Friday, May 25, 2007

80's UPLIFT MORALE AND SUPER-CONCERTING

The 80’s was also the time that many people left Hong Kong for other countries due to their uncertainty towards Hong Kong’s situation after the handover. A number of songs were introduced to uplift the morale and strengthen people’s loyalty towards local cultural identity of Hong Kong. The economy of the 80’s was so prosperous that allowed the phenomenon of super-concerting in which performers did 30 or more consecutive concerts at the same location, such as the Hong Kong Coliseum, night after night. The number of concerts jumped from 18 in 1983 to 129 in the 1989 with audience rising from 150 thousand to over one million. The number of concerts held was sometimes used to compare the degree of popularity among various stars and such phenomenon also implied that Hong Kong was experiencing the era of consumption or consumerism.

“Beneath the Lion Mountain” 羅文 "獅子山下
we all meet beneath the Lion Mountain. Happiness comes more often than signs. Tears and sadness are inevitable in our lives. As long as we stay together and gather under the Lion Mountain, we eliminate all discriminations but just live harmoniously with each other

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