1997, a special year.
This year, there is a momentous event that is of utmost importance for the Chinese people, something to celebrate nationwide.
The return of Xianggang.
Just as March began, Liang Liang received two notifications: one was for the "1997 Love Song" concert to celebrate Hong Kong's return to China, and the other was for the 1997 concert featuring 100 singers to welcome Hong Kong's return to China.
The two concerts conflicted in time, so he couldn't appear on both stages at the same time.
In the end, Liang Liang chose CCTV-8's "Love Song of 1997".
Blue Shark wasn't the only one invited by Haiyun Audio-Visual; Xu Wei was also invited.
They each had one song at this concert.
After the performance location and date were determined, a problem arose.
What song should I choose?
For an event like the 1997 handover of Hong Kong, it's natural to choose a piece of music that conveys the meaning of returning and reunifying.
However, after reviewing the songs he had written down in his notebook from memory, Liang Liang couldn't find a single classic song in this genre.
There were a few classic songs on the day of Hong Kong's return to China, but now it's April, and the original composers have mostly written them out, so they can no longer be copied.
There are some representative old songs, such as "Come Back" by Compass.
But for such a major event as the return of Hong Kong to China, singing old songs doesn't feel very meaningful.
Liang Liang felt it would be better to choose a new song. Since there was no song for a comeback, choosing another one wouldn't be a bad idea.
After much deliberation, he finally chose a piece of music.
The piece was selected by Liang Liang and he wrote it down.
Liang Liang also had another idea in mind: to take this opportunity to release an album commemorating the return of Hong Kong to China, which would surely be a huge success.
But then I thought better of it, because people would say they were just trying to ride the wave of popularity.
Does he need to ride the wave of popularity?
You're right, of course we need it!
Of course, we should capitalize on any trending topic.
Liang Liang then summoned Liu Wen and asked him to select some songs from the albums published by Haiyun Audio-Visual, put them under the title of "Welcoming Hong Kong's Return," and release them. He wondered why they hadn't sold hundreds of thousands of copies.
After this task was assigned, Liang Liang shifted her focus to the new music festival.
This year's music festival is the third edition organized by Haiyun.
The number of bands that signed up for this year's Haiyun Music Festival is several times that of previous years.
Last year, there were over 100 bands participating in the music festival, but this year nearly 300 bands have signed up.
This requires screening; otherwise, organization will be a problem, and the performance will be chaotic.
This year's performance will naturally not be held in Lianwan, but in the film and television city.
Once a film and television city is built, it will naturally be used to generate revenue, and it will also be an opportunity for the film and television city to gain fame.
In the spring, a TV crew from Liaoning Province Television was filming here, but they have already finished filming and left.
There were no film crews during the music festival.
After May Day, Zhang Xie will bring his crew to film, of course, that disgusting foreigner, "Titan Tank".
Titanic will premiere overseas this December and be released in China next March or April.
They had three months to film, and then planned to release the film domestically before its international release.
After Zhang Xie finished filming the compilation music video, he was filming the music video for Hailanghua's new album.
After the MTV is filmed, the production crew will be assembled and enter Pingshan Film and Television City.
Although the film and television city only has one base, it can easily host music festivals. If it were open to the public, it could accommodate tens of thousands of people.
With so many people, security measures must be in place to prevent a stampede.
Although the venue has changed, the number of audience members will not decrease. Two days before the music festival opens, tens of thousands of fans have already gathered in Yahe from all directions.
Last year, there was only one hotel in the film and television city. This year, thanks to Liang Liang's advance warning, two more hotels have appeared here.
But it was all for naught. Faced with tens of thousands of fans, these three hotels couldn't even accommodate the fans who called 110 (the police emergency number).
In this way, the villages surrounding the film and television city became the hope for these fans to stay.
We can't exactly sleep in the square.
Even though the atmosphere is already warm at the end of April, you can still catch a cold if you sleep in the square.
People in nearby villages then discovered that they could earn money from home.
He rented out five or six rooms in various places, earning twenty or thirty yuan a day.
The music festival will last for a week, and if you arrive two days in advance, these songs will stay here for almost ten days.
In other words, it can bring an extra two to three hundred yuan to every household in the nearby villages.
If you also take on a side job, your income will increase.
Not to mention the villages in front of Pingshan Film and Television City, even several villages in Pingshan Village behind Nandashan Mountain have benefited.
The influx of fans has benefited not only farmers, but also small vendors, taxi drivers, and even those selling ice cream, popsicles, and candied hawthorns, earning dozens of yuan a day.
The villagers of Shangqiao Village in front of the mountain, Pingshan Village behind the mountain, and Guangrong Village in Heidao Town on the left side of the mountain finally understood how this film and television city would change their lives.
Although it wasn't yet the season for wearing short sleeves at the end of April, the temperature had already started to rise.
Bands started moving in on April 26th.
These bands lived in those houses on Yangcheng Street.
Some of these houses are just fake houses for show, but there are also quite a few real houses that people can live in.
The band's arrival made the place even more lively.
Whenever musicians play their guitars at night, a group of girls will immediately surround them.
Liang Liang would shake his head whenever he saw this scene.
He dared not go out at night, much less let a group of girls surround him.
If that happens, he can forget about going back; he'll probably be nothing but a skeleton by dawn.
After selection, 130 bands participated in the 1997 Haiyun Music Festival.
The bands that were rejected weren't technically incompetent; rather, their music didn't meet the festival's requirements.
The remaining bands are still mainly from Northeast China and Beijing, but this year there are also six or seven bands from the South.
Luo Lin and the desert winds and sands, Guo Wang's snow-capped eagles have all come this year as well.
Liang Liang was very happy to see them and treated them to a meal.
"Hey guys! Have you had any new works in the past year? Haiyun Company is waiting for your works to be published."
After Liang Liang signed these two bands, Snow Eagles released a few singles, while Luo Lin didn't produce anything at all.
Two singles by the Snow Eagles band were included in the second volume of "Northeast Tiger" released at the end of last year.
"I've written some songs, bro, take a look and see if they're any good?"
Luo Lin said somewhat shyly.
"Tell me the song title first, let me hear it."
As soon as Luo Lin mentioned the song title, Liang Liang shook his head inwardly.
This is the album that Luo Lin released, which sold only two thousand copies and flopped.
None of the songs on this album are good.
Although Liang Liang knew that he would definitely not approve of these pieces, he still pretended to listen to them.
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