The days of being enemies with Leslie Cheung.
After Leslie Cheung finished singing the winning song, the host Cai Fenghua said: "I sincerely congratulate Leslie Cheung, but a moment’s glory may not be eternal."
This sentence is regarded as derogatory to Leslie Cheung. After that, Cai Fenghua, as the top figure in the entertainment circle, was abandoned by the audience. The wireless TV station no longer reused him, and his reputation plummeted. In middle age, Cai Fenghua was even listed as the "Four Epilepsy Kings of Hong Kong" by Hong Kong media.
He explained in the interview that he said that sentence for Danny Chan.
The story of Leslie Cheung, Danny Chan and Cai Fenghua began in 1977.
That year, 19-year-old Danny Chan found himself unable to adapt to life abroad and returned to Hong Kong from San Francisco. After returning home, in order to get his father to support him in learning music, Danny Chan went to learn Cantonese opera and won the first prize in the Hong Kong Shanye Electronic Organ Competition.
In the same year, Danny Chan participated in the "Invitational Competition for Pop Song Creation" and was signed as an official singer by the wireless TV station.
In May, 1977, Leslie Cheung participated in the Asian Amateur Singing Competition of Lili TV Station and won the second place.
One day, Leslie Cheung and his friends were chatting happily in a restaurant called "BAND BAND", and Danny Chan walked by. He said to Leslie Cheung, "Some people say that I look like you!"
Seeing this tasteful boy in front of him, Leslie Cheung replied in amazement: "Who are you?"
He said, "My name is Danny." Danny is the English name of Danny Chan.
At that time, both TV stations of Wireless and Lili were on the broadcast channel, and Danny Chan sometimes went to Lili’s TV station to find Leslie Cheung to get off work together. Two big boys go shopping, bar and Disco together. Before long, two people signed the same manager.
Once, Leslie Cheung and Danny Chan were invited to attend a concert in Macau at the same time. On the voyage, they sat together.
Danny Chan took out the recording he brought on board and brought it to Leslie Cheung. After listening to all the songs on the tape, Leslie Cheung asked Danny Chan, "Are these your new songs?" Danny Chan nodded: "Yes."
"I like the song" Tears for You "with the sound of the phone best." Leslie Cheung said.
In the afternoon, Leslie Cheung accepted a radio interview with two singers, Ye Liyi and Ye Zhentang, and Danny Chan was left aside.
Leslie Cheung noticed that reporters turned a blind eye to Danny Chan, so he said, "This is Danny Chan. You can see him sometimes when you watch Happy Tonight. Why don’t you visit him?" After listening to Leslie Cheung’s words, the reporters gave an interview to the singer who has not yet become popular.
At that time, Leslie Cheung felt that he was an elder brother, so he should take care of Danny Chan more.
Cai Fenghua is four years younger than Leslie Cheung. She has just entered the entertainment circle, and she doesn’t understand many things. When he was filming, Leslie Cheung taught him what "over the shoulder" and "over the mirror" were.
After work, Danny Chan and Leslie Cheung played with the younger brother, and Cai Fenghua learned English table tennis from them.
Cai Fenghua recalled in the interview: "Leslie Cheung, Danny Chan, Anita Mui and I are good friends. As soon as we meet each other, we will go to Lan Kwai Fong to play, and there is no need to make an appointment. At that time, we were not very popular and didn’t earn much, but every time we paid the bill, we didn’t give each other, vying for money. "
It didn’t take long for this group of good friends to play together, and Danny Chan quickly became popular.
In 1979, in Danny Chan’s first solo album, Leslie Cheung’s favorite song "Tears for You" became an instant hit and won the Hong Kong Top Ten Chinese Golden Melody Award.
Cai Fenghua was the second to capture the "Top Ten Golden Songs". In the TV series "Youth Trio", his interlude "Beautiful Shadow" won five awards.
Once Yinghua Girls’ Middle School invited Cai Fenghua to sing. He was late for a long time, but the girls didn’t mind. When they saw him, they cheered: "Fenghua Fenghua, peerless elegance".
