Rolling Stone Records

Representative artists: Luo Dayou, Sylvia Chang, Chen Sheng, Li Zongsheng, Zhou Huajian, Xin Xiaoqi, Zhao Chuan, Ren Xianqi, Liang Jingru

Speaking of Rolling Stone Records, it can be said that It’s a long story. I believe that every friend who listened to Chinese pop music in the 1980s and 1990s has an inseparable attachment to "The Rolling Stones". In the past 20 years, Rolling Stone Records has not only represented Taiwan's largest local record company, it has also recorded the golden years of the entire Chinese music scene, recording the glory and dreams of a generation...

In 1980, on campus Brothers Duan Zhongtan and Duan Zhongyi, active participants in the folk song movement, founded Rolling Stone magazine. Unsatisfied with simply introducing Western music on its pages, they came up with the idea of ??producing Chinese pop music. Because of this simple original intention, Rolling Stone Records was founded, and the records were distributed by BMG, one of the five major record companies in the world. The original veterans of Rolling Stone included Pan Yueyun, Sylvia Chang and later Qi Yu and Luo Dayou. Singers with great talent and charisma, a tight-knit team with great unity and enthusiasm, and the original and humanistic style of the Rolling Stones created the starting point of the original Rolling Stones. Luo Dayou's "Zhi Hu Zhe Ye" was like an "atomic bomb in the history of pop music", blowing up a black whirlwind in Taiwan and strengthening the determination of the early entrepreneurs of Rolling Stone to continue to explore Chinese pop music. In 1985, the Rolling Stones introduced compact disc technology from Japan and produced the first batch of five CDs. "Echo" became the first CD album by the Rolling Stones and the first in the history of Taiwanese pop music. In 1988, the Rolling Stones established its subsidiary Jushi Music, which has singers such as Lin Longxuan and Zhang Xinzhe. At the same time, fresh blood from Li Zongsheng, Xiao Chong, Chen Sheng, and Zhao Chuan continued to flow. In the late 1980s, the Rolling Stones established Friendly Dog Studio, which launched singers such as Zhao Chuan, Huang Yunling, Zhang Hongliang, and Huang Pinyuan. In 1989, Luo Dayou, who returned from overseas, established the "Music Factory" in Hong Kong, bringing together musicians such as Huang Yaoming, Lin Xi, and Hua Biao to produce records such as "Pearl of the Orient". At the same time, Rolling Stone obtained the production and distribution of Mandarin records by Du Dewei and Anita Mui. right.

Since the mid-1980s, the Rolling Stones have recruited almost the elites of the Hong Kong and Taiwan pop music scene, including Hong Kong Beyond. Producers include Luo Dayou, Chen Sheng, Li Zongsheng, and Xiaochong; for female singers, they have successfully produced Huang Ying. There are albums by Ying Ying, Chen Shuhua, Wa Wa, Xin Xiaoqi, Wan Fang and others; in terms of male singers, Zhao Chuan, Zhou Huajian, Zhang Xinzhe, Jackie Chan, Ma Zhaojun and others have made great achievements. In 1989, Zhang Peiren and producer Jia Minshu founded Moyan Culture, which gathered new rock forces from the mainland. In the early 1990s, they successively released albums by Black Panther, Tang Dynasty, "China Fire 1", Zhang Chu, He Yong and others, achieving unprecedented success. Social influence, the musical connotation and field of the Rolling Stones have been further expanded. At this time, the Rolling Stones had reached the peak of their prosperity.

In the mid-1990s, Leslie Cheung returned to the music scene and signed a contract with the Rolling Stones. With Lin Yilian, Du Dewei and the original elite, the Rolling Stones record lineup was extremely powerful. In 1996, Magic Rock Records was officially registered in Taiwan, and later launched Yang Naiwen, Shunzi, Li Yuhuan, Chen Qizhen and Zhang Zhenyue. As Rolling Stone's Hong Kong brand, "Tornado" has also successfully released Mandarin albums by Karen Mok, Beyond and others. The birth of young singers such as Su Huilun, Liu Ruoying, Xu Huaiyu and other young singers hinted at the Rolling Stones' subsequent idol route.

In 2000, as the economic depression worsened, the Rolling Stones integrated its various production companies, and the "Tornado" came to an end. At the end of the same year, Zhang Peiren, the founder of Magic Rock Records, left Magic Rock. In 2001, "Magic Rock" also came to an end. Later, the Rolling Stones established Warring States Music in Beijing and a distribution department in Shanghai, turning to the mainland for development. Times have changed, and the mainstays of the Rolling Stones have faded out or left. At present, Rolling Stone Records retains the original cast members such as Zhou Huajian, Ren Xianqi, Liang Jingru, Xin Xiaoqi, and Mayday. In addition, it has made Xu Shaoyang, Li Wei and others famous in the form of F4 idol drama. But today's Rolling Stones are no longer the same as they were back then. The brand connotation of "Rolling Stones" has no successor. The most important thing is that the powerful creative power of Rolling Stones that once stood out among the others has disappeared, and it is no different from ordinary record companies.

Twenty years of spring and autumn are like a dream, and the rolling stone is like a declining nobleman dragging his tired body, accumulating hope, waiting for rebirth...