spring wind and summer rain", he helped his friends for a long time, so that he was still surrounded by friends in times of crisis.
This is the kind of man who makes new friends even in prison, even collaborating on a new song with the guards, and the kind of man who has friends who stay by his side even after his release, even publicly congratulating him on his return.
He refused his friends' visits late in life, wishing only to bring himself to them, but not wanting his friends who were moving forward to be sad and stagnant because of him. He is still remembered by his friend in death and missed at times.