Reborn on Top of Football

"Is this band ready? Or let them compose? Or re-write?"

"I like one of their songs, and with them, we re-arrange and write the words."

After a long flight of ten hours, the plane landed at Charles de Gaulle Airport. The three men dragged their luggage and talked. After getting out of the airport and getting a taxi, Yan Zhu sat in the co-pilot and told the driver's address in simple French. Because they were already asleep on the plane, the three of them were okay and went directly to the agreed place.

In Beijing, Wang Ai had already contacted the Era band, and the other party directly invited Wang Ai and his party to their recording studio. After a brief greeting, Wang Ai explained in detail the purpose of the visit. The other band's full arrival this time, it's not that much of this business, mainly curiosity. Most of their music has a certain religious and soul color, which makes it difficult to associate with a popular football team, not rock music.

Wang Ai carefully explained the purpose and purpose of the selected song, but one of the members immediately opposed it. Because this purebred Frenchman hates Germany very much, of course, he may intentionally raise his price and ask for more money. In short, the contact on the first day was not smooth. Band leader Eric Ravi, please kindly ask Wang Ai to wait for a day, they discussed and discussed.

This time, the three of them are fine in the afternoon, and it is not good to sleep, otherwise they should not be able to sleep at night. If they come to Paris shortly and return to China, they can work according to Chinese time. Wang Ai will stay in Germany during the break, so he must adapt to European time as soon as possible.

Therefore, the three of them actually went to the Champs-Elysées in the afternoon, and the famous attractions along the way really looked around. France is still Chirac ’s presidency. This powerful politician has also maintained France's "arrogance" since the time of Charles de Gaulle. The only European power that does not join NATO and is also friendly to China. At the same time, there are relatively few immigrants in France, so law and order are good, and the environment is good.

After enjoying a not too pure French dinner in the evening, the three returned to the hotel to rest. The next day, the spirits were locked and reunited with the Era band. In fact, the other party called yesterday afternoon, explaining that the team member was temporarily uncomfortable and did not refuse this cooperation. In fact, how can any musician refuse his fans? A group of viewers not far away has also expanded into new fields.

This time the two sides had a good talk, and the other side asked curiously about the situation of the Tubingen youth. Wang Ai gave a detailed introduction, and then asked them to record. The other party said that they could play directly, so the band's soul Eric played a sample with the piano. Now that the Era band has just released an album, Wang Ai has no choice after listening to it, so Eric took out the second album to be released to demonstrate to Wang Ai, and it was only when "TheMass" was released that Wang Ai nodded with satisfaction.

Because it is a song from an unreleased album, the signing cooperation is slightly more troublesome. If it's already released, it's very simple, not even telling the band as long as it doesn't make a profit. But the unreleased one involves a copyright issue. So both sides temporarily sought legal assistants. Era's recording studio had a law firm downstairs, and Wang Ai directly called the Legal Department of the Tubingen Youth Club, which was full of Wang Ai's law at the University of Tubingen. Classmates, good quality and cheap, enthusiastic work.

Wang Ai promised not to sell the music of the lyrics and its adaptations until the new album was released. After the release of the other album, the Tubingen Youth Club needed to declare in the team song that it was composed by the Era band. Wang Ai paid the price of 5,000 euros to obtain a permanent adaptation right for this song, but the direction can only be a team song.

The price is high or low, and it is entirely within the range of Wang Ai and Tubingen's youth. It is even lower. Because of Era's promise, if the adaptation is suitable in the future, they can rush to Tubingen for a debut song or a concert, which is all right.

Farewell to Era, Wang Ai did not return to Tubingen immediately because another guest he invited was coming. This is a Liverpool man named Gerry Marsden. There are not many people who know this name. It is just an ordinary British musician. No one knows just the song he adapted. The world ’s most successful team song "You Will Never Walk Alone". Both Elvis and the Beatles have sung this song, which is also a momentary classic, but it has not stood out from the ranks of the team song. Only the version adapted by Marsden was finally selected by Liverpool fans spontaneously in the golden songs of dozens of ball games, and eventually swept the world.

Therefore, Wang Ai invited the old singer especially when he was in Beijing, intending to let him reproduce the magic, which can retain the rhythm of the Mass and the style of the soul blues, and enhance some subjective lyricism. There are countless original music masters in this world, but only Marsden can succeed to this level, even if he is not famous. That's just because the club is a business after all. In the eyes of decision-makers, team songs are far less valued than fans.

50-year-old Marsden is an imposing British fat old man. In addition to being a musician, he is also a successful businessman. The success of "You Will Never Walk Alone" is the greatest pride of his life, but it is also the only work that has left a name in the history of music, which makes him a little uncomfortable. He is not trying to create for other teams, but unfortunately not very good. When I was invited to Brazil this time, I always felt a little funny along the way.

"Hi, Dr. Wang!" As soon as Marsden arrived at the hotel gate, he saw the three of Wang Ai.

"Know me?" Wang Ai said in surprise.

"Why don't you know? I also watch the World Cup. Oh, yes, I did n’t watch your game live until the second game, you know, watching the ball in the middle of the night is very hard. In short, the World Cup silver boots, do n’t underestimate To your popularity, don't forget, this is the World Football Center. "

"Okay." Wang Ai smiled and held out his hand: "Thank you for coming."

Marsden shook his hand and suddenly looked up at the sky, murmured: "I remember it, I think why I think it's funny. Look at it like this: Chinese investor of a German football club invites an Englishman to come Adapting a French song to make a team song, this Chinese is still the silver boots at the Japan and South Korea World Cup. You see, a team song that has not yet reached the line is that the seven countries will cooperate again. "

Wang Aiha laughed and invited him to sit in the hotel cafe. Musk is still talking: "I think your fans must feel very, very strange about this process. They will never have the confidence to let an Englishman adapt an unpublished song from France to be the team song of a German club. It ’s weird. You have to know that there is a big gap between our three cultures, even if I am Marsden. To be honest, this task is very difficult! "