The following are some of their detailed information:
The Winner Five: Alan Tam, Zhong Zhentao, Peng Jianxin, Chen You, Yip Chi-keung
Leading singer: Alan Tam (Alan) - also Named "Alan", collectively known as Principal Tan, forever 25 years old, forever...
Lead singer: Zhong Zhentao (Kenny) - also known as "Ah B", forever 25 years old Ah B, forever An all-around musician.
Lead guitarist: Peng Jianxin (Bennett) - also known as "Jianzi", forever 25 years old, always happy.
Drummer: Chen Friend (Antony also known as Friend Chan), forever 25 years old, forever a good friend in front of and behind the scenes.
Bass guitarist: Danny Ye Zhiqiang (Danny) - also known as "Ah Qiang", forever 25 years old , forever happy honest people.
Band introduction
Winner Band, a youth group composed of five long-haired young people, became very popular. In addition to releasing records, they also made TV specials and movies. , is really known to all ages. Let us remember their names, the "Winner" band composed of 5 people including Alan Tam, Zhong Zhentao, and Peng Jianxin. After they disbanded, Alan Tam, Zhong Zhentao, and Peng Jianxin all achieved quite good personal achievements.
Wenner formed the army in 1973, formerly known as "Loosers" (Losers). At that time, the lineup included Alan Tam, Yip Chi-keung, Pang Kin-xin, and the brothers Chen Baixiang. Unfortunately, the group disbanded before their ambitions were fulfilled. , completely fulfilled the fate of being named "Loosers".
The indomitable Allen spent a lot of effort to find Chen You and Ah B to reorganize a new group in 1973, named "Wynners", the first album "Listen to the Wynners" was released to great response, and the five boys immediately became the super idols pursued by young people in Hong Kong. With a large number of fans as a foundation, they released three albums in one go the following year, including their film debut " The original soundtrack of "Caile de Coral". Subsequently, they starred in the movie "Chasing and Jumping" and their famous song "sha-la-la-la-la" became very popular in Taiwan, and the album of the same name became a big hit.
Like many popular bands, Wenner has faced the crisis of disintegration several times. The soul figures Allen and B have also been rumored to be at odds many times under the overly caring eyes of the media. Regardless of the truth, the two Later, they did develop separately, each with his own life and outstanding appearance.
The English name of "Winner Band" is Winners, which means the winners. Its members include Alan Tam, Zhong Zhentao, Peng Jianxin, and Chen You. , Ye Zhiqiang, the first two are now well-known seniors in the entertainment industry. Conflicts and disagreements among members caused "Winner" to face the crisis of disintegration several times, but in the end they did not part ways. The band did not officially announce their disbandment to the outside world, so they reunited every few years. 2007 is the 33rd anniversary of the "Winner Band", and the Five Tigers performed lively at the Hong Kong Coliseum on the first day of the new year. 13 games in a row, every game was full.
Records
1974: "Listen to the wynners"
1975: "Love and other pieces"
1975: "Under the lion rock"
1975: "Caile de Coral" (Philips 6380004)
1976: "Same kind of magic" (Philips 6380006)
p>1976: "The wynners' special tv hits 75-76"
1977: "Making it"
1977: "The Face Is Blind" ( Polydor 2427015)
1978: "Chasing. Rush. run. Jump. "Peng" (Philips 6380013)
Historical information
The original six people
I recently interviewed Pato Leung, the former manager of the Wenner Band,
It is indeed rich in information and fans will definitely enjoy it. According to Pato, the Wenner Band as we know it today is composed of five people including Allen, Ah B, Chen You, Jianzi, and Ah Qiang.
But in fact, when the Winner band was first formed, there was a member named Andrew Oh.
Andrew Oh
Andrew Oh was originally a main member of a Singaporean band called Establishment, also known as the "Macho Man" band. The Establishment band at that time also originally belonged to Pato Leung. However, due to issues with their residence permits, the members could not stay in Hong Kong for a long time, so they had no choice but to return to Singapore.
Join Winner
But Andrew Oh asked Pato Leung to let him stay because he had to support the family's finances. In order to make money to support his family, and on the other hand, he also hoped to postpone his military service, so Pato asked Andrew Oh to join the Winner Band in 1973.
