Lead singer: Alan Tam (also known as "Allen", collectively referred to as President Tan, forever 25 years old, forever ...
Lead singer: Zhong Zhentao (also known as "A B", forever 25 years old A B, Eternal all-around musician.
lead guitarist: Peng Jianxin-also known as "Jian Zi", 25 years old forever, happy forever.
Drummer: Chen You (also known as Friend Chan), 25 years old forever, and a good friend of speaking parts forever.
Bass guitarist: Danny)-- Yip- Happy and honest forever. [Edit this paragraph] The band introduces wynners. Youth Group, composed of five young people with long hair, is a smash hit. Besides making records, he also makes TV feature films and movies, which is really well known to all ages. Let's remember their names: Alan Tam, Zhong Zhentao, Jianxin Peng and other five-person "Wenna" band. But after their dissolution, Alan Tam, Zhong Zhentao and Peng Jianxin's personal achievements were also quite good.
Cheng Jun was named Loosers in Wenna in 1973. At that time, the lineup included Alan Tam, Danny Yip, Peng Jianxin, and Chen Baixiang brothers. Unfortunately, the group broke up before its ambition was fulfilled, and it was entirely due to the fate of being named Loosers.
The indomitable Allen made great efforts to find Chen You and A B to reorganize a new group in 73, named. The debut album "Listen to the Wynners" received a good response, and five big boys immediately became super idols pursued by young people in Hong Kong. With a large number of fans as the foundation, three records were released in one breath every other year, including a soundtrack album of their film debut "Everybody's Music". Then they starred in the movie "Running and Jumping" and the famous song "sha-la-la-la-la". The album of the same name followed suit.
Just like many red-hot orchestras, Wenna faced several disintegration crises, and the soul figures Allen and A B also broke out many times under the over-caring eyes of the media. Regardless of the truth, they did develop separately in the end, and each had his own day. The English name of A
"wynners" with outstanding appearance was Winners, and its members included Alan Tam and Zhong Zhentao. Contradictions and disagreements among members made "Wenna" face the crisis of disintegration several times, and finally it was not allowed to go their separate ways. The band didn't officially break up, so they reunited every few years. 27 is the 33rd anniversary of "wynners". On the first day of New Year's Day, the Five Tigers sang in the Hong Kong Red House. 13 games in a row, the venue was full. [Edit this paragraph] Record 1974: Listen to the wynners》
1975: Love and other pieces》
1975: Under the lion rock》
1975: Everybody's Music (Philip 6384)
1976: Same King. Gic (Feilipu 6386)
1976: The Wynners' Special TV Hits 75-76
1977: Making it》
1977: Face Stupid and Mind Essence (Polaroid 242715)
1997. Year: "Star on 33" [edit this paragraph] has six historical materials
Pato Leung, a former manager who visited wynners a few days ago,
his materials are really rich, and fans must be very satisfied. According to Pato, wynners, known by people today, is composed of five people, including Allen, A B, Chen You, Jianzai and A Qiang. But in fact, when wynners was first formed, there was a member named Andrew Oh.
Andrew Oh
Andrew Oh used to be the main member of a Singapore band, Establishment, which was also owned by Pato Leung. However, members cannot stay in Hong Kong for a long time because of residence permits, so they have to return to Singapore.
Join Wenna
But Andrew Oh asked Pato Leung to let him stay because he had to bear the family's financial burden. In order to earn money to support his family, on the other hand, he hoped to postpone the period of military service, so Pato asked Andrew Oh to join wynners in 1973.
However, before that, wynners's predecessor was a band called Loosers. Loosers band was formally formed as early as the end of 1969. The team members at that time included Chen Baixiang, Chen Baishen, Kenzai, A Qiang, Chen You and Alan Tam.
Living in North Point
Chen Baixiang, Chen Baishen, Peng Jianxin and A Qiang shared a floor in Electric Road in North Point, and Chen You also lived nearby. Although Alan Tam lived far away, because everyone shared the same interests, he co-organized Loosers and participated in many singing competitions. Unfortunately, the results are not satisfactory.
As it happens, Pato Leung also lived in the electrical road, and everyone was a neighbor. It can be said that under the arrangement of God's will, Pato Leung started a cooperative relationship with Loosers.
the process of understanding
Pato and the members of Loosers know each other for a long time. It turns out that Chen Baixiang once got into an affair, and he fell in love with the unsuccessful Hong Kong sister He Xiuwen. But Mabel already has a boyfriend, but she has fallen in love with Adlai. Mabel's boyfriend was not convinced, so he talked about it to Dong Mengni, editor-in-chief of Ming Pao Weekly at that time. Dong Mengni also reported that some band members stole the wall and won the beauty back. At that time, Pato was the chief editor of the entertainment section of an English newspaper, China Mail. Because of his great interest in this matter, he found out that Adele Chen Baixiang was a neighbor. Pato had already participated in the record producer's work and made Chen Meiling famous. Chen Baixiang, who values heroes, asked both sides to cooperate.
Since' The 1st Folk Album' has been sold, and' The 2nd Folk Album' has made Chen Meiling famous, Chen Baixiang also hopes to record for Loosers. Pato was finally willing to listen to them practice songs in their studio, and found that these boys had great potential, which also laid a foundation for their future cooperation. Chen Baixiang, Chen Baishen, Peng Jianxin, A Qiang, Chen You and Alan Tam were still members of p>The Loosers. Andrew Oh and A B, who still didn't join in that year. After Loosers won the championship of Beach Pop Music Festival in 1971, Pato signed a contract with them and arranged other performances.
In 1972, Pato personally led Loosers to perform in Okinawa. At the same time, Pato also arranged for Loosers to sign a contract with Polaroid Records (the predecessor of Polaroid) to arrange the recording work.
