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Dear Frankie,

謝謝你的回應。不過正如Michael叔叔所言, "這50個名字的巨星樂隊都由一位著名歌手寫一篇有關這一位星的特質、受人尊敬愛戴的地方，真是很有意思及珍貴.........."
當然﹐知道你是Queen的超級fans當然不會對你為他們不值而覺得奇怪啦。A Night at the Opera是我當年接觸他們的第一張黑膠﹐是後期的事了﹐朋友告知這是Art Rock, 我才知搖滾都有這麼多種。Bohemian Rhapsody 更是極品﹐特別它的和聲﹐及帶有歌劇的味道。現今玩band的朋友也真的不妨從這歌取取經。

Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen)



Is this the real life
Is this just fantasy
Caught in a landslide
No escape from reality
Open your eyes
Look up to the skies and see
I'm just a poor boy,I need no sympathy
Because I'm easy come, easy go,
A little high, little low,
Anyway the wind blows, doesn't really matter to me,
To me

Mama, just killed a man,
Put a gun against his head,
Pulled my trigger, now he's dead,
Mama, life had just begun,
But now I've gone and thrown it all away
Mama oooh,
Didn't mean to make you cry
If I'm not back again this time tomorrow
Carry on, carry on, as if nothing really matters

Too late, my time has come,
Sends shivers down my spine
Body's aching all the time,
Goodbye everybody, I've got to go
Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth
Mama oooh (any way the wind blows)
I don't want to die,
I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all

I see a little silhouetto of a man,
Scaramouche, scaramouche will you do the Fandango
Thunderbolt and lightning, very very frightening me
Galileo,Galileo,
Galileo Galileo
Galileo figaro, Magnifico
But I'm just a poor boy and nobody loves me
He's just a poor boy from a poor family
Spare him his life from this monstrosity
Easy come easy go, will you let me go
Bismillah! No, we will not let you go, let him go
Bismillah! We will not let you go, let him go
Bismillah! We will not let you go, let me go
Will not let you go, let me go
Will not let you go let me go
No, no, no, no, no, no, no
Mama mia, mama mia, mama mia let me go
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me, for me, for me

So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye
So you think you can love me and leave me to die
Oh baby, can't do this to me baby
Just gotta get out, just gotta get right out of here

Nothing really matters,
Anyone can see,
Nothing really matters, nothing really matters to me,

Any way the wind blows....

Dear Chris,

Sorry for late response to this topic! After reading, I found it is interesting. I totally agree with Christine that why doesn't have "Queen" on the list. Freddie is the most important artist who affects me too much and "A Night at the Opera" is the most important Ablum in my house. I still remembered that I picked up my dictionary to check the jargons written in "Bohemian Rhapsody" after I first heard this song in "Eric Ng" - radio special of late 70's called "Golden Melody". Totally support to make "Queen" on the list again!!! For Eagles, Clapton, I don't surprise that they are not on the list. As to compare with Beatles, Stones, Jimi Hendrix...etc, Eagles and Clapton are little boys. However, it shouldn't have Madonna!!!

Rgds,
Frankie (Capo)

Rock and Roll 50週歲﹐似乎外國推出有很多商品作為紀念。剛收到Newsletter﹐華納會推出一套5張的History Of Rock And Roll DVD﹐頗為吸引﹐不知何時會運來香港。
Disc One:
Ep 1. "Rock 'n' Roll Explodes"
Ep 2. "Good Rockin' Tonight"

Disc Two:
Ep 1. "Britian Invades, America Fights Back"
Ep 2. "The Sounds of Soul"

Disc Three:
Ep 1. "Plugging In"
Ep 2. "My Generation"

Disc Four:
Ep 1. "Guitar Heroes"
Ep 2. "The '70s: Have a Nice Decade"

Disc Five:
Ep 1. "Punk"
Ep 2. "Up From the Underground"

