(威猛乐队自传)
Hi.
你好 你现在目睹的是威猛乐队 生活中很平常的一个早晨
You've just seen a typical morning in the life of Wham!,
但情况并非...
but things haven't really...
Once again. Can we do it again?
再来一遍 我们能再来一遍吗?
(威猛乐队自传)
Hi.
你好 你现在目睹的是威猛乐队 生活中很平常的一个早晨
You've just seen a typical morning in the life of Wham!.
Things haven't always been this way for us.
但我们并非一直都是这样
This is Bushey Meads School, where we met at the tender age of 12 in 1975.
这里是布许米德学校 是我们1975年12岁时相识的地方
We have with us today
我们今天请来了一名
a very special guest.
非常特殊的嘉宾
Mr. Ted Halliwell, my old headmaster.
泰德哈利维尔先生 我之前的校长
Ted, how are you?
泰德 你好吗?
Never been better.
好得不能再好了
Good. Ted, tell me, did you ever think things would turn out like this?
很好 泰德 你有没有想过 我们会达到今日的成就?
- Well... - Thank you, Ted. Let's go to George.
- 这个嘛... - 谢谢 泰德 我们转到乔治那边
我和安德鲁在一起的时候
When I was with Andrew,
we were absolutely determined to have a fantastic time.
我们下定决心要度过一段美好的时光
威猛乐队代表着兄弟情谊
Wham! was a brotherhood.
It was playful.
轻松顽皮
A human, unpredictable mess.
是一种来自人类本质的 无法预料的混乱
All of it was pop.
什么事都是个乐子
And Wham! was never gonna grow up.
威猛乐队准备至死都是少年
It was like a dream, really,
那就像是一场梦 真的
since we were kids.
因为那时我们还是孩子
But at the time,
但当时
everyone's like,
所有人都在说
"How can these two idiots become so bloody massive?"
“这两个笨蛋是怎么火起来的?”
"How does that happen?"
“怎么会发生这种事?”
威猛无敌 我顶天立地
♪ Wham! Bam! I am a man ♪
工作或不工作
♪ Job or no job ♪
都不用你来指指点点
♪ You can't tell me that I'm not ♪
♪ Do you enjoy what you do? ♪
你是否享受当下的工作?
如果不喜欢就停下来
♪ If not, just stop ♪
不要继续留在那里腐烂
♪ Don't stay there and rot ♪
♪ Ah! La, la la, la la ♪
耶耶耶
♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
♪ La, la la, la la ♪
耶耶耶耶耶
♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
我不是没有忧愁
♪ I ain't got no more worries ♪
我没时间陪伴你
♪ I ain't got no more time for you ♪
爱你需要很大的勇气
♪ Loving you takes such courage ♪
每个人都看着你
♪ Everyone's got their eye on you ♪
我不是没有忧愁
♪ I ain't got no more worries ♪
我没时间陪伴你
♪ I ain't got no more time for you ♪
爱你需要很大的勇气
♪ Loving you takes such courage ♪
你觉得我不知道这点吗?
♪ And don't you think that I know it I know it, I know it, I know it ♪
片名:威猛乐队
George, can you just tell us how you and Andrew got together?
乔治 你能告诉我们 你和安德鲁是怎么走到一起的吗?
Uh, basically, we met when I was 11 and Andrew was 12
基本上就是 我11岁时在北伦敦
in North London.
认识了12岁的安德鲁
The first day
我去新学校的
that I got to my new school, I met Andrew.
第一天就认识了安德鲁
Our form tutor walked in with a new boy.
我们的仪态教练 带进来一个新来的男孩
He had these sodding great big window-frame glasses.
他戴着那么大的框架眼镜
And I was very awkward.
我当时非常格格不入
Slightly porky, very strange-looking bloke.
是个有些肉乎乎 长相很奇怪的家伙
Very curly big bonce of hair.
头发非常卷翘
And quite shy.
而且很害羞
Our teacher introduced him as Georgios Panayiotou.
我们的老师介绍他的名字是 乔治斯帕纳约图
Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou, that's it.
乔治斯基里亚科斯帕纳约图 没错
"Who's going to look after the new boy?"
“谁来照顾新来的这个男孩?”
Andrew put up his hand.
安德鲁举起了手
I genuinely believe that there's something predestined about it.
我真的相信这是命中注定的相遇
I mean, the path might have been totally different
如果我那天坐在其他人身边的话
had I sat down next to someone else that day.
我们有可能会过上全然不同的人生
For me, he was Yog. It was the nickname I'd given him.
对我来说 他是约格 那是我给他起的绰号
There was such a bond there, really.
我们之间有一种羁绊 真的
Essentially, Yog and I saw things exactly the same way.
基本上 我和约格有着相同的三观
Musically, we were joined at the hip.
在音乐上 我们密不可分 形影不离
We'd spend hours doing skits and putting together comedy radio shows.
我们会花几个小时做小品编排 并制作喜剧广播节目
...writing songs, and then we started a band when we were both about 16.
...写歌 然后在我们俩大约16岁时 我们成立了一个乐队
We were the Executive.
我们当时叫执行官乐队
Uh, the Executive.
执行官乐队
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight!
一、二、 三、四 五、六、七、八!
(1979年执行官乐队小样及排练)
It was ska music,
那是斯卡音乐风格
总的来说 我们的水平很糟糕 !
and we were terrible, basically!
Uh, we weren't bad for 16.
对于16岁的人来说不算差
好了 混蛋们 第三遍!
Okay, wankers, third time!
是啊 我们五个人基本上 在所需的乐器上都能露一手
The five of us just about covered everything that we needed instrument-wise.
Come back, Andrew!
重复!
一年之后就失败了
Fizzled out after a year,
as people didn't turn up for practices or concerts or whatever.
因为成员们不来练习 也不去演出
I wouldn't say it fizzled out.
我不会说那个乐队失败了
It rather more imploded, and that just left me and Yog.
更像是自己内爆了 就剩下我和约格
It was just gonna be us two.
只是我们两个人
And we would just carry on writing songs together.
我们会继续一起写歌
And we'd go out dancing in London's West End.
我们会去伦敦西区跳舞
我们会去一家叫节拍路线的夜店
And we went to a club called the Beat Route.
We were kinda doing this, like, formation dance
我们会一起跳一种编队舞 然后一起快乐大笑
and having a laugh.
Andy started shouting something about "wham, bam" and all this, you know?
安迪开始大吼“威猛无敌”
So I just started rapping,
然后我就开始接着说唱了下去
"Wham, bam, I am the man."
“威猛无敌 我顶天立地”
We thought that'd be a good name for a group.
我们觉得这是个不错的组合名称
Wham!.
威猛!
And it stuck.
这名字就这样被保留了下来
♪ I really don't know much better... ♪
And there was only ever one thing that I wanted to do.
那时我只想做一件事
Be in a band with Yog.
就是和约格一起组建一支乐队
Andrew and I had developed a knack for writing these catchy songs.
我和安德鲁对编写朗朗上口的小歌 已经有了自己的诀窍
We did a demo tape for £20 in Andrew's front room.
我们在安德鲁家的前厅 花20英镑录了一个小样
We had, like, a broom with a microphone tied to it
我们把麦克风绑在扫帚上
and one of those little four-track portastudios
还有一个1970年代末期刚出现的
that had just come out at the end of the '70s.
小型四轨移动磁带录音机
♪ I said get, get, get on down ♪
纵享欢乐 尽情狂欢
♪ I said get, get, get on down ♪
纵享欢乐 尽情狂欢
You know, we were all 17 or 18.
当时我们只有17岁或18岁
The songwriting was dictated by our circumstances,
词曲创作取决于我们的境况
the environment around us.
和我们周围的环境
Protests throughout the country.
当时抗议游行遍布全国
The rocketing rise of unemployment among 16- to 18-year-olds.
16岁到18岁人口的失业率飙升
We were fusing rap with disco, and then we added pop.
我们将说唱与迪斯科融合在一起 然后加入了流行音乐风格
A social lyric to a disco backing.
一种带有迪斯科伴奏 反应社会现状的歌曲
♪ Hey, everybody, take a look at me ♪
嘿 大家都看过来
♪ I've got street credibility ♪
我有自己的风格特色
♪ I may not have a job But I have a good time ♪
我可能没有正式工作 但我过得很快乐
♪ With the boys that I meet Down on the line... ♪
和我认识的兄弟们...
The silly chant that I'd been singing at one of the clubs,
围绕着我在一家夜店 唱过的愚蠢小调
we wrote the song "Wham Rap!" around it.
我们写了一首 叫做《威猛轻敲》的歌曲
♪ Wham, bam, I am a man ♪
威猛无敌 我顶天立地
We just kept writing songs from there.
从那时开始 我们就一直在写歌
Yog and I drew on our clubbing experiences.