However, before that, the predecessor of Wenner Band was originally a band called Loosers. The Loosers were officially formed around the end of 1969. The team members at that time included Chen Baixiang, Chen Baishen, Jian Zai, Aqiang, Chen You, and Alan Tam.
Living together in North Point
Chan Baixiang, Chen Baishen, Peng Jianxin, and Ah Qiang shared a floor on Electrical Appliance Road in North Point and lived together, and Chen You also lived nearby. Although Alan Tam lived far away, because everyone had the same goals, they collaborated to form the Loosers band and participated in many singing competitions. Unfortunately, the results were not as good as expected.
It just so happened that Pato Leung also lived in Electric Road, and we were neighbors. It can be said that under God's arrangement, Pato Leung began a cooperative relationship with the Loosers band.
The acquaintance process
Pato has known each member of the Loosers band for a long time. It turns out that Chen Baixiang was involved in a scandal back then. He was in love with the unsuccessful Miss Hong Kong Miss Ho Sau Man. But Mabel already has a boyfriend, but she falls in love with A Le. Mabel's boyfriend was not convinced, so he discussed the matter with Dong Mengni, the editor-in-chief of Ming Pao Weekly at the time. Dong Mengni also reported that one of the band members tried hard to win the beauty back. At that time, Pato was the chief writer of the entertainment section of China Mail, an English newspaper. Since he was very interested in this matter, after some investigation, he found out that Alat Chen Baixiang belonged to his neighbor. Pato had already participated in the work of record producer and made Chen Meiling famous. Chen Baixiang, recognizing heroes and valuing heroes, asked both parties to cooperate.
Since ‘The 1st Folk Album’ sold well, and ‘The 2nd Folk Album’ made Chen Meiling famous and successful, Chen Baixiang also hoped to record a record for the Loosers band. Pato was finally willing to listen to them practice singing in their practice room, and discovered that these young men had great potential, which also opened up the opportunity for them to collaborate in the future. Officially signed
The members of The Loosers were still Chen Baixiang, Chen Baishen, Peng Jianxin, A Qiang, Chen You, and Alan Tam. Andrew Oh and Ah B still didn’t join that year. After the Loosers won the 1971 Beach Pop Festival, Pato officially signed a contract with them and arranged other performances.
In 1972, Pato personally led the Loosers band to perform in Okinawa. At the same time, Pato also arranged for the Loosers to sign a contract with Polydor Records (the predecessor of PolyGram) and arrange for recording.
Temporarily disbanded
However, the Loosers band and Polydor are not destined to be together. After several missed opportunities, Alan Tam went to Singapore to continue his studies, while Chen Baixiang also went to the Middle East to do business. At this time, the development of the Loosers band also came to an end and they announced their temporary disbandment.
Pato also has an interesting anecdote when talking about this. At that time, Chen Baixiang and Alan Tam were born with the personalities of anti-fighting stars. Once they performed a Tea Dance performance at a seafood restaurant in a nightclub in North Point. During the break, Pato Chan and Alan Tam actually caught fish and lobsters in the fish pond. Pato was really angry!
Reforming the band
While Pato was arranging performances for foreign bands in Singapore, he stopped by to visit Alan Tam.
Alan Tam expressed that he was very depressed while studying in Singapore, so he hoped that Pato could arrange to reorganize the band.
Since the two brothers Chen Baixiang are already working in the Middle East, the remaining brothers Jianzi, Chen You and Aqiang are doing casual jobs for other bands and their income is meager. In order to reorganize the band, Pato thought it was time to change the members of the Loosers band, so he asked Ah B to join.
Ah B joined
It turns out that in 1971 and 2, Pato and Ah B also tried to cooperate. Back then, Ah B was a member of a band, Sergeant-Majors, and once won a TVB band competition. Pato signed a contract with the Sergeant-Majors band, but due to disagreements with several members of the band, they announced their disbandment. After discussing with Ah B, Pato decided to join Allen's band.
In 1973, the Wynners band was officially formed. The lineup at that time was Alan Tam, Ah B, Kin Tsai, Chen You, Ah Qiang, and Andrew Oh.
Since Andrew Oh’s residence permit could not be extended, he had no choice but to return to Singapore. After discussing with the members of Winner, Pato decided to keep Winner as a five-piece band.
