Word: cheung
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...Mabel Cheung's Beijing Rocks throws down the gauntlet to Hong Kong. By using the young and restless generation?specifically, determinedly unambitious underground rock singers who want music, not Mao?Cheung questions China's new-order identity struggle and serves up a premise that's hard to refute: Hong Kong is passE, Beijing is today and that shift will dictate China's thereafter...
...rock star and groupie: namely, dysfunctional and bordering on the catastrophic. "There are a hundred ways to die," Yang muses. "Dating a rock singer is one of them." Then Michael appears, gets a place in Road's band and develops one in his heart for Yang. The performances, like Cheung's style, are measured and mature: Geng Le's got depth, Shu Qi stands out in italics and Wu finds a previously hidden range...
...what does an LMF song have that you can't get in a bubblegum-smacking Kelly Chan tune? "They say what the young want to say," says Cheung Chi Wai, a 29-year-old photographer who has worked with the band. "It's not about foul language. The young generation gets the lyrics because they've had the same experience." Twenty-nine-year-old lyricist and rapper Chan Kwong-yan, a.k.a. M.C. Yan, wants to make music that reflects the way people really talk. "We use a lot of Cantonese street slang in our songs. Canto-pop love songs...
...sound-padded back room, Davy crouches in front of a drum set. Even sitting down he seems tall, but it may be just his hair, long and gelled straight up as though he's falling from a plane. A studio musician for pop stars like Kelly Chan and Leslie Cheung, Davy is the only LMFer who earns a living wage with his music. "I do pop music only for the money," Davy says, looking around the room, his neck tattooed with two dice rolling a hard eight. "But here it's my music. Here we do what we want...
...group of votaries rented a minibus and trailed him from one Taiwan concert to the next. (In return, each year around his birthday, Lau attends parties thrown by his fan clubs.) If fans don't stalk the stars, the insatiable paparazzi do. "They follow me everywhere," says Leslie Cheung. "I don't even put my litter outside the house anymore. People try to find things and sell them...