我和约格从我们的夜店生活中 吸取灵感
"Club Tropicana" was written about the Beat Route.
《热带俱乐部》 描写的就是节拍路线夜店
♪ Club Tropicana, drinks are free... ♪
在热带俱乐部 酒水免费...
这首歌当时我们只有一段歌词 和一段和弦
We only had a verse and a chorus for that track.
约格有天晚上来到我家
Yog came round to my house one evening,
and I'd been working on a chord progression that I really liked.
当时我一直在研究 一段我很喜欢的和弦进行
It was amazing because he said,
那真的很棒 因为他说
"I've got a melody that fits over that chord progression perfectly."
“我有一段旋律可以完美配上 那段和旋进行”
我俩想出的和弦曲调竟然差不太多
We'd come up with roughly the same chord pattern.
♪ As I fall once more... ♪
当我再次跌倒...
(《无心快语》第一版小样)
♪ I smell the varnish ♪
闻到了舞池地板上
♪ Of this dance floor ♪
清漆的味道
♪ To the heart and mind... ♪
对心灵而言...
We finished it together,
我们是一起完成的 在家中或是在巴士上慢慢写成
put it together very slowly at home or on the bus,
just add a little bit day by day.
每天离成品更近一步
♪ Pain is all you'll find ♪
你会发现痛苦随之而来
♪ And I'm never gonna dance again ♪
故此 我将终不再起舞
♪ Guilty feet have got no rhythm ♪
内疚的心令舞步失去韵律
♪ And it's easy to pretend ♪
尽管欺骗并不困难
♪ But I know I'm not a fool... ♪
但我知道你早已看穿...
I remember it when it was finished
我记得完成的那一刻
有一天 我们逃课的时候 我对他说:“我不知道要谁唱这首歌
one day when we were bunking off school.
I said to him, "I don't know who'll do it,
and I don't know whether I'll be good enough to sing it."
我不知道自己能不能唱好这首歌”
"That is a number-one song."
“那是一首能排名首位的歌”
The actual demo tape was about four minutes long.
实际的录音小样大概有四分钟长
That was quite enough for me. I was supremely confident.
这对我来说已经够了 我超级自信
Even though it was one song,
尽管就只是这一首歌
two-thirds of another, and a quarter of the other.
而且内容七零八落的
We'd go and doorstep record companies.
但我们还是去敲响了 各个唱片公司的大门
两个18岁的男孩
Two 18-year-old boys. How cocky is that?
这是有多自信?我们就那么站在门口
We'd just stand there
and insist that we had booked an appointment.
非要对方给我们安排一次见面
We had a very disappointing response.
我们收到的回应很令人失望
有个男人把录音带扔回桌上说
A guy chucked the tape back over the table and said,
“声音不错 回去写点热门歌曲”
you know, "Nice voice, but go away and write some hit songs."
They all sent "Careless Whisper" away. They all sent "Club Tropicana" away.
他们都拒绝了《无心快语》 他们都拒绝了《热带俱乐部》
I remember my stomach turning over,
我记得当时我的胃都在翻腾
and I remember the sinking feeling.
我记得那种沉到谷底的感觉
I was absolutely devastated.
我非常崩溃
Devastated.
难过极了
It was discouraging,
这很让人泄气
but I knew a chap called Mark Dean, who lived down the road from my parents,
但我认识一个叫马可狄恩的小伙子 他跟我父母住在同一条街上
and he was in the record industry.
他在唱片行业工作
I think he discovered Soft Cell and ABC.
应该是他发掘了软细胞合唱团 和ABC乐队
Andy kept on phoning my mum all the time, saying, "Would you listen to a tape?"
安迪一直打电话给我妈妈 说:“愿意听盘录音带吗?”
And, uh, I wouldn't. I kept on avoiding him.
我一直在拒绝他 一直躲着他
I just thought, "Oh, not another band next door."
我说:“不了 别又来邻家乐队这套”
Andrew put the tape into Mark Dean's letterbox.
安德鲁把录音带放进马克迪恩的信箱
There was no music on the tape.
录音带里没有音乐
It was just George singing songs with scratchy guitar.
只是乔治伴随粗粝的吉他声唱歌
But it was still great, and it was fantastic.
但歌还是很动听 非常棒
他说:“我会给你们一份唱片合约”
He said, "I'm gonna offer you a record deal."
We signed it at this little greasy-spoon café.
我们在这家油腻的街边咖啡厅签的约
Pure joy.
极致的快乐
My mum started, from day one, a scrapbook.
我妈妈从第一天开始就记手账
(第一册)
(第二册 第三册)
And she built up an amazing collection.
她打造了一套惊人的手账集
Cuttings, reviews,
有简报、评论
chart positions.
歌曲排名名次
She really committed to the scrapbook.
她真的在认真做手账
Scrapbook number one.
手账第一册
"Andrew and Yog signed record contract with Innervision."
“安德鲁和约格与内视影像唱片公司 签署了合约”
"Wham!"
“威猛乐队”
That was it. You know, we were living it.
就这样 我们梦想成真
简直太神奇了
It was just absolutely magical,
playing out your fantasies.
我们的梦想成为了现实
It was just a dream and with your best mate, you know.
这是你和你最好朋友间的一个梦想
Wham! is really just Andrew and myself,
威猛乐队实际成员只有我和安德鲁
but we thought we would incorporate two girls,
但我们觉得乐队可以吸收两个姑娘
one of whom would be Andrew's girlfriend.
其中一个后来成为了安德鲁的女朋友
Shirlie, Yog, and I used to go out dancing.
雪莉、约格和我以前经常去跳舞
然后我们觉得 可以用这种方式展示我们的音乐
Then we felt that's how we could present our music.
Another is a professional.
另一个姑娘是专业人士
Dee C Lee joined us.
迪C李加入了我们
The two girls had been inspired by the Human League.
这两个姑娘都受到了 人类联盟合唱团的启发
Andrew and I both loved Human League.
我和安德鲁都喜欢人类联盟合唱团
George loves Human League. I quite like them.
乔治超爱人类联盟合唱团 我只能说是很喜欢
The girls hadn't been inspired by Human League.
这俩姑娘没有受到 人类联盟合唱团的启发
You know, we used what we had,
我们只是有谁就用谁
and I had a girlfriend,
我正好有个女朋友
and we had these dance routines. That's what we had.
我们会一些舞步 我们有的就这些
So our first ever 45 was pressed.
于是我们的第一张 7寸45转唱片发布了
♪ You're gonna have a good time... ♪
Hi, this is George Michael of Wham! here.
嗨 我是威猛乐队的乔治迈克尔
Hope you enjoy the new single.
希望你们喜欢这首新单曲
It's called "Wham Rap!."
它的名字是 《威猛轻敲(享受自我)》
纵享欢乐 尽情狂欢
♪ Get, get, get on down ♪
纵享欢乐 尽情狂欢
♪ Said get, get, get on down ♪
嘿 大家都看过来
♪ Hey, everybody, take a look at me ♪
我有自己的风格特色
♪ I've got street credibility ♪
我可能没有正式工作 但我过得很快乐
♪ I may not have a job But I have a good time ♪
♪ With the boys that I meet Down on the line ♪
和我一起排队的男孩们 说着卫生和社会保障部
♪ Say D-H-S-S ♪
天哪 他们唱出的旋律无人能及
♪ Man, the rhythm that they're givin' Is the very best... ♪
The response was extraordinary.
听众的反响非常好
Sounds described us as socially aware funk.
《音响杂志》形容我们为 “具有社会意识的朋克音乐”
给自己找份工作 是人还是老鼠?
♪ Get yourself a job Are you a man or a mouse? ♪
But everything pointed toward it being a hit.
但各方面的反响都表明 这是首热门歌曲
♪ Get some space Get out of this place ♪
滚出这个地方
威猛无敌 我顶天立地
♪ Wham, bam, I am a man ♪
工作或不工作 都不用你来指指点点
♪ Job or no job You can't tell me that I'm not ♪
你是否享受当下的生活?
♪ Do you enjoy what you do? ♪
如果不喜欢 就停下来
♪ If not, just stop ♪
不要继续留在那里腐烂
♪ Don't stay there and rot ♪
The label, on that first single,
在第一张单曲上 作者写的是
credited Andrew Ridgeley and G Panos.
安德鲁瑞吉里和G帕诺斯
Panos was a shortening of Panayiotou.
帕诺斯是帕纳约图的简称
There is a very urgent need for a stage name.
迫切需要一个新艺名
...付出代价 现在展翅高飞
♪ ...are gonna pay Now reach up high ♪
探寻你的灵魂...
♪ And touch your soul... ♪
乔治迈克尔
George Michael.
George is the English version of the Greek name Georgios.
乔治是希腊名字乔吉欧斯的英文版
Michael is the Christian name of one of our good friend's dads.