節目談及Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, Little Richard等早期的Rock N Roll巨星﹐Rock N Roll怎樣影響美國膚色界限﹐英國音樂及披頭四旋風入侵美國﹐美國Motown音樂如何確定自家的音樂風格。更會談及騷靈音樂巨星如Otis Redding, Marvin Gaye, James Brown, Aretha Franklin等。當然更不能少的是結他英雄﹐70年代﹐崩音樂﹐街頭音樂如何成為主流音樂等topic﹐所以Led Zeppelin﹐Jerry Lee Lewis﹐Madonna﹐Joni Mitchell﹐Ozzy Osbourne﹐Tom Petty﹐Pink Floyd﹐Iggy Pop﹐Elvis Presley﹐Public Enemy﹐The Ramones﹐Red Hot Chili Peppers﹐B.B. King﹐Little Richard﹐Neil Young﹐Run DMC﹐Smokey Robinson﹐The Yardbirds﹐The Sex Pistols﹐Talking Heads﹐The Temptations﹐Van Halen﹐U2﹐Muddy Waters﹐The Who﹐Carlos Santana 的出現﹐一定是少不了。
有空的話﹐去看看。

http://www2.warnerbros.com/web/all/us/sweepstakes/enter.jsp?sid=rocknroll&show=SWEEPSTAKES

Yahoo也有特別的網頁篇幅來介紹Rock N Roll 50年。

http://launch.yahoo.com/promos/50yearsofrock/

當中有很多我的最愛經典MV收看呢, 如Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody (1975) , Van Halen - Jump (1983) , A-ha - Take On Me (1985) , Dire Straits -
Money For Nothing (1985) , Robert Palmer - Addicted To Love (1986) , Bjork - It's Oh So Quiet (1995)

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Just The Way You Are及She's Always The Woman也是我的至愛, 另一首我的推介是來自1980年52nd Street 大碟內的Honesty, 不過首歌同Billy Joel便不太配襯, 這是一首曲及詞也很好的歌,但是其後billy joel被控這歌是抄襲的,於是這曲便不再被收錄Billy Joel - Greatest Hits Vol. 1-2精選內.




Honesty

If you search for tenderness
It isn't hard to find
You can have the love you need to live
But if you look for truthfulness
You might just as well be blind
It always seems to be so hard to give

Honesty is such a lonely word
Everyone is so untrue
Honesty is hardly ever heard
And mostly what I need from you

I can always find someone
To say they sympathize
If I wear my heart out on my sleeve
But I don't want some pretty face
To tell me pretty lies
All I want is someone to believe

Honesty is such a lonely word
Everyone is so untrue
Honesty is hardly ever heard
And mostly what I need from you

I can find a lover
I can find a friend
I can have security
Until the bitter end
Anyone can comfort me
With promises again
I know, I know

When I'm deep inside of me
Don't be too concerned
I won't ask for nothin' while I'm gone
But when I want sincerity
Tell me where else can I turn
Because you're the only one that I depend on

Honesty is such a lonely word
Everyone is so untrue
Honesty is hardly ever heard
And mostly what I need from you

billy joel 亦係我既favorite。
佢係少數我為左找一首佢既歌而落真金買左你提過既精選碟當中。
當時無減價﹐所以盛惠３０美金。
我想找既歌叫《The Longest Time》﹐係純人聲演譯﹐
絕對係想唱accapella者值得參考既歌。

既然買左隻碟﹐當然要聽過夠本。
結果俾我發現除左成名作《Piano Man》﹐
以前歐陽德勛成日播既《Just The Way You Are》外﹐
尚有一首係我Top Three English Songs Favorite。
就係《She's Always The Woman》。

