Ka Kui Wong; Coma
—— Band duties: head of the band, lead singer, guitarist, composer, lyricist and arranger.
Paul Wong
—— Band duties: singer, guitarist, harmonizer, composer, lyricist and arranger.
Sai-Wing Yip
—— Band duties: drummer, lyricist and arranger.
Steve Wong
—— Band duties: singer, bassist, composer, lyricist and arranger.
Supergrowth process
Ka Kui Wong and Ye Shirong belonged to different bands before they formed BEYOND. Later, I found that everyone's music preferences were similar, so I formed BEYOND. Later, BEYOND participated in the Yamagata Guitar Competition held by Guitar magazine and won the first prize. The winning songs are included in a miscellaneous disc called Hong Kong. In this game, besides Ka Kui and Rong Shi, some players left the team. After participating in the creation of the song "Hong Kong", Jiaju's younger brother Huang officially participated in "Beyond".
Beyond the competition, 1983 won the championship.
Transcendence is formed in 1983. Beyond hasn't been formed yet in order to take part in a music competition. Paul 1984 joined, Chen Shian left, and Liu Zhiyuan 1986 joined, but left in 1988, and the quartet was formally formed. Beyond paid for the first concert "Forever Waiting" on 1985, and made the record "Goodbye Ideal" on 1986. Beyond signed a contract with a record company and released an EP of Forever Waiting in 1987. With the release of 1988' s third album Old Footprints,
Beyond started writing on 1984.
From the end of 1983 to 1984, BEYOND mostly participated in the performances of some bands and began to try to write more works. The works that had been completed at that time included The Long Road Without Friends. This work was later changed into a Chinese work "Treasure of the East" in the album "Arabian Dancer". The English version is included in the lonely kiss cassette. There is also a song called "My", and the above two songs are also in English. Later, I also finished some Chinese songs, such as Forever Waiting.
Chen Shian left BEYOUND.
At this time, Chen Shian had to leave BEYOND because of reading problems, and Paul formally joined BEYOND as a designer, as a guitarist and as a band designer. BEYOND held a "Forever Waiting Concert" at Caritas Centre on Hong Kong Island at its own expense. Although the fans present on that day were not enthusiastic, their enthusiasm remained the same. Beyond invited many record companies to watch it, but none of them came. Fortunately, all the people who should come have come-Chen Jiantian, the first manager of Beyond, dragged down their cooperative relationship for the next five years and the subsequent legal disputes. They did everything before and after the concert themselves, and even borrowed 1.6 million yuan from the bank to hold it smoothly, but in the end they lost 6 thousand yuan. At that time, their labor was only 1000 yuan, which shows their determination. Their idea at that time was to introduce their works to other friends in the form of public performances. More optimistically, they hope to make some money through this concert to pay for the publication of tapes in the future. At that time, it was a bold and confident attempt.
1986 has completed the goodbye ideal.
After completing the "Goodbye Ideal" cassette, the next step is to start publicity work, put up posters, distribute leaflets, find a record store to check in, deliver goods, collect money and so on. It is really hard for them, but as long as their music can be known by more people, they are still willing to bear it. They borrowed 20,000 yuan from their friends. Fortunately, they made money, and each of them got 240 yuan's bonus. Although the amount is small, it is a great encouragement to them. BEYOND then signed a contract with Kinn's Music Ltd After the band was released, they held a two-night small-scale performance called "Anatomy Party", which was held at the Central Art Spike Club in Hong Kong. BEYOND was the boss of an underground band in the eyes of a group of underground fans. Everyone has different expectations for them to leave the independent band, but BEYOND knows that this will be the point of no return for their music. With the help of this gathering, BEYOND hopes that fans can understand their situation and make a musical watershed for the previous Beyond and the future Beyond. During the two-night performance, they mainly performed the works in Farewell to Ideals. BEYOND participated in the first Pan-Asian Music Festival in Taipei and performed with top singers and musicians from Singapore, the Philippines and Japan. This is the first time BEYOND has performed in other places. Originally, there were only two performances, but because of the enthusiastic response, Beyond was invited by the organizers to perform an extra performance, which undoubtedly strengthened their determination to rush out of Hong Kong and joined guitarist Liu Zhiyuan (Zai Yuan). After returning to Hong Kong, I want to record my first record. At that time, Paul and Ye Shirong organized a heavy metal band named "High-speed Die Cutting Machine", participated in some underground concerts with the nature of playing tickets, and participated in 1986 "Carlsberg Pop Music Festival".