迈克尔是我们一个好朋友爸爸的教名
因为我知道你很明智...
♪ 'Cause I know that you're smart... ♪
It helped shape a persona.
这个名字帮助我塑造了一个人设
- 好啊! - 大声呼喊威猛乐队
- ♪ Yeah! ♪ - ♪ Say wham! ♪
- ♪ Wham! ♪ - ♪ Say bam! ♪
- 威猛乐队 - 尽享快乐!
♪ Bam! ♪
尽享快乐!
我们确信这首歌会大获成功
We were convinced it was gonna be a hit.
But it didn't even make the top 100.
但它甚至没有进入前100名
It was a disaster.
那是一场灾难
The record company felt that we would need to build up a fan base.
唱片公司觉得我们需要培养粉丝基础
They proposed that we did personal appearances
他们提议我们在全国各地的
in these small clubs up and down the length of the country.
小型夜店里进行路演
因为我们当时还没什么名气
'Cause we were D list.
没错 当时我们确实是四流歌手
Yeah, we were seriously, seriously D rate.
You'd see the same poor sods every place you went.
随处可见像我们这样的可怜虫
比如上周跟你在同一家夜店
Like, mime artists and shit like that
that you would've seen doing the same club as you last week.
表演的哑剧演员
George!
乔治!
是的 乔治要来一段说唱
Yes, George is gonna do a bit of rapping.
And even though it was embarrassing
虽然这很让人尴尬
and you were constantly being harassed by drunks and shit,
而且经常被醉鬼之类的人骚扰
it meant that we were prepared. You know what I mean?
但那意味着我们做好了准备 懂我的意思吗?
我们开始吧!
Away we go!
Right, some of you in the front, right,
好的 前面的人
I'm gonna ask you to sing along to some of this.
我会请你们和我一起唱
We were under massive pressure to chart,
当时我们身处 需要发布新歌的巨大压力
and George came up with "Young Guns."
乔治写出了《龙威虎将》
If "Young Guns" wasn't a hit, we would be dropped.
如果《龙威虎将》不能火 唱片公司就会跟我们毁约
What the fuck is that?
这到底是怎么回事?
嘿 笨蛋
♪ Hey, sucker ♪
你到底是怎么了?
♪ What the hell's got into you? ♪
So "Young Guns" made its way up the charts to number 72.
《龙威虎将》登上了排行榜的第72位
"Wham Rap!" had been a failure.
《威猛轻敲》完全失败了
If this track wasn't a hit, we weren't gonna make another record,
如果这首歌不火的话 我们就不会再出唱片了
and it stalled at number 42.
它在第42位停滞不前
It wasn't actually gonna make it into the top 40.
它不可能进入前40名的
And that was possibly the worst week of my life.
那可能是我这辈子最糟糕的一周
Christ's sake, you know? It felt bad.
天啊 你知道吗?感觉很难受
I spent a week thinking,
我花了一周的时间思考
"I'm not any good at this."
“我不擅长做这种事”
That I was wrong about something
我从小坚信不移的某种信念
that I believed with all my heart since I was a child.
就这样破碎了
And then we got this miracle phone call out of the blue.
然后我们突然接到了 一个奇迹般的电话
(1982年11月)
We get a phone call from Top of the Pops,
我们接到了《流行歌曲精选》的电话 问我们是否愿意出镜
asking us if we will appear because another artist had dropped out.
因为有个歌手退出了节目
The only prime-time chart show.
唯一的黄金时段音乐排行榜节目
I'd never really seen stardom above Top of the Pops, you know?
我从没见过比《流行歌曲精选》 更耀眼的节目
A Top of the Pops appearance was
能在《流行歌曲精选》露一次面
the holy grail.
简直就是行业圣杯
The night before, we stayed in this little hotel.
上节目的前一晚 我们住在一家小旅馆
George drew the short straw and got some crib to sleep in.
乔治运气不好 只能睡在婴儿床上
And it was a child-size bed.
那张床的大小就是给小孩睡的
He had a really uncomfortable, sleepless night
他度过了一个难受的不眠之夜
with his feet poking over the end of it.
双脚悬空
(威猛乐队首次参加 《流行歌曲精选》)
三
Three, two, one...
二、一...
(《流行歌曲精选》)
We get on stage, look at each other, and think,
我们上了台 看着对方 心里想着
"This is it. Let's do it."
“时不我待 我们加油”
嘿 笨蛋
♪ Hey, sucker ♪
你到底是怎么了?
♪ What the hell's got into you? ♪
嘿 笨蛋
♪ Hey, sucker ♪
如今你无能为力
♪ Now there's nothing you can do ♪
我有段时间没有看到你了
♪ Well, I hadn't seen your face Around town awhile ♪
于是用心照不宣的微笑欢迎你
♪ So I greeted you with a knowing smile ♪
当我看到你搂着的那个姑娘
♪ When I saw that girl upon your arm ♪
我知道她的致命魅力 俘获了你的心...
♪ I knew she'd won your heart With her fatal charm... ♪
I mean, it looks terrible when you look at it now,
现在回过头来看 简直不忍直视
but at the time, it was considered quite innovative and new,
但在当时 大家都认为 我们展现自己的方式
the way we presented ourselves.
相当有创意 很新颖
龙威虎将奇乐开怀
♪ Young guns having some fun ♪
疯狂的女士们 伴其身旁
♪ Crazy ladies keep 'em on the run ♪
♪ Wise guys realize... ♪
聪明的人会意识到...
We had virtually no clothes.
我们当时几乎没有衣服可穿
我们当时好像只有两套服装 来回换着穿
I think there were about two outfits that we circulated between us.
一、二 看看你
♪ One, two, take a look at you ♪
被婚姻折磨得如此痛苦...
♪ Death by matrimony ♪
There's a certain energy through the naffness, know what I mean?
这种缺乏修饰的穿着 创造了某种气场 懂我的意思吧?
♪ Get back! Hands off! Go for it! ♪
后退!把手拿开!去努力争取...
It was fairly amateurish, but we looked original.
风格有些业余 但我们看起来挺原创
We looked different.
我们看起来与众不同
龙威虎将奇乐开怀
♪ Young guns having some fun ♪
疯狂的女士们 伴其身旁...
♪ Crazy ladies keep 'em on the run... ♪
It's such a funny dance routine when you see it.
你一看就会觉得 舞步非常滑稽
But it worked in a weird kind of way. Everybody remembered it at the time.
但不知怎的 这种风格效果非凡 当时大家都过目不忘
We went and did it in my mum's back room.
我们当时在我妈妈的后屋做的编舞
No choreographer was gonna come up with that shit.
没有哪个编舞指导会容忍我们的做法
(威猛乐队)
Wonderful! Well done, Wham!!
太棒了!真是精彩 威猛乐队!
But that was our moment which definitely turned everything around.
但那是我们的关键时刻 完全改变了我们的境遇
The single flew up the charts.
这首单曲在排行榜上急速上升
Wham! had arrived.
威猛乐队终于名声大噪
A happy start to what we hope will be a great New Year.
一个愉快的开始 我们希望这将是美好的新一年
This is Andrew from Wham!.
这位是威猛乐队的安德鲁
- 嗨! - 以及乔治
- Hi! - George from Wham!.
你好
Hi.
What are your predictions for 1983 on the musical side of things?
在音乐方面 你对1983年有哪些预见?
Well, there's Wham!...
威猛乐队崛起...
- You've made it already. - We've gotta have a number one yet.
- 但你们已经成功了 - 我们只是取得了一个第一
We gotta have three number ones. Millions of number ones.
我们得取得三个第一 好几百万个第一
What style of music do you think's gonna be big in the summer of '83?
你觉得哪种音乐 会在1983年大放异彩?
Ours.
我们的音乐
手账第三册
Scrapbook number three.
We are a hit band and 20 years old.
我们是个热门乐队 而且20岁了
Wham! have got two reasons to celebrate.
威猛乐队有两个值得庆祝的理由
It's Andrew's birthday. Happy birthday.
今天是安德鲁的生日 生日快乐
And also they're in the charts with "Wham Rap!."
而且《威猛轻敲》也上了音乐榜
"Wham Rap!" was rereleased,
《威猛轻敲》进行了再次发行
and it went to number eight. Amazing result.
最终排到了第八位 令人惊异的结果
Let's introduce the band.
我们来介绍一下乐队
- Dee. - Shirlie.
- 迪 - 雪莉
- George. - I'm Andrew.
- 乔治 - 我是安德鲁
Innervision sort of pitched us as cultural warriors.
内视影像唱片把我们作为文化斗士 进行宣传
"Wham! will shape the views
“威猛乐队会影响到每个青少年的
of every adolescent."
世界观”
And it pressured us into writing to a certain formula.
这迫使我们必须按照一定的模式创作
Youth kicking against adulthood.
