Stephen Chow also likes this song very much. In 20 13, I filmed "Demon Journey to the West" and still took this song as the theme song. Master Xing even personally revised the lyrics of "The Love of My Life" for the Mandarin version, which was sung by Shu Qi.
Back to 1994, Liu Zhenwei invited Lu Guanting to visit the class in Xi 'an. The director said he must tell him a story in person and let him write a song for a Chinese odyssey.
At that time, Lu Guanting would never have thought that this trip to the northwest would produce one of the most widely sung and classic songs in all his works in the future.
When 16 or 17 years old, Lu Guanting made some money by washing dishes hard in the United States. He bought the most expensive L5 Gibson in a guitar shop and spent 1500 dollars, which was a huge sum in the 1960s.
Maybe it was decided at that time that music would be his lifelong career.
1977, 27-year-old Lu Guanting returned from Cornwall Music School. He wants to make a splash in Hong Kong music, as long as someone listens to his songs or can support himself. He is not a rich man, but he doesn't need to make music for two meals.
At that time, Lu Guanting a face of happy. He is small and thin, and he is really a bit ordinary in the crowd. He has a gift for composing music, but he can't write lyrics because he has dyslexia.
In the early days of Leslie Cheung and Danny Chan, he had no chance in the music industry, so he sang in the bar of a five-star hotel, during which he met his prince charming.
During the period of the Republic of China, Tang, the great warlord who ruled Yunnan, developed in Hong Kong after liberation. After that, he flourished, and his grandchildren produced two female heroes, one was a famous Hong Kong director art cinema, and the other was a talented woman Tang.
Tang also studied in America. After returning to Hong Kong, she worked in a family business for a while, and then worked in a hotel in Lu Guanting. With her family background and personal ability, she worked as a public relations manager in a hotel.
One day, performing in a bar, the audience was not many, but Don was among them. She took the initiative to strike up a conversation: "Hong Kong people don't like your music."
He replied lightly, "Nothing. Maybe it's the taste. When I get familiar with Hong Kong, they will like me. "
This calm attracted the girl's attention. She recognized his talent, and felt that a man with fame and fortune but perseverance would achieve something one day.
In the long run, Lu Guanting was attracted by this bookish girl. He bought flowers for a beautiful woman, but the girl didn't like them.
Later, Tang was invited to take a walk in the forest park. When the scenery was deep, he got up the courage and took out the prepared necklace. This used to be a romantic bridge, but Tang grabbed the necklace and threw it away, then turned and walked away.
In the eyes of girls, these are all rubbish. It's no use pursuing her to build with materials. She's Don's granddaughter!
Lu Guanting later stopped giving gifts on purpose. What does a declining aristocrat want most?
Make her laugh.
Lu Guanting's face is full of joy, which is a plus. He constantly changing the way to tease Tang Xiao, laugh more natural closer to the distance between two people.
Later, Mrs. Lu said to her husband, "Make me laugh, which means you have brains."
Also, compared with being captured by a vulgar necklace, being attracted by an interesting soul is worthy of Tang's identity. This is the real nobility.
The management of the hotel where the young couple work is very strict, and it is forbidden to have a love relationship between employees. When their date was discovered by the hotel executives, Miss Tang couldn't move, so she had to pack up and leave.
I don't know if it was to comfort this frustrated man, Tang made two decisions: to commit himself to writing lyrics for his lover's music.
Besides, Tang's daughter treats money like dirt, and she really can't stand the name "Lu". Since we are going to travel the Jianghu together in the future, let's change the name of our sweetheart to "Lu Guanting" by the way.
The treasure in the book is a personal hero.
1983, Tang officially entered the music scene as a poet. Thanks to his wife's help, Lu Guanting's career is thriving.
1984, Lu Guanting gained a place in the film industry. He designs music for Love in the City. In the same year, he was a walk-on in the movie The Secret Order of the Best Dating Queen. He plays a subway driver.
What really made him famous was 1985' s Half Love, which was his only starring experience. At the same time, he created the theme song "Happy Honest Man" for the film.
This song has won him a lot of praise in the industry. Since then, it has become his main job to create the theme song and soundtrack for the film, and by the way, he has made guest appearances in some supporting roles in the film, which are basically comedy roles.
In Shen Dianxia's classic film "Prosperity" series, Lu Guanting played Amao in several scenes, but it was very interesting.
Lu Guanting's comic face is a godsend. Together with Wu Junru and Huang Yishan, he made an interesting ghost film "Good Life", which received a good response.
Although Lu Guanting's performance in Hong Kong-made comedy films is remarkable, compared with his musical achievements, he is obviously not at the same level.
He is a third-rate comedian at best, but when it comes to making music, he is definitely qualified to be compared with the top musicians in Hong Kong. He is a first-rate musician.