Compared with Danny Chan and Cai Fenghua, the development of Leslie Cheung in those years was full of twists and turns.
His records sold badly, and they were sold for one yuan by the store. Very not easy to wait for a chance to first hero, the result to the crew, Leslie Cheung found that this is a third-class film.
In 1980, the youth film "Cheers" cast Leslie Cheung and Danny Chan at the same time. There are only thirteen shots of the villain in Leslie Cheung’s film. Danny Chan has never made a film and has no acting experience, but he has become the leading actor.
In later memories, the heroine of Cheers said: "Most new artists avoid villains, and such roles are easy to be stereotyped. Once they are deeply branded in the audience’s mind, it will be difficult to resonate if they want to play Zhongliang again in the future."
Young Leslie Cheung doesn’t want to play the villain role, but manager Tan Guoji wants to focus on winning Danny Chan. As an artist in the same company, Leslie Cheung only has to obey orders and cooperate.
However, the performance of Danny Chan, the protagonist, made the director dissatisfied. His child got angry and said, "It’s obviously a good shot, why do you remake it again?" Waste youth! "
When dubbing later, Danny Chan left after half an hour of frustration, and the film had to find someone else to dub him; Leslie Cheung, on the other hand, "is most willing to learn dubbing skills, and he can finish the task quickly".
Director Clifford Choi praised Leslie Cheung, and recommended Leslie Cheung to other crews, saying that he "overshadowed the leading role".
Danny Chan is aware of his shortcomings, and sometimes he stays alone in the corner, lost in thought. Others judged that he was in a bad mood and left him alone. But Leslie Cheung, who is cheerful, loves to tease him at this time. Danny Chan sometimes responded with jokes, and sometimes walked away silently.
In August 1981, Zhong Baoluo, a mutual friend of Chen, Zhang and Cai, was injured by a truck in North Point. Manager Tan Guoji held a concert for Zhong Baoluo to raise money for medical expenses, and all three of them volunteered to participate in the performance.
On the surface, the protagonist of the concert is Zhong Baoluo, but the spotlight is on Danny Chan and Leslie Cheung.
The order of their performances is "Leslie Cheung takes the lead, Danny Chan is the finale". Organizers believe that more audiences are coming for Danny Chan, so it is better to keep people by letting him be the finale.
In the face of continuous comparison, the friendship between the two men has cracked. Later, Leslie Cheung recalled: "In terms of movies, many people thought highly of me, but in terms of singing, he was above me. This stage lasted for a long time. Under such circumstances, we feel a little out of step. “
Danny Chan was always unhappy when they filmed The Unemployed. Leslie Cheung said, "It seems difficult to be with my partner for him." At the press conference, Leslie Cheung unilaterally announced that it would no longer cooperate with Danny Chan.
In the film Merry Christmas, even if two people appeared in the cast at the same time, there was not a scene in which two people appeared at the same time. Director Gao Zhisen said: "In order not to bump into each other on the set, body double was used in the same scene."
On January 16th, 1983, TVB’s jade solid gold broadcasted Leslie Cheung’s first MV "Let Me Fly", and the host of the program was Cai Fenghua.
Cai Fenghua said, "This song is so popular in the United States that even the chairman of the conference, Hill David, has to buy the copyright of this song to launch it. This is a song that Leslie Cheung won glory for Hong Kong. " After the MV of the song was released, Cai Fenghua and Leslie Cheung hugged each other and talked while walking.
Danny Chan and Cai Fenghua have more frequent contacts. When Danny Chan filmed the MV of "Star Picking", Cai Fenghua visited the class. The two always appear together at the "Miss Hong Kong" and "Golden Record" awards ceremony.
When TVB celebrated Taiwan, Danny Chan and Cai Fenghua also put on dragon dancing clothes and danced together.
When Danny Chan came to the program hosted by Cai Fenghua as a guest, Cai Fenghua felt that Leslie Cheung was still their good friend, and still talked about him without hesitation.
