DANNY ERA
DANNY CHAN
SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND EXPERIENCE
陈百强：天真与经验之歌
Danny Chan once sang his desire to stay out of the limelight; Anita Mui also sang about her desire to be independent of others’gazes… These were songs of a bygone era; an era of great stars: Wong Ka Kui, Danny Chan, Teresa Tang, Leslie Cheung, Anita Mui, Roman Tam. They couldn’t escape their respective fates. Danny Chan has departed, so has Wong Ka Kui, Leslie Cheung, Teresa Tang, Anita Mui and Roman Tam. An era has ended. We may trace when they appeared, how they garnered fame, but their lives all ended in melancholy. We could say, the 80s is an era of innocence, as well as experience.
陈百强唱过:仍然愿一生一世的欠缺,不思再暴露我于他人前;梅艳芳也唱过:谁愿独立于天地,痛了也让人看,你我却需要在人前被仰望……那是一个远去的年代,都是芳华绝代的明星:黄家驹、陈百强、邓丽君、张国荣、梅艳芳、罗文……都离不开同样的运命.
陈百强走了、黄家驹走了、张国荣走了、邓丽君走了、梅艳芳也走了，罗文走了。那一个时代结束了，若要说为何他们都在那时出现，闯出名堂，但都终于郁郁寡欢，那只可以说，八十年代，既是天真的时代,也是经验的时代。