如果想聽billy joel者﹐《She》係我既必定推介﹐
溫拿原來都翻唱過﹐由譚詠麟演譯﹐總覺得欠了一點……

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Dear Lungfoo2001,
我想這特刊內的50個重要名字/組合中﹐最重要猶如Michael叔叔早前所說"這個名單就是由55位響噹噹音樂人，包括歌手，樂手，樂評人，唱片公司創立人..所組成的評審團在125個提名名單中投票推選，由著名會計師行'Ernst & Young'作審核選出這50個不朽名字........... ” 內裡每個名人對這50個名字所寫的文章才是重要的﹐所謂識英雄重英雄。說真的50年內選50個名字實在太少了﹐所以名單真的不能滿足每個人的要求。但畢竟這50個名字﹐都真的很經典。
話說你講開Billy Joel﹐我喜歡他的歌不太多﹐大概20首之內吧﹐但我所想提及的是一首﹐可能不是熱門歌吧﹐但卻是很有特色。很多年前﹐港台DJ伍家廉的一個訪問節目﹐找來一位當紅歌手﹐並請他推介他的一首至愛金曲﹐當日的嘉賓是林子祥﹐他便介紹了Billy Joel以下的一首歌。來自77年Strangers大碟內的Scenes From An Italian Restaurant﹐其後買來1985年出版收錄這歌的Billy Joel - Greatest Hits Vol. 1-2 CD至今﹐對這歌仍甚為喜愛。不知怎的﹐90年代﹐聽了林憶蓮的“芝加哥的故事” ﹐直覺上總有點類同。




芝加哥的故事 (林憶蓮)




Scenes From An Italian Restaurant (Billy Joel)



A bottle of white, a bottle of red
Perhaps a bottle of rose instead
We'll get a table near the street
In our old familiar place
You and I--face to face

A bottle of red, a bottle of white
It all depends on your appetite
I'll meet you any time you want
In our Italian Restaurant.

Things are okay with me these days
Got a good job, got a good office
Got a new wife, got a new life
And the family's fine
We lost touch long ago
You lost weight
I did not know
You could ever look so good after
So much time.

I remember those days hanging out
At the village green
Engineer boots, leather jackets
And tight blue jeans
Drop a dime in the box play the
Song about New Orleans
Cold beer, hot lights
My sweet romantic teenage nights

Brenda and Eddie were the popular steadies
And the king and the queen of the prom
Riding around with the car top down and the radio on
Nobody looked any finer
Or was more of a hit at the Parkway Diner
We never knew we could want more than that out of life
Surely Brenda and Eddie would always know how to survive.

Brenda and Eddie were still going steady in the summer of '75
When they decided the marriage would be at the end of July
Everyone said they were crazy
"Brenda you know you're much too lazy
Eddie could never afford to live that kind of life."
But there we were wavin' Brenda and Eddie goodbye.

They got an apartment with deep pile carpet
And a couple of paintings from Sears
A big waterbed that they bought with the bread
They had saved for a couple of years
They started to fight when the money got tight
And they just didn't count on the tears.

They lived for a while in a very nice style
But it's always the same in the end
They got a divorce as a matter of course
And they parted the closest of friends
Then the king and the queen went back to the green
But you can never go back there again.

Brenda and Eddie had had it already
By the summer of '75
From the high to the low
To the end of the show
For the rest of their lives
They couldn't go back to the greasers
The best they could do was pick up the pieces
We always knew they would both find a way to get by
That's all I heard about Brenda and Eddie
Can't tell you more than I told you already
And here we are wavin' Brenda and Eddie goodbye.

A bottle of red, and bottle of white
Whatever kind of mood you're in tonight
I'll meet you anytime you want
In our Italian Restaurant.

其實除左無queen﹐無eagles﹐仲無選eric clapton同santana呢。

唔算santana情有可原﹐（雖然santana係我第二最愛）但無選eric clapton實在真係一個大問題。唔同係英國出生既佢真係入唔到殿堂﹖話晒都係一代結他之神呢。

另外無稔到elton john排名會咁後﹐billy joel直頭無名……

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另一位搖擺巨星﹐便是Buddy Holly, 生於1936年, 與Big Bopper, Ritchie Valens死於一場1959年的空難, 享年只是22歲. Don McLean的American Pie便是向他致敬。