August 3rd, 1985 was the award ceremony for the second season of TVB’s "Top Ten jade solid gold". Because Leslie Cheung won three songs, TVB arranged to broadcast them to his concert.
Cai Fenghua, the host, announced Leslie Cheung’s winning tracks: Unbridled Heart, I Do, and Girl’s Heart. After years of silence in her singing career, Leslie Cheung was extremely excited to achieve such good results.
"I’m here to speak, really my feelings about Danny Chan. I am very dissatisfied with him because all his songs are good to listen to, but he never wrote a song for me. Making movies will always be, he is loyal and I am a traitor. "
Cai Fenghua thought that Leslie Cheung was provoking Danny Chan, so he took the lead: "In fact, it doesn’t matter whether you win the prize or not, but I really want to be a singer, regardless of other people’s songs or your own songs. When I first saw Leslie Cheung’s concert, I also sincerely congratulated him and got three golden songs. But a moment’s glory may not be eternal … "
At that time, it was a live broadcast. The hostess was afraid that Cai Fenghua would say something wrong and interrupted him at the first time: "I believe that all the audience support A Ken (Cai Fenghua). It is better to direct advanced advertisements." Cai Fenghua, who stood to the side, seemed to have something to say, and finally gave up.
After the seasonal election awards that night, Danny Chan was worried about Cai Fenghua and said to him a little shyly, "TAKE CARE."
Years later, Cai Fenghua explained why he said that: "I just don’t want to see two good friends lose their friendship because of the competition at work. Danny Chan is my friend, so is Leslie Cheung. At that time, I was just trying to persuade them. I couldn’t estimate it and the reaction was so great. "
Cai Fenghua’s status as the host of jade solid gold for five years in a row was forced to end.
In that season’s "Top Ten jade solid gold", Cai Fenghua’s songs were originally shortlisted. At the final award ceremony, his work was defeated.
The media speculated that Cai Fenghua was jealous of Leslie Cheung when he said that "a moment’s brilliance may not last forever". The publication of such reports has greatly damaged Cai Fenghua’s image.
In 1986, the International Recording Association and TVB filed a lawsuit over copyright issues, and Cai Fenghua’s album Absolute Emptiness was implicated, which prevented him from appearing on TV.
Jade solid gold lost his job, and the album was "hidden in the snow". Cai Fenghua was depressed for a while and was contaminated with drugs. Reporter Cha Xiaoxin mentioned that when they met, Cai Fenghua’s face was flushed, his eyes were dull, his speech was slurred, and he said that he had "taken 12 sedatives".
In the 1990s, the only job left for Cai Fenghua was a late-night radio program.
One day, he accidentally fell asleep and played his song three times, which aroused the dissatisfaction of the audience. Cai Fenghua even lost his last job. At that time, the most frequent voice was: "If you do more injustice, you will die. This is karma."
Without a source of income, the rent for Cai Fenghua’s village house can only be paid by her elderly mother. Mother will bring him food, but he won’t eat it all at once. He only eats one meal every day.
On one occasion, Cai Fenghua went to sing for other singers, wearing sunglasses all the time. He told reporters: "The eyes were injured by the underworld, and the doctor said that he should avoid light and only wear sunglasses to see people." Even so, the entertainment circle still didn’t let him go, and took him as a laughing stock at every opportunity.
In the program "Happy Tonight", the imitator mocked Cai Fenghua’s character of remembering the past and imitated his nagging before singing: "I used to sing this song when Danny, Leslie and Ah Mui were on stage in Malaysia in the 1980s." In the arranged plot, the following audience said impatiently, "Don’t talk about your glorious deeds in those days, can you just sing?" "
The host of "Everyone is so coquettish" talked about Cai Fenghua, saying: "The TV station staff went to his home to interview, and he drove them away with urine." Cai Fenghua complained: "This is naked slander". But the other party didn’t take it to heart, saying that he was too sensitive.
People think that Cai Fenghua is crazy, and he, together with Lan Jieying, Pauline Chan and Hong Chaofeng, is named as "the Four Epilepsy Kings of Hong Kong". In Jing Wong’s King of Thousand Kings 2000, Nick Cheung’s character was tattooed "I love Cai Fenghua" by his cellmate, which was a great shame.