年轻人反抗成年人世界
Let's check out some social-comment rapping
我们看看威猛乐队的流行音乐唱片
with a dance record from Wham!.
引发的社会反响
"Bad Boys" went to number two.
《坏小子》排名第二
Massive hit.
大火特火
坏小子们团结一致
♪ Bad boys stick together ♪
永不悲伤的男孩们
♪ Never sad boys ♪
♪ Do do do do do, woo woo! ♪
不错的人...
♪ Good guys... ♪
但我们两个都对《坏小子》不满意
But neither of us were happy with "Bad Boys."
"Bad Boys" was simply formula.
《坏小子》只是个模式化作品
I just didn't know what to do, and I just wrote to formula.
我不知道该怎么办 只能按照模式创作
I absolutely hate that single.
我讨厌这首单曲
我们刚开始写歌的时候
When we started songwriting,
I was unemployed, and that informed "Wham Rap!."
我处于失业状态 这让我写出了《威猛轻敲》
事实是 我们现在是成功人士
The fact is, we were now a successful act.
我们不是社会评论人
We weren't social commentators.
(第五册)
We had a very strong sense of doing something different.
我们其实很渴望尝试新事物
A vision of this kind of bright, new pop thing.
创造一种积极活泼的新型流行乐
I have genuine feeling for a mainstream audience.
我对主流观众的感情很真挚
That's what youth culture's contribution to music was.
那就是青年文化对音乐的贡献
Pop music.
流行音乐
I think what's happening in England is that there's a large escapist element
我觉得现在在英国 强烈的逃避主义元素
creeping back into music now.
又悄悄潜回音乐当中
- What's the plans for the summer? - We're shooting a video in Ibiza.
- 夏季有什么安排? - 我们要去伊维萨岛拍摄新单曲
- What's the new single called? - The new single's "Club Tropicana."
- 新单曲要叫什么? - 新单曲叫《热带俱乐部》
三、四年前 人们为朋克风
Three or four years ago, with the punk thing, people were shouting.
振臂高呼
Now they're not ashamed of being young, unemployed.
现在他们不再以年轻和无业为耻
They'd rather just go to a disco or a club and forget about it.
他们宁愿去迪斯科舞厅或俱乐部 忘掉一切烦恼
We thought we'd make this new pop music.
我们觉得自己可以创造一种 新流行音乐
The fantasy that is "Club Tropicana."
一种《热带俱乐部》式的幻想世界
A new direction.
一个新的方向
A new identity.
一种新的自我认同
Neither of us had been to Ibiza before.
我俩之前都没去过伊维萨岛
We were to shoot the video in this paradise of a boutique hotel.
我们要在一个天堂般的 精品酒店拍摄视频
传说中的派克酒店
The legendary Pikes,
a known secret.
众所周知的秘密景点
An escape for the rich and famous
那个时代富人、名人
and the celebrities of the era.
和名流的世外桃源
It was like pop stars, is how they live.
他们的生活方式 就像流行音乐巨星一样
It was effervescent, everything George and I imagined
那是一种充满活力的生活 就是我和乔治一起在我父母的客厅
when we wrote the song in my parents' living room
创作这首歌时想象的那个世界
but had never seen for real.
但我们从未亲眼见识过
For us, it was beginning to really shape what Wham! was gonna become.
对我们来说 这确立了威猛乐队 以后发展的走向
Two young guys
两个年轻人
who were hedonistic.
都是享乐主义者
That exuberance of youth.
洋溢的那种青春活力
"Club Tropicana" was the point where we became pure Wham!.
《热带俱乐部》就是我们和威猛乐队 完全成为一体的那一刻
让我带你前往 那个微笑就可以入场的地方
♪ Let me take you to the place Where membership's a smiling face ♪
和巨星们并肩
♪ Brush shoulders with the stars ♪
陌生人牵起你的手 欢迎你来到仙境
♪ Where strangers take you by the hand And welcome you to wonderland ♪
从他们的睡衣之下
♪ From beneath their Panamas ♪
在热带俱乐部 酒水免费
♪ Club Tropicana, drinks are free ♪
欢乐与阳光
♪ Fun and sunshine ♪
每人都足够...
♪ There's enough for everyone... ♪
The interesting thing is that it was kind of inconceivable to me
有趣的是 我无法想象
that I would ever become the kind of pinup that I thought Andrew naturally was.
自己会成为安德鲁那种大众情人 我认为他天生就是如此
But, actually, girls found me attractive as well as Andrew.
但其实女孩们觉得 我和安德鲁同样有魅力
拍摄结束后 我们在那里待了几天
We stayed on a couple of days after the shoot.
One morning,
一天早上
the phone rang in my room,
我屋里的电话响了
and Yog said to me, "Can you come over and have a chat?"
约格对我说: “你能过来和我聊聊哦吗?”
Nothing out of the ordinary, as far as that goes.
我觉得这太正常不过了
I walked around the swimming pool.
我走过游泳池
I went into his room, and Shirlie was there,
进到了他的房间 雪莉也在
which also wasn't unusual.
这也还算正常
Shirlie and I had split up,
我和雪莉分手了
but we were a really close trio of friends.
但我们是相当亲密的三人组
Yog was in bed.
约格在床上
He gave Shirlie sort of a quick glance.
他飞快地看了雪莉一眼
He said to me,
然后对我说
"Didn't know how to tell you this,
“我不知道怎么跟你说
but I'm gay."
但我是同性恋”
"If not gay, you know, bisexual."
“如果不是同性恋 那也是双性恋”
About six months before we went to do the video for "Club Tropicana",
大概在我们为《热带俱乐部》 拍摄视频的六个月前
I'd actually had something go on that,
我其实遇到了一件事
you know, made my attraction to men fairly clear.
这让我非常清楚地意识到 自己喜欢男人
I had stayed over at this guy's house.
我当时在一个男人家过夜
He tried to have sex with me, and I'd been too scared.
他想和我上床 我太害怕了
But I realized that I wanted to stay in the bed for the night.
但我也意识到 我想在他的床上过夜
I wanted to be close to this guy,
我想和这个男人亲近
which had never happened before.
以前从未发生过这种事
And I wrote a song about that.
我为此写了一首歌
这就是那首歌所描述的
That's what that song was about.
♪ I watch you breathe ♪
我看着你呼吸
我无法入睡...
♪ I cannot sleep... ♪
It kinda hit me really in a very kind of profound way
这件事真的以一种非常深刻的方式 触动了我
that something else was going on.
让我感觉不对劲
Once I realized that this was a part of my sexuality I couldn't ignore,
一旦我意识到 这是我无法忽视的性倾向问题
I went to come out to Andrew.
我就向安德鲁出柜了
For me,
对我来说
his sexuality had absolutely no bearing on... on us.
他的性倾向对我们的关系毫无影响
I wanted him to be happy.
我希望他快乐
I said I was gonna talk to my mum and dad and was persuaded,
我说我准备和我父母谈谈 大家的劝说让我明白了
in no uncertain terms, that it really wasn't the best idea.
这真的不是个好主意
I don't think they were trying to protect my career or their careers.
我觉得他们不是在保护我的职业生涯 或是他们的职业生涯
我觉得他们只是忌惮我爸爸
I think they were literally just thinking of my dad.
'Cause when you're 19, that's as far as...
因为当你19岁时 最严重的就是...
You look at your parents. "Don't tell your dad."
你看着你的父母 “不要告诉你爸爸”
"My God, your dad'll hit the roof."
“我的天 你爸爸一定会怒火万丈”
我们觉得 他真的不能告诉他爸爸
We... We... We felt, you know, that he just couldn't tell his dad.
我们三个当时非常亲密
The three of us were so close at the time,
but the point being I'd really, really asked the wrong people.
但问题在于 我问错了人
I mean, you know, we were 19, 20 years old.
毕竟我们当时只有19岁或20岁
Our perspective was a little narrower.
我们的视角有些狭隘
That is a pivotal moment.
那是一个关键时刻
At that point in time, I really did. I really wanted to come out.
在那个时刻 我真的想那么做 我真的想出柜
And then I lost my nerve completely.
然后我就完全失去了勇气
And just...
只是出于迫不得已
...by necessity,
I went with full gusto into the progression of Wham!,
我全身心投入到威猛乐队的发展中
creating a new character.
创造一个新人设
You're gonna do better and better and shock everyone at how well you can do.
你要越来越好 让所有人都对你的成功感到震惊
Forging an identity through my success.
通过我的成功打造出一种个人形象
George's songwriting was developing
乔治的词曲创作水平 以令人难以想象的惊人速度进步
at an amazing, inconceivable sort of pace.
My songwriting just wasn't developing in anything like the same way his was,
我的词曲创作水平进步的速度 完全比不上他
and it created a little bit of friction.
这就造成了一定的摩擦
Through the album,
在录制那张专辑
through recording Fantastic, we'd... we'd had a discussion.