Since the Wenner Band performed in Wan Chai Downtown and other places, their playing skills have become more and more proficient and improved. After the members worked hard, Pato discussed recording matters with Norman Cheng, an important member of Polydo Records.
The record became famous
The first album recorded by the Wenner Band was "Sunshine Lover", with Ah B singing the lead. As for the B-Side, it’s ‘Would You Laugh’ with Allen singing the lead. "Sunshine Lover" soon became the number one song on the local pop charts. From this time on, local fans began to pay attention to the Winners. The following song, 'Sha-La-La-La-La', stayed at the top of the charts for several weeks. The Winner Band has officially established a certain status in the local music scene.
Although the Wenner Band also had some TV performances before this, they were only guest appearances. Pato has a unique vision and hopes that Wenner Band can have its own independent program. At that time, the two TV stations didn't like it, and they were only willing to arrange some non-prime time to show it. Because the TV station is still not confident about a band hosting a big independent show. Therefore, both parties agreed that if there is no breakthrough in ratings within three weeks, the show will be cut, that is, cut in half.
Wynner Weekly
At the same time, the Wynners released the band's first album 'Listen to the Wynners'. Since the local music scene at that time was still dominated by Mandarin songs and Cantonese songs, many people did not dare to be optimistic about English songs.
But after the English album ‘Listen to the Wynners’ was released, it shocked the entire music world. The album was released not long ago and quickly sold more than 10,000 copies. The sales volume of 10,000 copies at that time was equivalent to today's platinum record number.
In the two years from 1973 to 1975, the Wenner Band quickly became the idols of young people. TVB also began to pay attention to the Winner band, and also sent people to lobby Pato, hoping that Ke Yi could poach Li and join TVB.
The album is amazing
Pato got help from Yun Yingqi, and after overcoming all difficulties, he officially prepared and planned a TV show called Wynners Weekly for the Wynners band, which will be broadcast every Monday night on Li's TV broadcast. At that time, Pato was personally involved in planning the program together with the TV station staff and ***. They also organized a fan meeting for Wen Na and arranged for fans to visit the venue. During the show, Wen Na's band mingled with the fans and it was very lively. Therefore, although the entire show featured English songs, the ratings were very high.
Start filming the movie
After the Wenner Band's successful performance on TV, it was unexpected that even the film industry began to pay attention. First, Huang Zhan asked Pato to let the Wenner Band film for him. , on the other hand, Shaw Brothers also sent their eyes to Pato and promised to make eight films.
After careful consideration, Pato finally reached an agreement with Huang Zhan and began preparations for the filming of "Cabar Le". From this time on, the Wenner Band's career reached another peak.
After the filming of the movie "Caile de Coral" was completed, it was released during the prime time of Christmas. Unexpectedly, Winner's film debut would be so popular among movie fans. The box office record at that time was as high as more than 2 million Hong Kong dollars, which is about the same as today's 20 million Hong Kong dollars.
Winner Rhapsody
It is undeniable that Pato is not only the first successful manager in Hong Kong, but he is also full of strength. Although there are many disputes in the industry, the author believes that Alan Tam and Ah B are able to achieve what they have today because of Pato's contribution.
Why is this said? It turns out that Pato negotiated with TVB back then and made a lot of efforts to get the Wenner Band to join. When TVB started filming "Winner's Rhapsody", one of Pato's conditions was that TVB was not allowed to rebroadcast the program after three years. Because he wants to protect his image in the future.
Sometimes I really have to admire Pato's vision, because he understands that if 'Winner's Rhapsody' is still replayed today, because of the change in trends, it is not difficult for fans to have the illusion that Winner's skills are insufficient. The image is old-fashioned, the songs have no freshness, etc. Pato ignored other people's criticism for the benefit of Winner's band. As a result, it turned out that the members of the Wenner Band were not played to the limit and became crippled.
