"Does this band have existing music? Or should we ask them to compose it? Or create it from scratch?"
"I fell in love with one of their songs. Using their song, we re-arranged it and wrote lyrics."
After a long flight of more than ten hours, the plane landed at Charles de Gaulle Airport. The three of them dragged their luggage and chatted while walking. After leaving the airport and getting into a taxi, Yan Zhu sat in the co-pilot and told the driver the address in simple French. Since he was in
They had already gone to bed on the plane, so the three of them were in good spirits and went directly to the agreed upon location.
In Beijing, Wang Ai had already contacted the people from the Era band, and the other party directly invited Wang Ai and his team to their recording studio. After a while of greetings, Wang Ai explained the purpose of his visit in detail. This time, all members of the other band's band were present, not that
How big this business is is mainly out of curiosity. Most of their music has a certain religious and soul color, which makes it difficult for people to associate it with a popular football team, and it is not rock music.
Wang Ai carefully explained his purpose of coming and the purpose of the music selection. Unexpectedly, one of the members immediately objected. This is because this purebred Frenchman hates Germany very much. Of course, he may also intend to raise his status and ask for more money.
No. In short, the first day of contact was not smooth. Band leader Eric LaVey kindly asked Wang Ai to wait for a day while they discussed it.
This time, the three of them had nothing to do in the afternoon, and it was hard to sleep, otherwise they would not be able to sleep at night. If they were coming to Paris for a short trip and returning to China, they could work and rest according to Chinese time, but after this, it would not be until winter.
Wang Ai will stay in Germany during the break, so he still has to adapt to European time as soon as possible.
Therefore, the three of them actually went to the Champs Elysées in the afternoon, and looked around at the famous scenic spots along the way. Chirac is still the president of France now, and this powerful politician also allowed France to maintain Charles de Gaulle.
"Arrogant" since the times, France is the only European power that has not joined NATO and has a friendly attitude towards China. At the same time, France currently has relatively few immigrants, so the public security and environment are good.
After enjoying a not-so-authentic French meal in the evening, the three of them returned to the hotel to rest. The next day, their spirits were locked up and they reunited with the Era band. In fact, the other party called yesterday afternoon and explained that the member was
I felt uncomfortable for a while, but I did not refuse this cooperation. In fact, what musician would refuse his fans? A group of admirers who have traveled thousands of miles have also expanded into new areas.
This time the two parties had a good conversation, and the other party asked curiously about the situation of the young people in Tubingen. Wang Ai gave a detailed introduction, and then asked them to play the recording. As a result, the other party said that they could play directly, so Ai Rui, the soul of the band,
Eric played a demo on the piano. Now the band Era had just released an album. After listening to it, Wang Ai was noncommittal, so Eric took out the upcoming second album to demonstrate to Wang Ai, until it came to "The Mass"
While singing, Wang Aicai nodded with satisfaction.
Since it is a song in an album that has not yet been released, the signing and cooperation this time is a little more troublesome. If it has been released, it is very simple, and you don’t even tell the band as long as it is not making a profit. But if it is not released, it will involve
There was a copyright issue. So both parties temporarily found legal assistants. There was a law firm downstairs from Era's recording studio, and Wang Ai directly called the legal department of the Tübingen Youth Club.
A law classmate from the University of Bingen, good quality, low price, and enthusiastic about work.
Wang Ai's side promised not to sell lyrics, compositions and their adaptations until the other side's new album is released. After the other side's album is released, the Tübingen Youth Club needs to state in the team song that the music is composed by the Era band. Wang Ai's side has paid
For a price of 5,000 euros, he obtained the permanent rights to adapt this song, but the direction could only be a team song.
Whether the price is high or low, it is completely within the range of Wang Ai and Tubingen Youth, and it is even slightly lower. Because Era promised that if the adaptation is suitable in the future, they can rush to Tubingen.
It's okay to make a debut or hold a concert.
After bidding farewell to Era, Wang Ai did not return to Tübingen immediately because another guest he invited was about to arrive. This is a Liverpool native named Gerry Marsden. Anyone who knows this name
Not much, just an ordinary British musician. Everyone knows just one song he adapted, the world's most successful team song "You'll Never Walk Alone". This song was used by Elvis Presley and the Beatles
It has been sung by everyone, and it is also a classic, but it did not stand out among the ranks of team songs. Only the version adapted by Marsden was finally spontaneously selected by Liverpool fans among dozens of golden songs that were played during the game.
, and eventually became popular around the world.
Therefore, Wang Ai specially invited this old singer when he was in Beijing, intending to let him recreate the magic. In addition to retaining the rhythm and soul blues style of The Mass, he also enhanced some subjective lyricism. This world's original
There are countless music masters, but he is the only one who can be as successful as Marsden, even if his reputation is not great. That is just because the club is a business after all, and in the eyes of the decision-makers, the popularity of the team song
The level of attention is far less crazy than that of the fans.
Marsden, who is 50 years old this year, is a very imposing fat old British man. In addition to being a musician, he is also a successful businessman. The success of "You'll Never Walk Alone" is his greatest pride in life, but it is also his only success.
The works that left their names in the history of music made him a little unwilling. It’s not that he didn’t try to compose for other teams, but unfortunately they were not very good. When he was invited to Brazil this time, he always felt inexplicable along the way.
Somewhat funny.
"Hi, Dr. Wang!" Marsden saw Wang and Ai as soon as he arrived at the hotel door.
"Know me?" Wang Ai said in surprise.
"Why don't you know me? I also watched the World Cup. Oh, yes, I didn't watch your game live until the second game. You know, watching the game in the middle of the night is very hard. In short, don't underestimate the World Cup silver boots.
To increase your popularity, don’t forget, this is the center of world football.”
"Okay." Wang Ai smiled and stretched out his hand: "Thank you for coming."
Marsden held hands, suddenly looked up at the sky, and murmured: "I remembered, I remembered why I found it funny. Do you see this: a Chinese investor in a German football club invited an Englishman to come
Adapting a French song as a team anthem, this Chinese is still the silver boot in the World Cup in Japan and South Korea. Look, a team anthem that has not yet qualified is a collaboration between seven countries."
Wang Ai laughed loudly and invited him to sit in the hotel's cafe. Musk was still chattering: "I think your fans must feel very, very strange about this process, and they will never have the confidence to let a British person adapt it.
It’s so strange that a song that has not yet been published in France should be used as the anthem of a German club. You have to know that the cultural differences between our three countries are huge, even if I am Marsden. To be honest, this task is very difficult!
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This chapter has been completed!