录制《异想天开》期间 我们进行了讨论
And we talked about the fact that if we wanted to be massive,
我们商量好 如果我们要成为天皇巨星
we shouldn't share the writing.
就不应该一起写歌
The goals that we kind of set ourselves
实际上 只有通过他创作的歌曲质量
could only be attained, really,
with the sort of quality of songwriting that he was able to produce.
我们才能达到自己预设的目标
I've always seen the writing as the gift I was meant to protect.
我一直都把我的写歌水平 看做是一种需要守护的天赋
Never been any question about that.
从未对此有过疑问
It was uncomfortable for me
这对我来说有些难受
because songwriting was something that I...
因为写歌是我...
really, how we started.
是乐队成立的初衷
We formed a band so we could write songs, so it was a little difficult.
我们成立了乐队 这样就可以写歌了 所以我有些难以接受
Andrew and I have got it out the way very quickly
我和安德鲁很快就解决了矛盾
and never had to discuss it again.
然后再也没讨论过这件事
(第六册)
(《异想天开》)
你们的专辑 我说真的
Your album, quite seriously, it was a great album
是一张非常优秀的专辑 里面全是好歌
'cause there's not one bad track on it.
非常感谢
- A terrific album. - Thank you very much.
Our debut album Fantastic had got to number one.
我们首张专辑《异想天开》 排到了第一名
It was an amazing thing to see.
看到这个结果 我真的喜出望外
It remained in the charts for the best part of two and a half years.
它在两年半的时间里 基本上一直名列排行榜
Fancy a bit of Wham!?
要不要放威猛乐队的歌?
- Yes. - I thought you'd say that.
- 好的 - 我就知道你会这么说
However, the music press didn't like "Club Tropicana" at all.
然而 音乐媒体们 一点也不喜欢《热带俱乐部》
They resented that we had thrown the shackles off.
他们不满我们抛弃了世俗的枷锁
It wasn't another protest song.
这不是一首抗议歌曲
I wasn't too keen on the "Casablanca" single or whatever, but...
我不太喜欢那首叫什么 《卡萨布兰卡》的单曲 但是...
- "Club Tropicana." - I knew it was one of those places.
- 《热带俱乐部》 - 我知道那种地方什么样
"Withering, contemptuous, complete sell-out."
萎靡不振、轻浮、出卖自己
When your first singles came out, you had a mixed following,
你们的头几首单曲问世时 乐迷们五花八门
so you seem to have now what we've got round here,
今天现场的乐迷 貌似有很多都是
which is a lot of young girls madly in love with you.
疯狂爱着你们的年轻姑娘
Is it a change of image? It looks that way.
你们是要改变形象吗? 看起来像是如此
We started off with mainly a club audience,
刚开始时 我们的乐迷主要是夜店常客
a lot of girls and blokes of our own age.
很多跟我们同样年龄段的 姑娘和小伙子
And, uh, this year, we've been in a lot of national press,
今年 我们参与了 很多主流媒体的活动
and we've been in a lot of girl magazines.
上了很多女性杂志
- 不过这都是你们自己的选择 - 是的 这是我们自己的选择
- That's a choice of your own. - Yeah, it's a choice of our own.
It narked George
这让乔治感到不厌其烦
because people weren't taking him seriously
因为人们没有真的把他看做词曲作者
as a songwriter.
- George and Andrew from Wham!. Morning!
- 来自威猛乐队的乔治和安德鲁 - 早上好!
A giant banana going to...
一个巨大的香蕉要送给...
Hugo Buckley, aged eight.
雨果巴克利 八岁
- Poynton, Cheshire. - Right, great.
- 柴郡的波因顿 - 是的 很好
As a younger man and as a younger songwriter
作为一个年轻人 一个竭尽全力的
trying to do my best, those things really did hurt me.
年轻词曲作者来说 这些事让我很伤心
Despite the music press,
尽管音乐界如此评价我们
we understood that we were actually moving forwards.
我们明白自己确实有所进步
"Pop" became a very dirty word in England for a good four or five years.
“流行”这个词在英国被视为一种脏话 已经至少有四、五年了
We believe strongly in pop music as very valid,
我们坚信流行音乐有存在的意义
and I think people lost sight of that.
但我认为人们忽视了这一点
A genuine live nationwide tour was our chance
一次真正的全国现场巡演 是我们向怀疑者们
to prove the doubters wrong.
证明自己的机会
Lovely T-shirt!
很不错的T恤!
Is there no chance of cross-fading them with music?
难道不能用音乐 让这部分同时淡出吗?
If it was gonna be a success,
如果要想成功
the Club Fantastic tour had to be absolutely spot on.
这次异想天开俱乐部巡演 丝毫不能懈怠
We never get what we want unless we direct it fairly much ourselves.
除非我们自己监管一切 要不然永远达不到我们的要求
Before, it was, "It's a great idea, boys."
以前他们会说: “这是个好主意 二位”
"What do you know? You're 19."
还有“你懂什么?你才19岁”
"You'd never know what you're talking about."
“你根本不明白自己在说什么”
- There are certain basic... - That was a year ago.
- 问题是 有一些基本的... - 那是一年前的事了
...basic rules to presenting yourself that you know automatically,
...展示自己的基本规则 你自然而然就会明白
and we've actually got that across to people now.
我们现在把这个观念传递给人们了
This is an example. Our own handiwork.
这是一个例子 我们自己设计的
It's the program for the tour.
这是巡演的节目
I was supremely aware that if I left the imagery to Andrew,
我非常清楚 如果我让安德鲁负责形象问题
kids kinda loved it.
孩子们会喜欢得不得了
The outfits in the show had to represent exuberance of youth,
表演中的服装必须能代表青春的活力
fun and excitement.
青春的快乐和兴奋之情
I'd admired Andrew since we were kids,
我从小就很崇拜安德鲁
his kind of sense of style.
他的时尚感
I place a lot of that with him, you know?
我对他寄予厚望
So I pushed the sportswear look.
所以我推出了运动服造型
我选择了红色
I chose red, and for some...
出于某些...可能是因为他是色盲吧
probably 'cause he was colorblind...
...Yog chose canary yellow.
约格选择了金丝雀黄
We'd been joined by a new singer,
一位新歌手加入了我们
Helen DeMacque, who we knew as Pepsi.
海伦德麦克奎 我们都叫他百事
She just slotted in beautifully
她完美地融入了我们
and was a huge asset to us, as was Shirlie.
她和雪莉对我们来说 都是乐队的栋梁之材
They added glamour and a different kind of energy.
她们为乐队添加了光彩 还有一种不同的气场
There's no... There's nobody...
我们接连排练了好几周
It was weeks and weeks and weeks of rehearsal.
George being George,
乔治展现自己的本色
it was about detail.
一切细节至上
And in George's case, forensic detail.
而且对乔治来说 他对待细节像法医一样一丝不苟
So much of how he defined himself was wrapped up in his music.
他对自己的定义 在他的音乐中多有体现
And I went from being Andrew's kind of shadow
我从安德鲁的影子
to being really in the center of attention.
变成了关注的焦点
One, two...
一、二...
宝贝 动起来
♪ Move it, move it, baby ♪
你没发现我已做好跳舞的准备?
♪ Can't you see I'm ready to dance? ♪
我无法抑制心中的旋律
♪ And I can't stop this rhythm In my heart ♪
宝贝 动起来 你没发现...
♪ Move it, move it, baby Can't you see... ♪
And it was time to go on the road.
是时候上路巡演了
♪ Shuffle on your feet Till the floor is hot ♪
舞步不停 直到地板火热
♪ Gonna make a lot of money Gonna break your heart... ♪
我会大赚特赚 让你心碎
但只有我才有钥匙...
The music's really good. I think they're really fit and gorgeous.
音乐很不错 我觉得他们有着健康的活力 非常帅
- They're lovely. - The music's fantastic.
- 他们很可爱 - 音乐棒极了
Both are gorgeous!
他们帅死了
I was determined to be noticed for what I did.
我下定决心 要让世人认可我的努力
What I didn't realize was gonna happen, obviously Andrew starting it off,
我没意识到的是 显然这都是安德鲁的计划
didn't realize that I was going to be selling my physical persona.
我没意识到 会需要兜售自己的身体形象
由此产生的所有烂事
All the kind of nonsense that was borne out of that
took me up a road that I never thought I was gonna go on.
使我走上了一条 我从未预想过的发展道路
I never, ever saw myself as being a kind of teen idol
我从没把自己当成青少年偶像
or anything like that.
或是类似的人物
我真的很害羞
I was really shy, so,
于是
to justify this kind of showy character
为了劝说自己接受这种表演人格
that was the complete antithesis of who I was growing up...
这种与我从小到大的人格 完全对立的性格
I said
我告诉自己
that's the thing I put on.
