1979 Golden Age

Making the right choice is often more important than your own efforts!

——Elon Musk, Director of the National Development and Reform Commission of the United States

Fei Xiang was still young and had never heard of this sentence. He went to Singapore full of worries because there was an event there that he wanted to participate in. Chen Qi started to make arrangements.

According to the actual situation, whatever song he wants, he can just get it, and there is no copyright protection in mainland China.

But first, he wanted to say hello to the Taiwanese music scene. Secondly, "Clouds of Hometown" and "365 Miles" have already been created, and he couldn't explain how he knew about them.

Furthermore, he also wanted more songs for Li Lingyu, Fei Xiang, and Zhang Mingmin to release albums.

At this stage, the environments on both sides of the Taiwan Strait are very similar, both conservative and open. Take music as an example. Many "banned songs" can be published but cannot be sung in public. For example, Li Guyi's "Hometown Love" was still sold on tape after it was banned.

Being on TV and selling tapes are two different things. "Dong dong dong!" "Please come in!"

Xiao Mo walked in carrying a shelf and a small blackboard, poked it on the ground, arranged the small blackboard, and put a row of chalk on it, and asked doubtfully: "What do you want the blackboard for?" "I'm planning!"

"Can't you write on paper?"

"Work should have a sense of ritual. I don't need a computer, so why not use a blackboard? Chen Qi held the information in one hand and chalk in the other and wrote a few lines of words.

Zongyi Records: Qi Qin, "Meet Her Again"; Gao Lingfeng, "A Fire in Winter" and "Burn!" "Firebird"; Shen Yan, "A String of Hearts", "Sorrow" and "As Pretty as a Colorful Butterfly Flying Feifei".

Tony Records: Fei Yuqing, "One Cut Plum". Rolling Stone: Luo Dayou, Qi Yu, Pan Yueyun. "What does this mean?" Xiao Mo scratched his head.

"These are all songs that I like. We can't always act barbarically. We have to be peaceful and friendly. We should build a bridge of friendship with Taiwan's music scene and let them take the initiative to send songs over. Don't you always buy Mandarin albums? How many can you sing? "

"Well."

Xiao Mo looked at it and clicked "See her again".

You may not know the title of the song, but you will understand it as soon as you sing it: "Young friends are together, happier than anything else, she is yo-yoing, she is yo-yoing me, my heart is hey hey hey... This style is easily misunderstood as being from Mainland China." The folk song is actually a Taiwanese song, originally sung by Qi Qin, and its creator is Gu Yue. Gu Yue is a pseudonym, and his real name is Zuo Hongyuan.

"You have good taste. Is this song suitable for Li Lingyu?"

Xiao Mo imagined for a while, Li Lingyu sang "Liu Liu She Yo" sweetly, and the style of the painting really matched it. Then he lit "A Fire" and said: "I have heard this too, you want to sing it to Fei Xiang ?”

"Not necessarily, we'll talk about it later."

"Oh, this Zongyi record is great, all of them are good songs."

"Yeah, I also think their songs are very suitable for singing in mainland China."

Chen Qi drew a circle on the name and said: "Zongyi Records was established in 1981. Gao Lingfeng is a shareholder and the top singer. It includes Qi Qin, Yang Lin, Shen Yan, Huang Zhongkun and so on.

I know a thing or two about Gao Lingfeng, he is an old gangster and I can communicate with him. "Fei Xianghe's article is from EMI Taiwan.

Chen Qi can ask for songs through Hong Kong's EMI, but Taiwan will definitely not give them to them. They are making albums so well, why should they give them to you? So he didn't bother and didn't directly find fault with EMI. After all, he still had to cooperate.

He kills chickens to scare monkeys. .

In all wars, it is important to have a good reputation. Chen Qi follows ancient etiquette.