Winner and Uncle Jiao
Since the development of Wenner Band in music, film and television was very ideal, at this time, Jiahe also invited them to make a film, and the film became "Wenner". Take and teach uncle'. Unfortunately, the movie Winner and the Godfather failed miserably at the box office, and its results were not as good as expected. The main reason was that the film's script and direction were very poor, failing to bring out Winner's strengths, and Pato had no control over the production, so everyone was disappointed with the experience. After Pato experienced this lesson, in order to maintain the image of Winner Band and for the sake of long-term interests, he decided to strictly select directors and scripts in the future, and personally participate in the planning work. Although his income will be less, Pato's policy of preferring good to bad proves that he is a selfless manager. With fewer film performances, the Winners can focus on developing in the local music scene. Not only that, Pato also began to lead Winner to develop into the music scene in other parts of Southeast Asia. Winner's band is very popular with local fans in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Brunei, Sabah, etc., and the fanaticism has become the headlines of local newspapers. The Taiwan market is actually the most difficult market for the Winners to break into. First of all, the Five Brothers don't understand Mandarin, and their hair is too long, which is also a problem. Fortunately, Pato, with his perseverance, finally started a new chapter for Winner Band in Taiwan.
New Journey to the West
With the help of his friend Yu Guang, Pato began to cooperate with China Television. However, the script that was handed over could not bring out the charm of the Wenner Five, so Pato stayed up all night to write a new script for the Wenner Band. 'New Journey to the West' has finally been completed. The assigned roles for this special series are Tang Monk played by Chen You, Zhu Bajie played by A B, Sha Xiangshang played by A Qiang, Sun Wukong played by Jian Zai, and Allen actually played the Bull Demon King . According to Pato, the script for "New Journey to the West: The Iron Fan Princess" was completed in three hours, all night long, and was immediately shot the next day. The set was found immediately on the same day, and it was broadcast immediately the next day after filming. I believe this record will attract the attention of the Hong Kong television industry.
"New Journey to the West" relied on the funny acting skills of the Winner Five, coupled with their salty but not bland Mandarin, to make the Taiwanese audience laugh out loud. Overnight, Winner immediately became the new idols of Taiwan's entertainment industry. Pato believed that the biggest regret at that time was that the Wenner band had no Mandarin album to release in Taiwan. Since the market for English songs in the Taiwanese music scene is limited, and the agency does not believe that Pato can win over Winner in Taiwan, this time the Kolin Company (PolyGram agency) missed a good opportunity.
Taiwanese film producer
Pato also revealed a little secret when talking about this. It turns out that he was a Taiwanese producer at that time. I hope I can take advantage of the Wenlai boom and make a fortune in terms of food and accommodation. So I came to Hong Kong, hoping to buy the release rights of 'Cabar Le'.
But Pato has a unique vision. He believes that the tastes of Hong Kong audiences are very different from those in Taiwan.
So Pato discussed with several shareholders of "Caile de Coral", including Huang Zhan, Hu Shuru, Luo Kaimu, etc., hoping to prevent the sale to a Taiwanese theater company without re-doubling the vocal cords.
However, due to his busy work schedule, it is impossible for Huang Zhan to prepare a new version for Café de Coral. Several shareholders did not listen to Pato's advice and sold the film to Taiwanese film producers. The plot of the movie, with Cantonese dialogue. In addition, the Cantonese song "Today I am full of loneliness, money, money, money, etc.", I would like to ask the Taiwanese audience, how can they understand? Just as Pato expected, the box office revenue of 'Cabar Le' in Taiwan has certainly plummeted. This will naturally have an impact on Wenner's reputation.
Chasing Running and Jumping
Pato was not content with this. He reached an agreement with Golden Harvest and invited Taiwan's new young director Chen Yaoqi to collaborate on the film, which was renamed by Pato himself. Chasing, running, jumping and bumping (Making It)'.
According to Pato, this title is full of the dynamism and energy of young people. Sure enough, the movie was well received, and many Taiwanese businessmen also used the "catching up, running, jumping, and bumping" sales as a motto, and it became a promotional slogan in Taiwanese advertising. At that time, it was already 1978, and time really flies.
Calculated, the plan fell through. At the same time, Ah B's personal development is good. For example, the movie "Small Town Story" made Ah B quite successful, so he also hopes to continue his personal development. As for Alan Tam, because of Ah B's performance, he was also ready to make a move, hoping to have a try on his own. When the contract between Winner and Pato expired, they decided to part ways temporarily. As the saying goes, all feasts in the world must come to an end, and Wen Na will go on his own.