只不过是演出来而已
嘿 笨蛋
♪ Hey, sucker ♪
你到底是怎么了?
♪ What the hell's got into you? ♪
嘿 笨蛋...
♪ Hey, sucker... ♪
The reaction was stunning everywhere we went.
我们所到之处 反响惊人
It was absolutely nuts.
简直是太疯狂了
Both of us were absolutely fizzing.
我们俩都非常兴奋
To sort of up the ante even more,
为了进一步活跃氛围
George would run a shuttlecock up and down his glistening, sweaty arm,
乔治会用一只羽毛球 摩擦他汗津津、闪亮亮的胳膊
and he'd drop it down his shorts, and then he'd sling it in the crowd.
然后放入自己的短裤里 最后一拍打向人群
They went nuts.
观众都疯掉了
Everybody!
一起来!
龙威虎将奇乐开怀
♪ Young guns having some fun ♪
疯狂的女士们 伴其身旁
♪ Crazy ladies keep 'em on the run ♪
聪明人意识到 感情有风险...
♪ Wise guys realize There's danger in emotional ties... ♪
We keep getting bombarded with, you know, bangles.
我们不断受到手镯的轰炸
- We got dolly mixture... - The garter. Did you get the garter?
你拿到吊袜带了吗?
- 不 我昨晚拿到个胸罩 - 可爱的红色和黑色吊袜带
- No. I got a bra last night. - Lovely big red and black garter.
A pair of knickers the other night. You see them?
那天晚上是一条内裤 你看到了吗?
It's great. I mean, I love it.
很好 我喜欢
你现在更想去做点其他事吗?
Would you rather do anything else?
Not right now. What's it, Saturday night?
现在不行 今天周几?是周六晚上?
Down the Palace or something? Not really, no.
算了 去皇宫夜店?还是算了吧
It's fantastic. We're starting to get used to it.
太棒了 我们已经开始习惯了
We're starting to expect it, really.
我们开始期待这样了
But, I mean, it's fantastic. It still doesn't make any sense, really.
这是很棒 但确实没什么道理
It took us both by surprise.
这让我们俩都措手不及
The madness that was going on around us.
我们周围的那种疯狂
But for him, he got a high from it.
但对他来说 他整个人都兴奋起来了
The whole Wham!, thousands of girls screaming at you thing.
威猛乐队整场演出中 成千上万的姑娘们为你的歌唱尖叫
Once I had a taste of it,
一旦我尝到这种滋味
it was very addictive
就沉迷其中
and because I was very insecure, it was extremely addictive.
因为我非常没有安全感 所以我对此极为上瘾
新的精神状态
♪ A new state of mind ♪
This is a number called "Good Times."
这是一首叫《好时光》的歌曲
好时光...
♪ Good times... ♪
Wham!-mania had started.
威猛乐队狂热开始了
开心的日子又来了...
♪ Happy days are here again... ♪
George and his partner Andrew, best known for their knees
乔治和他的搭档 安德鲁瑞吉里 在英国大获成功的巡演中
displayed in different pairs of shorts onstage
最出名的就是从他们不同的短裤中
during their triumphant British tour.
露出的膝盖
They're a very sexy band. It was wonderful.
他们是一支很性感的乐队 表演很精彩
我很享受这一切
I thoroughly enjoyed myself.
Wham!
威猛乐队
Thank you very much.
非常感谢
Is anyone coming to see us at Whitley Bay tomorrow?
明天会有人去惠特利湾 看我们的演出吗?
好 很好
Okay, great.
我想过上运动的生活...
♪ I think I want to Live the sporting life... ♪
Come on!
来吧!
Wham! 1984 calendar.
威猛乐队1984年日历
- Go straight to... - The first...
- 直接翻到... - 首页...
No, no, no. December is the best month.
不 12月最棒了
抛开你的烦恼
♪ Leave your cares behind ♪
这是美好的时光
♪ These are the good times ♪
(威猛极了!)
我们的专辑排名第一
We had a number-one album.
好时光...
这次巡演确实大获成功
The tour was an absolute triumph.
来人啊!一起来!
Somebody! Anybody! Everybody!
The press interest was off the scale.
媒体对我们的关注超乎想象
Absolutely amazing. Absolutely brilliant.
绝对精彩 太出色了
We had a string of hit singles.
我们推出了一连串的热门单曲
And we had
但我们
zero money.
一分钱都没赚到
Andrew and I both came home off tour
我和安德鲁巡演结束后 都是直接回父母家
and would go home to Mum and Dad. It was literally that bad.
当时就是那么糟糕
Have you made a lot of money?
乔治 你赚了很多钱吗?
Um...
No, not really, and what money we've made, we probably won't get to see
没有 而且那些赚到的钱 我们可能也看不到
because it gets spent before you get to see it.
因为我们还没看到那钱 就把它们花出去了
Um...
There are reasons why we haven't made anything like as much money
我们没有赚到 大多数人以为的那么多钱
as most people would probably believe,
是有原因的 但是 你也知道...
but, you know...
You're well on the way to success. Is money coming in?
你们现在名成功就 赚到钱了吗?
Ask my mum. She's out there.
问我妈妈吧
- Is she here? - Yes.
- 她在吗? - 是的
- You bought things? - I bought a jumper.
- 你添置什么东西了吗? - 我这周买了件针织衫
- 它的价格几乎和车差不多 - 奢侈 我们的生活很奢侈
- It cost nearly as much as the car. - Lavish. We're really lavish.
那简直太荒谬了
It was absolutely ludicrous.
We received 4% apiece on singles in the UK
我们在英国可以获得4%的单曲收益 在其他国家是2%的收益
and 2% in the rest of the world.
Right. We didn't get any money on 12 inches,
是的 我们在12寸唱片上 一分都没赚到
which is what, principally, were selling at the time.
但当时我们的主打商品就是这个
I mean, the whole thing was laughable.
整件事都很可笑
When they first come to the record company,
他们刚刚进入唱片公司时
all they want is fame. Money, secondary.
一门心思想要出名 赚钱是第二位的
And suddenly they make it,
突然间他们成功了
and six months later, they're still sitting on the bus,
而六个月后 他们还在坐巴士
saying, "Shouldn't we have some money for doing this as well?"
嘴里说着: “我们不该还有坐车的钱吗?”
"Why is it held up in pipeline royalties?"
“为什么这笔钱扣在版税里不能用?”
"Why is it here?" "Why is it there?" That's when the trouble begins.
“为什么这个?” “为什么那个?” 这时候就有麻烦事了
Two 18-year-old boys being taken to a greasy spoon.
两个18岁的男孩被带到一家苍蝇小馆
The issue is, was it fair on the day it was signed?
问题是 那天签订的合约公平吗?
How can you call being told
他们被告知
that they're not gonna have their big chance at stardom
如果不签下这份合约
if they don't sign this piece of paper...
就会错失成为歌星的机会
How is that fair?
那怎么能叫公平呢?
We needed management.
我们需要经纪人
Now, I've got this book here, You Don't Have To Say You Love Me,
我手里有一本书 《你不必说爱我》
and it was written by Simon Napier-Bell,
作者是西蒙纳皮尔贝尔
who's actually here with me.
他就在我身边
In the '60s, Simon was a bit of a Svengali.
在1960年代 西蒙有点斯文加利的味道
I really took to Simon.
我真的很喜欢西蒙
On Top of the Pops, they projected themselves
在《流行歌曲精选》里 他们展现自己的方式
in a way which no other group from Top of the Pops I'd ever seen had done.
我在其他节目参与者身上 从未看到过
Both as a group, in that they understood
两者作为一个整体 他俩都知道
how to use Top of the Pops to project themselves,
如何利用这个节目来展现自己
and they came across with this incredible sort of erotic intimacy.
他们展现出了无与伦比的情欲亲密感
Anyone we met had to give us that confidence,
我们遇到的任何人 都得给予我们那种信心
and no one had until Simon.
但没人那么做过 直到西蒙出现
And so a new deal was signed directly with CBS.
这样我们直接和CBS国际唱片 签署了新合约
♪ Feel all right, huh! ♪
感觉不错 各位...
♪ Feel pretty good, y'all ♪
♪ Uh! ♪
♪ Nah, na-na-na-na ♪
♪ Na-na-na-na, na-na-na, na-na-na ♪
♪ Na-na-na-na, come on y'all Let's say it one more time... ♪
It was around that point that it was decided
就在那个时候 我们想好了
just what to do with "Careless Whisper."
要怎么对待《无心快语》
So George went to Muscle Shoals Studio in Alabama.
乔治去了位于阿拉巴马州的 肌肉浅滩工作室
I had to record it with Jerry Wexler,
我必须和杰里韦克斯勒一起录制
Aretha Franklin's producer and Ray Charles' producer,
艾瑞莎弗兰克林和雷查尔斯的制作人
and his session guys, who are called the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section,
还有他的临时乐师们 他们被称为肌肉浅滩旋律组
and they had the most stunning repertoire of work.
