Exploiting Hollywood 1980

The Pasadena Municipal Auditorium has two levels of seats, and the performance stage is also very large. The steps can be used for dancers and harmony performances. The semicircular stage in front is very close to the front row of the audience, and you can reach out and touch it.

The two tickets given by Michael Jackson are slightly further back, in the aisle position of more than ten rows. For watching the performance, it is indeed the best seat.

Ronald gentlemanly asked Diane to sit in the inner seat, and he sat next to the aisle. After sitting down, he and Diane smiled at each other. There were more than a thousand spectators at the scene, and the atmosphere was very warm before the show started.

The seating arrangement was very interesting. Most of the audiences on Ronald and Diane's side were white audiences wearing exquisite dresses, while the audiences next to them were black audiences. There were also some black children wearing gaudy red bow ties, who might be relatives of the actors.

Not long after, the curtain opened, and the first to appear was Lionel Richie. After he sang a solo, he played with the band before his solo career. . The black audience had already started to applaud and cheer enthusiastically. Ronald and Diane were not familiar with their history, so they just clapped their hands in agreement.

The black artists were more casual, and Marvin Gaye, who came on stage next, simply spent a few minutes introducing the history of black music, and then sang his classic song "Gog On" from Motown Records, and the audience applauded.

"Marvin should have stayed in Motown, not Columbia, where white people are in power." It was a black youth across the aisle who cleared Ronald's doubts.

But these black people still listen to the old club's performance and talk about loyalty.

After a few singers that Ronald and Diane didn't know sang, it was finally Michael Jackson's turn to perform. Like Marvin Gaye, he had already switched to other record companies. But this time it was not only him who came on stage, but also his four brothers.

"Jabsp;5!" The audience set off another frenzy. This was the chorus formed by the Jackson family. Michael wore a diamond-studded top, tight nine-point pants, white socks, black leather shoes, and only one left hand was wearing a white diamond-studded glove.

Jabsp;5 sang their most famous single "I; You Back". This ignited the common memory of all black people, and they stood up and swayed to the rhythm.

The white audience on Ronald's side did not stand up, but just clapped along with the rhythm in their hats.

"Thank you, Jabsp;5 is already a piece of history.

The band played the prelude of MJ's latest single "Billie Jean". Michael Jackson took the black hat and put it on his head, then turned sideways to the audience and took a ready pose.

"Ah...ah..." The enthusiasm of the white audience was also ignited, and countless white girls in the front and back stood up screaming.

Diane also pulled Ronald's first song, and was infected by the atmosphere and stood up and cheered.

This "Billie Jean" is not a Motown song, and it is the only single that is not produced by Motown so far. However, Michael Jackson is now the number one singer on the charts. His participation in the performance gave Motown enough face, and a single was not a big problem.

MJ covered his crotch with white gloves and twisted quickly, dancing at a fast pace, combing his hair, and making the shape of an empty guitar. The emotions of the audience, MJ's performance had already stirred him beyond measure.

"Pah... pah... pah..." MJ performed the moonwalk that he had practiced for months. He looked forward, but he was actually moving backward.

"Ahhh..." This dance step seemed to have detonated explosives. All the women in the audience, regardless of skin color, age, single or married, screamed as if they were going to blow the roof off. Several female audience members in the front row couldn't even hold back and wanted to climb onto the stage to touch MJ's feet.

Ronald dug his ears because of Diane's screams. This dance choreography was so familiar. Did he learn breakdance from Michael Jackson in his previous life?

Ronald noticed that this wave was more of white girls screaming, while black girls were relatively calm.

After MJ left the stage, another wave of black stars that Ronald didn't know came next. The show was exciting, but the arrangement was not very good. Sometimes the singers would sing an extra song or introduce their old partners when they were in the mood.

In addition to the blind singer Stevie Wonder ( Wonder), and none of the others.

Ronald looked at his watch. More than an hour had passed. Just when he felt a little tired, a soft music sounded, and the spotlight shone back, lighting up the entrance of the city hall. Everyone looked back, and a figure flashed at the empty entrance.

"There is no mountain high enough, no river wide enough,

If you need me, call me, no matter where you are, no matter how far you are,

Baby, call my name, I will rush over..."

A beautiful black singer, with explosive black hair, a white diamond-studded high-shoulder shirt on the upper body, a black tight-fitting hip skirt on the lower body, and diamond-studded high heels under black stockings, walked from the entrance to the stage with sexy steps.

Her arrival caused the audience to stand up and applaud. It was Diana Ross, the most famous singer since the establishment of Motown, who entered the stage.

Holding a wireless microphone in one hand and a white fur shawl in the other, Diana Ross's superstar aura was unstoppable, like a whirlpool, attracting the attention of all the audience and stars to her.

"Oh, this is the style of a superstar. I like the aura of this singer so much. I want to wear it like this if I have the chance in the future." Diane Lane was standing next to her, staring at Diana Ross who was walking through the aisle. This emotion seemed to be jealousy, envy, and more likely a hope that I would be as radiant as that.

Just like a movie can only have one heroine, a concert can only have one female singer.

Diana Ross sang the best-selling single "A't No Mounta High Enough", which caused the climax of the concert.

After singing this song, two female singers came on stage from both sides, one in a white dress and the other in a red dress. They were Diana Ross's two partners during the Supres band period. The three singers reunited and became the Supres band to sing for everyone.

As Diana Ross called out the names of old colleagues and old friends one by one, all the singers in Motown over the past 25 years came on stage and the whole audience began to sing together.

The ending scene was long and boring. Many Motown Records employees, managers, backing vocalists, and young singers who had not yet made their debut jumped onto the stage to take a group photo with the superstars.

Seeing that there was no encore, Ronald quickly pulled Diane away first, otherwise there would be a traffic jam.

The two left together with many white audiences, jumped into their rented car, and asked the driver to drive to Los Angeles.

Diane hugged Ronald's arm in the back seat. She was very happy today, as if she had become the protagonist of her life.

Ronald also smiled at her, "You put on makeup like a jazz singer today, but you are going to play a rock singer."

"Well...what's wrong, is the makeup too heavy? I always can't put it on well by myself."

Diane's lipstick and eyeshadow were indeed a little darker. Girls of this age don't actually need that kind of heavy stage makeup.

"Not bad, "Rage Streets" will always match you with a good makeup artist."

Soon the car returned to the hotel, and Ronald took Diane back to the door of the room where Bert and her lived.

"We're here, Diane."

"Good night, Ronnie." Diane took out the room card and shook it. "Then I'll go in."

"Okay, see you at the premiere of 'The Outcast'." Ronald turned around and wanted to leave.

"Well?" Diane Lane saw that Ronald wanted to leave, and quickly opened the door, "Aren't you going to come in and sit down?"

"I still have to go home to write a script. It's a good day, Diane." Ronald hugged Diane and kissed her cheek. "Hi, Bert." Ronald greeted Bert behind Diane.

"Bert," Diane turned around and saw that it was her father, and turned to Ronald and said, "My 'Streets of Rage' starts with a concert shot. Will you come to the set and guide me?"

"Bert is here, I can't say anything." Ronald waved to the father and daughter, and saw Diane bit her lower lip a little disappointedly, "But I will go to the set to cheer you up, remember to call me to tell me the time."

"Bye!" Diane waved to him and walked into the room.