In 1999, " Hong Kong and Macao Compatriots Returning Homeland Certificate " was stopped, and the "Hong Kong and Macao Residents' Pass to the Mainland" was officially launched.
In 1999, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Office in Beijing was established.
In 1999, the president of the Hong Kong Sports Association and Olympic Committee of China Ho Zhenting announced that the Hong Kong Association decided to start bidding for the 2006 Asian Games.
In 1999, the strong tropical storm "Jinwen" landed in Hong Kong.
In 1999, the largest museum in Hong Kong - Hong Kong Cultural Museum , and the largest library in Hong Kong - Hong Kong Central Library , held an inauguration ceremony at the same time.
In 1999, Dawn announced that it would withdraw from any awards ceremony.
In 1999, Jackie Chan was exposed as the "Little Dragon Girl Incident".
1999, Fai Wong Dou Wei’s marriage change.
In 1999, the TV series " Asian TV " introduced by " Asian TV " defeated its old rival "Wireless TV" and set a new ratings record in Hong Kong.
In 1999, movies such as "Secret War", " Gun Fire ", "Honey King of Comedy ", "Heart Movement" and "Sweet Words" were released.
In 1999, the Kitty Cat case shocked Hong Kong.
In 1999, Hong Kong singer Leslie Cheung signed a contract with Universal Music. This is also the third time he has entered the "Universal Music" family after joining "Polykin Records" in 1978 and " Xinyibao Records " in 1987. It is both a new contract and a return.
In 1999, Leslie Cheung released his first album after joining "Universal Music".
1999, Leslie Cheung on the last day of the 20th century - "Countdown with You".
In fact, as a fan who entered the trap from the "Huaxing Records" or "Xinyibao Records" period, he would use the voice and color of Leslie Cheung at his peak as a certain standard to evaluate his later works in the "Rolling Stone Records" and "Universal Music" periods.
However, using the record company as the division of Leslie Cheung's music career, we can see some clear changes in the music of his brother.
During the period of "Huaxing Records", he was a star who could sing; during the period of "Xinyibao Records", he was a superstar who was at ease with fast and slow songs in the recording studio and stage; the two periods of "Rolling Stone Records" and "Universal Music" can actually be merged into a period. Leslie Cheung in the music world still maintained the superstar style before "farewell to the music scene", but there were more me in the music, the fireworks of different colors.
Although Leslie Cheung was indeed becoming more and more hoarse in his voice, he was really becoming more and more self-centered in his expression.
This is also a change in singing because of the love of singing, and gradually singing the songs you want to sing for yourself.
As for the two albums during the "Polydo Records" period, in addition to the meaning of collection and commemoration, it is indeed not very important for Leslie Cheung's entire music career.
"Countdown with You" is a record released at the end of the century, and is also full of apocalypse. When I first heard this album, I personally had questions about my listening experience. That is, this is not like a complete record, and it seems more suitable to make two EP albums.
Among them, " Dream of Death and Drunk ", "Loneliness is Harmful", " People in the Men's Hall of the People ", "Countdown with You" and "Don't Love Him", are more like works of musical latitude and temperament, and are also works that are closer to the doomsday proposition of "Countdown with You".
Later I found out that my premonition was really correct, because in addition to the work "Don't Love Him" composed by Adrian Chan, "Dream and Drunk", "A Friends", "Countdown with You" and "Loneliness is Harmful", C.Y.KONG initially intentionally made a four-part song, and the numbers it brought on in the audition were C1, 2, 3, and 4.
Among them, in addition to "Lonely and Harmful" being composed by Leslie Cheung himself, "Dream and Drunken Life", "Among the Friends" and "Countdown to You" are all composed and arranged by C.Y.KONG. When he handed over the demo, he also specially made some echoes of the three works.
And "The People of the Communist Party" was also a work of C.Y.KONG when she was a student. Later, when she was making the album "Countdown with You", she pre-processed this melody. At the same time, when this work was first recorded, there was a overlapping process of two human voice tracks, and there was a slight delay effect, but later, it was gone for some reason when mixing.
Similarly, when the work "Loneliness is Harmful", the treble track was not opened, and the final product also lost the treble part of the treble voice. Although the songs "
" and " left and right hands ", "spring, summer, autumn and winter", " heartbeat, breathing normally ", and "little star", are still full of brother flavor because of Leslie Cheung's voice and interpretation, from a musical perspective, they are still mainstream Hong Kong music.
"Left and Right Hands" is actually the first song officially collected after the album "Countdown with You". According to Tang Yicong's recollection, the original arrangement version was very simple, with the piano as the main line. Later, it was changed to electric piano plus sound effects. In the later context of the album "Countdown with You", it can be regarded as the four-part, which has a little response to the atmosphere of the end of the world.
But "Left and Right Hands" is essentially a symbol of the Paitai song, which also includes the song "Heart Beat and Breathing Normal" which was later circulated with a natural golden song. My personal favorite in this part is "Spring, Summer, Autumn, Autumn and Winter", a work that even has a folk song temperament. The sentence "Autumn should be very good, if you are still present" is probably never expected when Leslie Cheung sings, and it will become a term used by countless fans to commemorate him.
However, according to the memories of Liang Rongjun , one of the later album producers, in the process of making the commemorative record of "REVISIT", when he was interviewed by Huang Zhicong, it turned out that "Pillow" was also planned to be placed in the album "Countdown with You", but because Tang Yicong missed the number of the song in the demo, the song "Pillow" can only be included in the EP "Unititled" a year later.
"Actually count down with you, it's good to live and die, you can't find a country of eternal life, it's better to embrace it." Today, twenty-three years after this album was released, my brother and Gary have left the stage. Many things have happened in the world, and the numbers on the countdown card are getting smaller and smaller, "Maybe life and death are also a dream, and I don't need to understand it."