他们创作过最令人叹服的作品
And I was absolutely shitting myself.
我当时完全被吓住了
噢 回来吧 宝贝
♪ Oh, come back, baby ♪
宝贝 拜托别走...
♪ Baby, please don't go... ♪
George respected Jerry Wexler hugely
乔治非常尊敬杰里韦克斯勒
and was a little in awe of the great man.
他有点畏惧这位行业巨擘
I would stand there, ready to do my "I feel so unsure,"
我会站在那里 准备唱 “我觉得毫无信心”
and Jerry would say...
然后杰里会说...
Stand by.
暂停一下
"Remember, George, that's where Aretha Franklin sang "Respect,"
“乔治 你要记住 艾瑞莎弗兰克林 在那里演唱过《尊重》”
or, "Now, just remember, George,
或者说:“你务必要记住 乔治
that's where Ray Charles sang "When a Man Loves a Woman."
雷查尔斯在那里演唱过 《当男人爱上女人》”
And you're like... "Oh, thank you."
然后你会说:“多谢了”
Right? Just before you do your weedy little thing
然后开始唱自己在巴士上 胡乱写的小玩意
that you wrote on the bus.
I was really keen to hear what had been done with the track
我真的很想知道 他们是怎么处理这首歌的
因为这是我们合写的一首歌 我们都知道它原本的风格
because we'd cowritten it together, and we knew what it should sound like.
I thought, "It's got Jerry Wexler's name on it."
我当时想:“上面会写 杰里韦克斯勒的名字”
"It must be fantastic."
“肯定不错”
Yog came back,
约格回来了
and he said, "Just have a listen."
他说:“你听一下”
在我牵着你的手
♪ As I take your hand ♪
带你
♪ And lead you ♪
走向舞池之时...
♪ To the dancefloor... ♪
It had been eviscerated.
这首歌完全被掏空了
It lost all its character, its essence.
它失去了自己所有的特点 它的内核
It was average,
变成了一首普通的歌
and he said, "I don't like it either."
然后他说:“我也不喜欢它”
So it was a bit limp. It was mostly down to me.
这一版无精打采的 大部分是我的责任
Then it was suddenly, "You gotta produce it yourself."
然后他突然说:“你得自己做制作人”
♪ Though it's easy ♪
尽管欺瞒并不困难...
I then decided that I didn't actually want the Jerry Wexler mix
然后我下定决心 其实我并不想让 杰里韦克斯勒混音版
to be the final record, and I went in and recorded the whole record again.
作为最终唱片版 于是我重新录制了这张唱片
And thank Christ I did.
谢天谢地我当时这么做了
当他决定
When he took the decision to record "Careless Whisper"
要按照自己的想法 录制《无心快语》之后
the way that he wanted it to sound,
George went through ten sax players...
乔治换了十位萨克斯手...
...before Steve Gregory came in and nailed the part.
直到史蒂夫格里高利来了之后 才达到他的要求
The production of "Careless Whisper" was the second occasion, really,
《无心快语》的制作 实际上是他第二次
where he'd produced a track solely to his vision.
完全按照自己的想法制作歌曲
Yes, I had also produced a catchy song.
是的 而且我制作的这首歌曲 还朗朗上口
I remember
我记得
staying at Andrew's house,
住在安德鲁家
staying in the spare bedroom, getting up in the morning...
住在客房里 早上起床...
And I'd pinned a note on my bedroom door,
我在卧室的门上贴了一张纸条
and I'd made a mistake.
结果写的时候写错了
I'd written, "Wake me up up before you go,"
我写成了:“你走之前叫我起床床”
so I just amended the "go" to "go go."
于是我挽救了一下 把“走”写成了“走走”
It struck me that that was somehow a wonderful title for a song.
我突然意识到 这是一个非常不错的歌名
吉特巴
♪ Jitterbug ♪
很快
Next thing you know...
..."Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go."
就出现了《在你走走之前叫醒我》
你让我的心砰砰直跳
- ♪ You put the boom-boom into my heart ♪ - ♪ Ooh-ooh ♪
当你的爱降临时 你使我的灵魂直冲云霄
♪ You send my soul sky high When your loving starts ♪
吉特巴舞在...
♪ Jitterbug into my... ♪
And people loved it.
大家都很喜欢这首歌
砰砰砰的脚步声 直到我的双脚也是如此...
♪ Goes a-bang-bang-bang Till my feet do the same... ♪
"Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go"!
《在你走走之前叫醒我》!
有点不对劲
♪ Something ain't right My best friend told me what you did... ♪
我的挚友告诉了我 你昨晚...
Wham!!
威猛乐队!
你扔下我 让我在床上独自入睡...
♪ Left me sleeping in my bed... ♪
With "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go," it's Wham!!
是威猛乐队的 《在你走走之前叫醒我》!
...和你在一起
♪ ...with you instead ♪
在你走走之前叫醒我
♪ Wake me up before you go-go ♪
别让我像溜溜球一样摇摇
♪ Don't leave me hanging on like a yo-yo ♪
在你走走之前...
♪ Wake me up before... ♪
《叫醒我》成了我们第一首单曲第一
"Wake Me Up" became our first number one.
我不想错过你开心的瞬间...
♪ When you hit that high... ♪
- 你们是怎么庆祝的? - 在我爸爸的餐厅举办派对
- What did you do to celebrate? - A party at my dad's restaurant.
我还没准备好开始独行
♪ 'Cause I'm not planning on going solo ♪
♪ Wake me up before you go-go, ah ♪
在你走走之前叫醒我
今晚和我跳舞...
♪ Take me dancing tonight... ♪
他创作热门歌曲的能力
Massive validation of his ability to write hit songs that he could deliver.
得到了大众的认可
我想好好地疯一把
♪ I wanna hit that high ♪
是啊...
♪ Yeah, yeah... ♪
"Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" jumped out
《在你走走之前叫醒我》
compared to the album that I had co-produced
与我前一年合作制作的专辑相比
the year before.
独树一帜
So, suddenly, it's not just a singer-writer.
所以 突然间 我不只是歌手和词曲作者
It's a singer-writer-producer.
而是成了歌手、词曲作者和制作人
The musical community took the piss.
音乐界嘲讽全开
"I mean, how can they look like that and make music like this?"
“他们怎么能看起来一个样子 做出的音乐是另一个样子?”
一切都会没事的
♪ Everything will be all right ♪
在你走走之前叫醒我...
♪ Wake me up before you go-go... ♪
"How can the country be in love with these two idiots?"
“这个国家的人怎么会爱上 这两个白痴?”
在你走走之前叫醒我
♪ Wake me up before you go-go, ah ♪
今晚和我跳舞...
♪ Take me dancing tonight... ♪
Your record has been slagged in the press.
你们的专辑被媒体骂得体无完肤
Slagged, yeah.
体无完肤 没错
- 好的 宝贝 - 吉特巴...
- ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, baby! ♪ - ♪ Jitterbug ♪
If I was listening to someone singing that now,
如果我现在听到别人唱这首歌
and I knew that they'd written it, produced it, and sung it,
还得知他们自己谱写、制作 并且演唱了这首歌
I wouldn't be taking the piss out of them
我可不会对他们大加抨击
because they wore terrible clothes. D'you know what I'm saying?
就因为他们的衣品很糟糕 懂我的意思吧?
坐过来 宝贝 紧靠着我...
♪ Cuddle up, baby Move in tight... ♪
For a fucking 20-year-old.
20岁的人写出这首歌很厉害
...明晚
♪ ...tomorrow night ♪
外面很冷 但床上很暖...
♪ It's cold out there But it's warm in bed... ♪
Why the fuck would they be taking the piss out of me?
他们为什么要对我大加抨击?
我们还是待在家里吧
♪ We'll stay home instead ♪
吉特巴
♪ Jitterbug ♪
在你走走之前叫醒我
♪ Wake me up before you go-go... ♪
After the success of "Wake Me Up,"
在《叫醒我》成功之后 我们接着录制第二张专辑
we went on to record the second album.
The decision was taken to record it in the South of France.
我们决定在法国南部进行录制
Our label was like, "You've gotta produce it yourself,"
我们的特点就是:“必须独立制作”
whereas on the first one, I hadn't been allowed to do it myself. You know?
但在第一张专辑的时候 他们还不允许我独立制作
Château Miraval was an excellent creative environment
米拉瓦尔城堡是一个绝佳的
in which to work.
创意工作环境
George liked to write almost exclusively as part of the recording process.
乔治差不多只喜欢在录音过程中写歌
Into my most private place,
走进我最私密的地方
which is really being in the studio.
其实就是在录音棚里
I'm a producer before I'm a singer sometimes.