From 1984 to his retirement in 1988, Lu Guanting did behind-the-scenes music work for hundreds of Hong Kong films, the most representative of which were works by Jing Wong and Stephen Chow. Without him, these films will be eclipsed.
Lu Guanting is responsible for making music designs for gamblers, gamblers, experts in unique skills, new Jingwumen 199 1, animation veyron, Shanghai Gambler 2, truant veyron 3 and shaolin soccer.
Kung Fu originally wanted to invite him out of the mountain, but he refused on the grounds that he was "no longer young".
1989, Chow Yun Fat plays the gambling god AG, and he is domineering. This exclusive BGM was written by Lu Guanting.
199 1, Jet Li plays Huang Feihong, and his appearance BGM was also created by Lu Guanting.
Lu Guanting is more than just a good song. He and Jonathan Lee collaborated on a song "The Past Wind", which still reverberates.
Jiang Yuheng sang his song "Looking Back", enough to eat money for a lifetime;
My brother Leslie Cheung also covered his "Wish a Long Life", and he wrote a classic "Where Are You" for his brother.
There are countless classics, such as Happy Honest Man, Walking with You, Frivolity of Time and so on. He is a well-deserved treasure musician in Hong Kong.
Just like Chen Kaige's Farewell My Concubine, kevin costner's Dancing with the Wolf and Lu Guanting's My Life are both masters.
It took Lu Guanting 22 years to make the ultimate edition of The Love of My Life into a masterpiece handed down from generation to generation.
Lu Guanting said that a good composer must not create with logic, but feel the gift from God with emotion, so that his works can touch people's hearts.
He had dictation problems and was not good at learning since he was a child. He described that the language he received was sometimes like scrambled eggs, completely broken and completely out of touch.
1994, Liu Zhenwei and Lu Guanting are chatting in a hotel room. To be exact, they are talking alone and listening alone.
Qi Fei, the director's passion and saliva, told the love story of Supreme Treasure a hundred times in a few hours, and the audience would applaud. Such a whimsical idea deserves any praise, but it's a pity that Lu Guanting only got one sentence: "Five hundred years of fruitless love".
However, this sentence is enough. Lu Guanting said that it was this sentence that made his hair stand on end.
On the plane back to Hong Kong, he began to compose music for the film, which he wrote that night. After listening to the melody, his wife Tang finished the lyrics the next day.
This song is a classic "Love Life" linked with "A Chinese Odyssey" many years later.
Just before filming, Lu Guanting sent this song to the staff. When Liu Zhenwei was filming the last scene of the tower, his mind was full of the melody of this song. Stephen Chow also insisted on changing the whole nonsense performance. He played against Athena Chu in the form of affectionate drama, which made this period an insurmountable classic.
But the story doesn't end here.
With the advent of the Internet era, a wild talk to the West has caught fire. The melody I love all my life has been integrated into the blood of the film, but it has never caught fire, and sometimes it has even been ignored.
From 65438 to 0998, under the impact of the financial crisis in Hong Kong, the entertainment industry was depressed. At the same time, because Lu Guanting suffers from chemical allergy, he is allergic to formaldehyde in dyes and decoration materials. In severe cases, chest burns and binaural paralysis.
So Lu Guanting and his wife almost retired for more than ten years. They run a "green life store" on Saigon Hill, advocating environmental protection, and almost completely bid farewell to leaving the music circle.
However, during his retirement, Lu Guanting still devoted himself to music and sound research, 8 hours a day. He took out his old songs and listened to them again and again. A song can be listened to more than 65,438+000 times.
Lu Guanting said: Music, especially the songs sung, is the only channel that can directly shock people; Of course, some people will be moved when they see paintings, but music can directly make you cry.
20 16, 22 years after the first edition of Love of My Life was written, 66-year-old Lu Guanting once again brought his guitar and an erhu beside him. The melody is more quaint and melodious, and the sound of musical instruments is crisp. His voice was washed away, integrated with musical instruments, sang all the vicissitudes of life, and the song was endowed with infinite charm.
The Love of My Life can completely conquer the audience with the charm of music itself, without relying on the east wind of Stephen Chow and a Chinese Odyssey. It is a well-deserved classic song handed down from generation to generation.
Lu Guanting summed up the past and said, actors give themselves 70 points, but music can get 100 points.
"The Love of My Life" was later covered in many versions, but Lu Guanting tried his best: my version was the best!
Almost all the famous songs were written by his wife Tang. He often said, "Without a wife, there would be no me, wife first, music second".
If I hadn't met Tang, maybe he could have created many classic music works, but there would never be The Love of My Life.
Perhaps it is because everyone has something they want but can't get, so everyone can resonate with their love for life.
Enter the card at the bottom: the love of Lu Guanting's life; Let's revisit the classics.
It's over!