In the days when the media attacked him the most, Danny Chan couldn’t bear to see him being treated unfairly. He wrote in the magazine: "A moment’s brilliance can last forever. I sincerely hope that my friend Cai Fenghua can continue to work hard for a new day."
Danny Chan, who encouraged Cai Fenghua, failed to resist the offensive of depression. On May 18th, 1992, Danny Chan took a lot of sleeping pills with wine and was sent to Queen Mary Hospital for treatment.
After ten months in a coma, Leslie Cheung came to Danny Chan’s ward. Leslie Cheung whispered "Danny" in his ear, but he still didn’t respond.
After leaving, from the elevator to the lobby, Leslie Cheung didn’t speak, and his two hands kept rubbing nervously. It was not until he got on the bus that Leslie Cheung said faintly, "It’s hard to see him like this. Why should he spoil himself?"? I often advised him, but he wouldn’t listen … "
Seven months later, Danny Chan said goodbye to this world forever. Ten years later, Leslie Cheung jumped off the Mandarin Hotel because of depression, and Queen Mary Hospital became the last stop of his life.
At Leslie Cheung’s funeral, there were countless stars, and most of them were seated. However, one person stood far away among the fans and watched him leave in a low-key way. Someone recognized him: "That’s Cai Fenghua, the four most insane Wang Zhiyi in Hong Kong!"
At this time, Cai Fenghua is middle-aged and fat, wearing sunglasses and standing in the crowd, but everyone disappears.
Cai Fenghua was present at the Stars Concert on the 15th anniversary of Leslie Cheung’s death. Just as the music was about to start, he stopped and said, "Some people say that’ a moment’s brilliance doesn’t mean eternity’ makes me go downhill. Wrong. In fact, there is a heavenly king who has been helping me. That person’s name is Leslie Cheung."
In 1985, Leslie Cheung learned from a friend what Cai Fenghua said at the award ceremony. He was not angry and helped to explain: "Don’t blame him, he didn’t know what he was talking about when he spoke, and he didn’t know the kind of person who hit the board until after he spoke; I used to be like this. He is actually very pure and lovely. "
Back to the day before the "incident", when Leslie Cheung was singing "Love is not a game" in the middle of the concert, he suddenly heard a loud noise from the audience. Leslie Cheung looking back, it turned out to be Cai Fenghua holding a flower, sitting in the audience and looking at him from afar.
He immediately invited Cai Fenghua to take the stage. Cai Fenghua said, "This is the first time I have heard my own song at someone else’s concert. I am so moved. I want to give Leslie Cheung a kiss."
After Leslie Cheung’s death, Cai Fenghua was interviewed by reporters at the seaside. He said, "I really hope that the wireless TV station can sell me a favor and let me talk about Leslie, Danny Chan and Zhong Baoluo on the last TV station. I really want to end everything in the past, then concentrate on developing my career and hold a concert in the Red Pavilion. People say Leslie died, which makes me so happy. Absolutely not! The most painful thing should be me. "
In 2012, several good friends helped Cai Fenghua realize his wish of "giving a solo concert in Hung Hom Gymnasium". The attendance rate of the day was 90%. Cai Fenghua said excitedly: "I have been waiting for this opportunity for 31 years, and finally I have the opportunity to meet you."
In the Red Pavilion, he sang Anita Mui’s Walk Alone, Danny Chan’s Star and Leslie Cheung’s Love of the Year.
This year, Leslie Cheung, Danny Chan and Anita Mui had already passed away, and Zhong Baoluo jumped down from home.
Cai Fenghua recalled the past and said, "The loss of the Hong Kong music scene is due to the daily struggle. Everyone is a singer, and there is really no way for the cause to stage a enter the dragon. "
When a group photo appeared on the screen, Cai Fenghua said with tears: "I have been so lonely in recent years, and now I am the only one standing here."
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Original title: "Days of Enemy with Leslie Cheung"
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