It's temporarily disintegrated
However, Loosers and Polaroid are predestined friends. After several missed opportunities, Alan Tam went to Singapore for further studies, while Chen Baixiang also went to the Middle East for business. At this time, the development of Loosers band came to an end and announced its temporary dissolution.
Pato talked about this, and there is an anecdote of an episode. In those days, Chen Baixiang and Alan Tam were born with the character of "R". Once they gave a Tea Dance performance in a nightclub seafood restaurant in North Point. During the break, Chen Baixiang and Alan Tam actually caught fish and took lobsters in the fish pond. It was really angry with Pato!
Reorganizing the Band
Pato stopped by Alan Tam while arranging performances by foreign bands in Singapore. Alan Tam said that he was depressed to study in Singapore, so he hoped Pato could arrange to reorganize the band.
Because Chen Baixiang and his two brothers have already worked in the Middle East, the rest Jian Zi, Chen You and A Qiang are doing odd jobs for other bands, and their income is meager. In order to reorganize the band, Pato thought it was time for Loosers to change members, so he called A B to join.
A B joined
Originally, Pato and A B tried to cooperate in 1971 and 2. At that time, A B was a member of a band, Sergeant-Majors, and once became the champion of a band competition of TVB. Pato signed a contract with Sergeant-Majors, and announced its dissolution because several members of the team disagreed. After consulting with B, Pato decided to join Allen's band.
In 1973, the band Wynners was formally established. At that time, the lineup was Alan Tam, A B, Jian Zi, Chen You, A Qiang and Andrew Oh.
because Andrew Oh's residence permit could not be extended later, he had to return to Singapore as a last resort. After consulting with the members of wynners, Pato decided to maintain Wenna as a five-person band.
Since wynners performed in Downtown, Wan Chai and other places, their playing skills have become more and more proficient and improved. Pato, after all the members worked hard to hone their skills, discussed recording with Zheng Donghai Norman Cheng, an important member of Polaroid Records Company.
The first recorded compact disc in wynners was' Sunshine Lover', with A B as the lead singer. The side of B-Side is' Would You Laugh' by Allen. "‘Sunshine Lover'" soon became the number one song on the local pop charts, and from this time on, local fans began to pay attention to wynners. The following song' Sha-La-La-La-La' topped the list for several weeks. Wynners has officially established a certain position in the local music scene.
Although there were some TV performances in wynners before this, they were only guest performances. Pato has a unique vision and hopes that wynners can have its own independent program. At that time, the two TV stations were not doing well, and they were only willing to arrange some non-prime time. Because of the TV station, I still feel uneasy about a band hosting an independent Show. Therefore, the two sides agreed that if there is no breakthrough in viewing within three weeks, they will cut show, that is, cut the waist.
Weekly diary of Wenna
At the same time, wynners released the band's first album' Listen to the Wynners'. Because the local music scene was still dominated by Chinese songs and Cantonese songs, many people did not dare to value English songs.
But after the release of the English album' Listen to the Wynners', it shocked the whole music world. Not long after the album was released, it soon sold more than 1 thousand copies. At that time, the sales volume of 1 thousand copies was the number of platinum records today.
During the two years from 1973 to 1975, wynners quickly became the idol of young people. TVB began to pay attention to wynners, and also sent people to lobby Pato, hoping to join TVB from Lili.
The album is awesome
Pato got the help of Yunyingqi, and after overcoming all difficulties, he officially planned a TV program called Winner's Weekly Diary for Wynners, which was broadcast on Li's TV every Monday night. At that time, Pato was hands-on, planning the program with the TV staff and * * *. And organized a fan club for Wenna, and arranged for fans to visit on the spot. When doing the program, wynners became one with the fans, which was very lively. Therefore, the performance of the whole program, although mainly English songs, has a high audience rating.
Start filming
When wynners made achievements in TV performances, I didn't expect that even the film industry began to look after him. First, James J.S.Wong asked Pato to let wynners make films for him. On the other hand, Shaw also made eyes at Pato and made a promise of eight films. After careful consideration, Pato finally reached an agreement with James J.S.Wong, and began to prepare for the filming of "Happy Everyone". From this time on, wynners's career will reach another peak.
After the filming of' Happy Everybody' was completed, it was released in the prime time of Christmas. I can't believe that wynners's film debut was very popular with fans. At that time, the box office record was as high as more than two million Hong Kong dollars, which is almost the same as 2 million Hong Kong dollars today.
Werner's Rhapsody
There is no denying that Pato is not only the first successful manager in Hong Kong, but also full of strength. Although there are a lot of right and wrong in the circle, the author thinks that Alan Tam and A B can achieve what they have achieved today because of Pato's contribution.
why do you say this? It turns out that Pato negotiated with Wireless and made a lot of efforts for wynners's accession. One of Pato's conditions when TVB started shooting "Rhapsody of Wenna" was to restrict TVB from replaying this program after three years. Because he wants to protect his future image.
Sometimes I really have to admire Pato's vision, because he understands that if' Rhapsody of Wenna' is still replayed today, it is not difficult for fans to have the illusion that Wenna's skills are insufficient, the image is old-fashioned, and the songs are not fresh. Pato ignored other people's criticism for the benefit of wynners. As a result, it turns out that all the players in wynners have not been completely played.
Wen Na and Jiao Shu
Due to the ideal development of wynners's songs, films and television, Jiahe also invited them to make a film and made it into Wen Na and Jiao Shu. It's a pity that the film Wenna and Uncle Jiao was a fiasco at the box office, and the results were not satisfactory. The main reason is that the script and directing techniques of this film are very poor, which fails to give full play to the advantages of Wenna, and Pato has no control over the production, so everyone is very disappointed with this experience. Pato after this lesson, in order to maintain the wynners.