The Pasadena Municipal Auditorium has two levels of seating, and the performance stage is also very large. The steps can be used for backup dancers and harmony performances. The semicircular stage in the front is very close to the audience in the front row, and you can reach out and touch it.
The two tickets given by Michael Jackson were located slightly towards the back, on the aisle in more than a dozen rows, which was really the best seat to watch the performance.
Ronald politely asked Diane to sit in the back seat, and he sat next to the aisle. After sitting down, he looked at each other and smiled. There were more than a thousand spectators at the scene, and the atmosphere was already very lively even before the show started.
The seating arrangement is very interesting. Most of the people on Ronald and Diane's side are white spectators wearing elegant dresses, while next to them are black spectators. There are also some black children wearing gaudy red bow ties, which may belong to the actors.
relatives.
Not long after, the curtain opened, and the first person to appear was Lionel Richie. After singing a solo song, he played with the band before his solo career. The black audience had already begun to applaud enthusiastically. Ronald and Dai
An was not familiar with their history, so she had to applaud twice in agreement.
Black artists are more casual. Marvin Gaye, who came on next, simply spent a few minutes introducing the history of black music, and then sang his classic song "What's Going On" from Motown Records. The audience gave him overwhelming applause.
"Marvin should have stayed in Motown and not gone to Columbia, where white people were in power." A young black man across the aisle helped Ronald understand.
However, these black people still show loyalty to their old boss.
After several more singing stars that neither Ronald nor Diane knew, it was finally Michael Jackson's turn. Like Marvin Gaye, he had already switched to other record companies. But this time he was not the only one who came up.
Himself, and his four brothers.
"Jackson 5!" The audience stirred up another frenzy. This was a chorus formed by the Jackson family. Michael wore a diamond-encrusted top, tight nine-point pants, white socks, black leather shoes, and a white diamond-encrusted glove on only one left hand.
Jackson 5 sang their most famous single "I Want You Back". This ignited the common memory of all black people, and they stood up and swayed to the rhythm.
The white audience on Ronald's side did not stand up, but just clapped along with the rhythm.
"Thank you, Jackson 5 is already a piece of history. Next I will sing...my own single."
The band played the intro to MJ's latest single "Billie Jean". Michael Jackson took the black top hat and buckled it on his head, then turned to face the audience and took a preparatory pose.
"Ah...ah..." At this time, the enthusiasm of the white audience was also detonated, and countless white girls at the front desk and behind stood up screaming.
Diane also pulled Ronald by the head, and stood up and cheered because of the atmosphere.
This "Billie Jean" is not a Motown song, and it is also the only single not produced by Motown so far. However, Michael Jackson is now the number one singer on the charts.
Just being able to come to the show gave Motown a lot of face, and a single was not a big problem.
MJ covered his crotch with his white gloves, twisted it quickly, danced at a fast pace, combed his hair, and made the shape of an empty guitar. The emotions of the entire audience were already inflamed by MJ's performance.
"Pah...pah...pah..." MJ used the moonwalk that he had practiced for several months, and watched as he stepped forward, but the person stepped back.
"Ahhhh..." This dance step seemed to detonate explosives. All the women in the audience, regardless of skin color, age, single or married, shouted that they wanted to tear the roof off. Several female audience members in the front row even
I couldn't hold it any longer and wanted to climb up on stage to touch MJ's feet.
Ronald was so disturbed by Diane's scream that he dug his ears. This dance choreography looked so familiar. Did he learn break dancing from Michael Jackson in his previous life?
Ronald noticed that this wave had more white girls screaming, while the black ones were relatively calm.
After MJ left the show, another wave of black celebrities that Ronald didn't know followed. The show was exciting, but the arrangement was not very good. Sometimes the singers would sing more songs when they felt like it, or introduce their old partners.
Except for the blind singer Stevie Wonder, I don’t know anyone else.
Ronald looked at his watch. More than an hour had passed. Just when he was feeling a little tired, soft music sounded, and the spotlight shone back, lighting up the entrance to the city hall. Everyone looked back.
, A figure flashed out of the deserted entrance.
"There are no mountains high enough, no rivers wide enough,
If you need me, call me, no matter where you are, no matter how far away you are,
Baby, call my name and I will rush over..."
A good-looking black singer, with a head of afro black hair, a white diamond-encrusted high-shoulder shirt on the upper body, a black tight-fitting butt-hugging lower body, wearing diamond-encrusted high heels under black stockings, taking sexy steps, imported from
Go to the stage.
Her arrival caused the audience to stand up and applaud. It was the most famous singer since the founding of Motown, Diana Ross, who entered the venue.
Holding a wireless microphone in one hand and a white fur shawl in the other, Diana Ross's superstar aura is unstoppable, like a vortex, attracting all the attention of the audience and stars to her body.
"Oh, this is the style of a superstar. I really like the aura of this kind of singer. I will dress like this if I have the opportunity in the future." Diane Lane was standing next to her, staring closely at Diane walking through the aisle.
Anna Rose, this emotion seems to be jealousy, and it seems to be envy. It is more likely to be a hope that I will be as radiant as that.
Just like a movie can only have one heroine, a concert can only have one female singer.
Diana Ross sang "ain't no mountain high enough", a hit single, which caused the climax of the all-singing concert.
After singing this song, two female singers came onto the stage from both sides, one in a white dress and the other in a red dress. They were the two partners of Diana Ross in the band Supremes. The three singers reunited and became the band Supremes.
Sing for everyone.
As Diana Ross called her old colleagues and friends by name one by one, all the singers from Motown for the past 25 years came on stage and the whole audience started to sing loudly.
The ending scene was so long and nasty that many Motown Records employees, managers, backers, and young singers who had not made their debut jumped on the stage to take photos with the superstars.
Seeing that there was no encore, Ronald quickly pulled Diane to leave first, otherwise there would be a traffic jam.
The two left together with the crowd of many white spectators, jumped into their rented car, and asked the driver to drive to Los Angeles.
Diane was holding Ronald's arm in the back seat. She was very happy today, as if she had become the protagonist of life.
Ronald also smiled at her, "You're wearing makeup today to look like a jazz singer, but you're going to play the role of a rock singer."
"Hmm...what, is the makeup too thick? I can't always draw it well myself."
Diane's lipstick and eye shadow are indeed a bit darker. Girls of this age don't actually need heavy stage makeup.
"It's not bad. 'Streets of Rage' will always match you with a good makeup artist."
Soon the car returned to the hotel, and Ronald took Diane back to the door of the room where Bert and her lived.
"We're here, Diane."
"Good night, Ronnie." Diane took out the room card and shook it. "Then I'll go in."
"Okay, let's see you at the premiere of 'The Naughty Boy'." Ronald turned around and wanted to leave.
"Huh?" Seeing that Ronald wanted to leave, Diane Lane quickly opened the door, "Why don't you come in and sit down?"
"I have to go home and write a script. I have a great time today, Diane." Ronald hugged Diane and kissed her cheek. "Hi, Bert." Ronald said to Bert behind Diane.
Special hello.
"Burt", Diane turned around and saw that it was her father, then turned to Ronald and said, "I will shoot a concert scene at the beginning of 'Streets of Rage', will you come to the set and guide me?"
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"Burt is here, I can't say anything." Ronald waved his hand to the father and daughter, watching Diane bit her lower lip in disappointment, "But I will go to the set to encourage you, remember to call and tell
my time."
"Bye!" Diane waved to him and walked into the room.