以下節錄Michael叔叔早前的介紹

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原 名 Charles Hardin Holley 的 Buddy Holly 在1936 年9月7日 出 世，年 輕 時 的Buddy Holly 和 他 的 樂 隊Crickets 已 是 非 常 受 人 歡迎；Buddy Holly 對 後 來 樂 壇 最 大 的 影 響 就 是 他 可 最 先 組 成自 己 樂 隊、自 己 寫 作 及 唱 自 己 作 品 的 音 樂 天 才。 在 Don McLean 'American Pie' 的 身 一 段 歌 詞 也 講 出Buddy Holly 在 1959年2 月 3 日, 一 個 寒 冷 的2 月 份 一 次 飛 機 意 外 中 死 去，死 時 才22歲 半，同 機 一 同 死 去 的 歌 手 有Richie Valens 及 The Big Bopper, 就 是 'American Pie' 歌 詞 提 到 的 'The Three Men I Admire Most'，1959年2月3日Don Mclean 講 的 'The Day The Music Died' 。Buddy Holly 最 令 人 回 味 的 作 品 有 'That'll Be The Day' 、'Peggy Sue' 、 'It Doesn't Matter Anymore' 及 'It's So Easy' 等。
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Peggy Sue (Buddy Holly)



1976及1977年Linda Ronstadt便曾把以下兩曲翻唱.

That'll Be The Day (Buddy Holly)



It's So Easy (Buddy Holly)



It Doesn't Matter Anymore (Buddy Holly)



1981年Teresa Carpio 便曾於首張粵語大碟把It's Doesn't Matter Anymore改成天光天黑記住你。

天光天黑記住你 (Teresa Carpio)



His Official Wed:

http://www.buddyholly.com

另一個經典會是Everly Brothers。他們分別是Don及Phil Everly。
聽Michael叔叔說﹐他們的二部合唱﹐影響了整個樂壇﹐更深深影響了60年代的Simon & Garfunkel。他們的雙親Ike & Margaret是Country歌手﹐而兄弟倆的歌唱風格揉合了Country﹐Pop及Rock N Roll。五十年代中﹐他們就遷到Nashbille﹐深深受到Rock N Roll的吸引﹐1957年憑著首張細碟Bye Bye Love打上了美國流行榜第2位﹐並停留該位置4星期﹐接下來的第二張細碟Wake Up Little Suzie﹐打上第一位﹐並停留了4星期。
七個月後第四張細碟﹐也是我們很熟悉的All I Have To Do IS Dream停留榜首5星期﹐從此他們的歌唱事業﹐便平步青雲。八十年代Bee Gees的弟弟Andy Gibb與豪門恩怨的女主角Victoria Principle打得火熱時﹐也曾灌錄此曲。

All I Have To Do Is Dream (Everly Brothers)




他們除了上列的歌曲外﹐還有Devoted To You﹐Take A Message To Mary﹐Till I Kissed You﹐Let It Be Me等等。1960年由Cadence唱片轉投Warner Brothers唱片的懷抱﹐聽說﹐他們是Warner唱片的第一個藝人。這時期便有我們很熟識的Crying In The Rain了﹐但自此事業便不像早期那樣輝煌了。

Devoted To You (Everly Brothers)





Crying In The Rain (Everly Brothers)




八十年代﹐從港台一個舊歌節目聽來﹐當時的主持人便曾說﹐他們兄弟倆因意見分歧而拆夥﹐最後落得在報紙上﹐刊登一段小廣告教結他。84年Everly Brothers復合﹐簽約Mercury公司﹐並由Paul McCartney寫了一首On The Wings Of A Nightingale給他們﹐但兩張大碟的合約滿了之後﹐他們便沒有再出新碟了。 最近Simon & Garfunkel的concert便請來他們作特別嘉賓。
香港時有很多人翻唱他們的熱門作品﹐但卻甚少彈奏及演唱他們的風格。例如Devoted To You便較像後期Carly Simon和James Taylor的版本﹐而Crying In The Rain, 便較像70年代初的一隊One Hit Wonder組合Peter Paul & Marty的版本了。

Crying In The Rain (Peter, Paul & Marty)