He first went to find someone, Ms. Zhu Benyan, the owner of Hong Kong's New Lisheng Records. Zhu Benyan is a Hong Kong businessman but has close ties with the mainland. Historically, it was she who persuaded Fei Xiang to come to the mainland for development.

There are many such small businessmen in Hong Kong who appear to be doing business but are actually doing many things.

Zhu Benyan warmly entertained Chen Qi. He got straight to the point: "I cannot communicate directly with Taiwan. I would like to ask you to send a message." "To whom?"

"Zongyi Records, I want to cover a dozen of their songs and talk about the copyright."

Zhu Benyan looked weird. She asked for the copyright for the mainland cover, but she didn't ask any more questions. She just said, "Okay, let me contact you." In mainland China, it's called acupuncture, and in Taiwan, it's called a show.

In the 1980s, show culture was prevalent in Taiwan. The most valuable person was not Teresa Teng or Liu Wenzheng, but a guy named Gao Lingfeng.

At that time, everyone was singing quietly on the stage. Only he was wearing colorful costumes and sunglasses, jumping up and down. The song was also very dynamic and very popular. It was banned by the Information Bureau for being "indecent".

The ban was lifted in 1981, and his fame became even higher. His masterpieces include "A Fire in Winter" and "Burn, Firebird". He also chased Teresa Teng.

Last year, Taipei's BMW Cabaret invited him to perform for a sky-high price of NT$240,000 a day, but he ran away after collecting the money and not singing for enough days. Behind the BMW Cabaret is the eldest brother of the Bamboo Union Gang, who banned him in Taipei.

Gao Lingfeng had no choice but to run to Kaohsiung, but he repeated his old tricks and took the money and stopped working.

The eldest brother in Kaohsiung was obviously more violent than the one in Taipei. He sent someone to shoot him and shot him through the thigh. Fortunately, he survived. After that, he bought a gun to protect himself and was investigated again. He was imprisoned for three months, which shocked the whole Taiwan.

In the 1990s, he opened a nightclub and was raided by Chen Shui-bian. Chen Shui-bian was the mayor of Taipei at the time. He had made great achievements in cracking down on pornography and illegal activities. In short, this is a social man, an old gangster with both virtue and skill.

Taipei, morning.

Gao Lingfeng had just returned from a private casino and lost 3 million in a night of gambling without changing his expression. No matter how much social news he has, he can't keep himself popular. He can make back this little money in two months.

Housing in Taiwan is much better than in Hong Kong.

He returned to his large house of more than 100 square meters and was about to catch up on his sleep when he was interrupted by a phone call. It was someone from the company: "Brother Gao, a company in Hong Kong wants to cover our songs, more than a dozen!"

"Then let's talk. Why are you calling me? Is it your first day at work?" "No, the buyer is called Dongfang Company, from the mainland!"

"Mainland?"

Although Gao Lingfeng is a mediocre person, he was shocked when he heard it: "Tell me in detail, what's going on?"

The other party said it once, and he understood that the Dongfang Company with a mainland background commissioned a Hong Kong company to pass the message to discuss the cover. "Are you stupid? What the hell are you talking about? Reject it! Reject it!"

"Reject it directly?"

"What else? You want to set up two tables?"

After hanging up the phone, Gao Lingfeng's heart beat inexplicably, no less than when he was shot. He had heard a little about the Dongfang Company, but he didn't know what it was. He felt that if he refused, he would refuse. What else could he do?

"Sorry, I can't help you."

In Hong Kong, Zhu Benyan conveyed the meaning of Zongyi Records and said, "Mr. Chen, if you want to release your cover in Hong Kong, you do need copyright. If you want to release it in mainland China, uh, you should be more familiar with the environment than me."

"I want to release it in both places. There is no copyright protection in mainland China, but there is in Hong Kong. Since I work in Hong Kong, I can't be accused of not understanding the law. I'll think of another way." Chen Qi sighed helplessly, left here, went out and got in the car, and ordered, "Go to Wen Wei Po!"