有时我会把制作人的身份 放在歌手之前
Andy's guitar is on 10, really, and Hugh's is on 11.
安迪的吉他是10 雨果是在11
I construct what I do
我构建我所做的事情
and literally work for hours and hours and hours.
数小时不间断地工作
My contribution to the writing and recording
我对创作和录音的贡献
was now limited to the recording.
现在仅限于录音
Whilst we had taken that decision,
虽然我们做出了这个决定
it was... it was slightly difficult.
但下决心的过程有些艰难
But it was a sacrifice that I felt I had to make.
但那是我觉得自己必须做出的牺牲
Contrary to what people say, that Andrew had no part in Wham!,
和别人说的 安德鲁对威猛乐队毫无贡献相反
it was totally the opposite. Wham! was Andrew.
现实情况完全相反 安德鲁是威猛乐队的化身
乔治年轻的时候 他一直在模仿安德鲁
And George, when he was younger, copied Andrew.
It was Andrew and Andrew, the real Andrew and the fake one.
他俩都是安德鲁 一个是真的 一个是假的
But as time went on, I think George,
但随着时间的流逝 我觉得乔治
partly because he really did feel that the group wasn't him,
一部分是因为他真的觉得 自己不是乐队的化身
uh... he put more and more effort into the songwriting and production,
所以他在词曲创作和制作方面 付出了更多努力
and Andrew was reasonably indifferent to that
安德鲁对他的所作所为 保持着理智的无动于衷
而且安德鲁是个很随和的人 于是他让乔治放手去做
and was an easy-going person, so he let George do it.
到这个时候
By this point,
we could see that his songwriting was taking him in a direction
我们可以发现 他的词曲创作 正在将他带去的方向
that was different from mine.
和我的截然相反
But he was my best friend,
但他是我的挚友
能参与到他的进化过程中 那会是很棒的体验
and to be a part of that evolution would be a great thing.
I don't think George really recognized his own talent
我觉得乔治直到两、三年前
until two, three years ago.
才意识到自己的天赋
I don't think he was fully aware of what he could achieve,
我觉得他没有完全意识到 自己能取得多大的成就
and, I mean, he's grown in confidence
我的意思是 他的自信
so much.
增长了许多
♪ Do, do, do... ♪
但你知道我会原谅你...
♪ But you know that I'll forgive you... ♪
When I write a melody in my head,
当我在脑海里写出一段旋律时
something at the back of my neck just knows that I've hit it.
我内心深处的某个地方 明确知道这会是一首热门歌曲
It's almost like it was already there,
旋律就好像已经在那里了
but you hadn't spotted where it was yet.
但你还没看到它所在的位置
It's almost like it comes to you fully formed,
感觉就像 旋律出现在你眼前时 已经很完美了
and you just pulled it out of nowhere.
你只需从一个未知之地把它取出来
And the feeling that you have that makes you shiver
这种呼之欲出的感觉 令你激动到战栗
is that you found it.
你终于找到它了
有人告诉我
♪ Somebody tell me, oh ♪
- 噢 - 你不告诉我吗?
♪ Won't you tell me? ♪
我为什么工...
♪ Why I work... ♪
约格非常确定 他的天赋能将他带向何方
Yog was very certain of where his talent could take him.
My life was a bit more straightforward.
与他相比 我的生活更加直接了当
I was living in the moment.
我活在当下
George let me take my bib off tonight.
乔治今晚允许我脱掉围兜
I never felt that our music defined me in the same way that it did for George.
我感到我们的音乐对乔治的影响 远远大于对我的影响
His songwriting was becoming the vehicle
他的词曲创作正在成为
through which he could draw out the person he wanted to be.
他塑造自己理想人格的一种媒介
I knew exactly who I was.
我很清楚自己是谁
If you think about what I was trying to do,
如果你仔细思考一下 当时我所做的那些事
只要我对歌曲感到骄傲 我的目的就达到了
as long as I was proud of the songs, that was my goal.
George was very sure of himself when it came to making music,
乔治在创作音乐时非常自信
but he was less certain in the personal aspect of his life.
但他在个人生活方面就没那么自信了
"Freedom" was the first track Yog played to me as it was being recorded.
《自由》是约格在录制专辑时 第一首放给我听的歌
It could equally have related to, uh, his sexuality.
这首歌同样可能与他的性取向有关
就像一个手握自由钥匙的囚犯
♪ Like a prisoner who has his own key ♪
但在你爱我之前 我逃不走...
♪ But I can't escape until you love me... ♪
"A prisoner who has his own key" and a "lover with another,"
“就像一个手握自由钥匙的囚犯” 还有“爱着别人的爱人”
you know, he's definitely referring to his own... dilemmas.
他肯定指的是自己进退两难的境地
作为一个年轻的男同性恋
As a young gay man,
I knew I was just uncomfortable 'cause I was closeted.
我知道自己处境艰难 因为我还没有出柜
And then I was still kidding myself that I was bisexual.
那时我还在自欺欺人 说自己是双性恋
紧紧抓住我喜欢女性的那一小部分
Hang on to the little part of myself that was attracted to women.
At that point, you know,
要知道 那个时候
if you're making...
如果你在做出...
if your goal is to become
如果你的目标是
the biggest-selling artist of, you know, that year or two,
成为那一、两年间的最畅销歌手
就肯定不会给自己找麻烦
you're not gonna make life difficult for yourself, are you?
I was too young and too immature
我当时太年轻 太不成熟
to know that I was sacrificing as much as I was.
意识不到这样做无异于牺牲了自我
作为一个还在 努力寻找自我认同的年轻男子
As a young man who was still trying to find himself,
I knew Yog had lacked confidence.
我知道当时的约格缺乏自信
But I was unaware of just how deep-seated the issues really were.
但我并没有意识到 这些问题究竟有多根深蒂固
I have a memory of that feeling of insecurity
我记得小时候那种
as a child.
不安全感
And the kind of scared teenager I was felt very vulnerable.
当时我作为一名满怀恐惧的青少年 有多么脆弱
I mean, for many years,
我是说 这么多年来
my support system was Andrew.
我的情感后盾是安德鲁
I was self-assured.
我那时很自信
One school report cited me as "disruptive."
一份学校报告说我“不守规矩”
Andrew, a very sort of confident boy.
安德鲁 一个很有自信的男孩
A very cocky boy, you know.
一个非常自大的男孩
George was a quiet boy.
乔治是个安静的男孩
Andrew was a leader.
安德鲁是个领袖
Our fathers both came from abroad.
我俩的父亲都是从国外来的
My dad's family were from Egypt.
我爸爸的家人来自埃及
My father was from Cyprus.
我父亲来自塞浦路斯
My father's father was a shepherd.
我爷爷是个牧羊人
And my father worked his arse off and reaped the rewards.
我父亲拼了老命地工作 并获得了回报
Jack viewed me with a fair degree of skepticism.
杰克对我有一定程度的怀疑
我妈妈和爸爸认为
My mum and dad thought Andrew was the worst thing
认识安德鲁是我这辈子最倒霉的事
that could ever have happened to me.
I'd visit his house, rifle through the record collection.
我会去他家 在唱片集里挑挑拣拣
We talked about Elton's album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.
我们聊艾尔顿的专辑《再见黄砖路》
One of the albums upon which our friendship was built.
其中一张专辑是我们友谊的基石
We became firm friends.
后来我们就成了密友
我是一头鳄鱼...
♪ I'm an alligator... ♪
By about the age of 14,
大概到14岁的时候
I'd completely lost any interest in education, such as it was.
我已经完全失去了对接受教育的兴趣 因为教育质量太差了
And I had this idea that, "Well, you get your A-levels,
我当时有个想法 “通过了中学高级水平考试
then you do a job for a while."
然后去找个工作干一阵子”
No.
我不乐意
All I could think about was being in a band with George.
我只想着和乔治一起组建乐队
Andrew had been quite an influence on me.
安德鲁对我影响很大
He felt the pressure from his mum and dad
他受到的父母压力远大于我受到的
far more acutely than I did from mine.
I came from a very oppressive household.
我的家庭环境很压抑
Because being the domineering father I have been or I am,
因为我一直到现在 都是一个说一不二的父亲
I wanted to dictate terms with him.
我总是想控制他
My father's idea was obviously for me to have an academic career.
我父亲显然是希望让我好好读书
I wanted him to become a doctor, an accountant.
我想让他成为一名医生、一名会计
Behave like I expect you to behave, you know?
你的行为要像我对你期待的那样 你知道吧?
I said, "You couldn't sing to save your life anyway."
“反正你又不能靠唱歌治病救人”
My father banned me from using the stereo
我父亲禁止我使用音响 禁止我购买唱片
and banned me from buying records.
He was obviously gonna make me stop wasting my time
他显然是要让我别再浪费时间
on dreams of the music business.
梦想能在音乐上有所成就
I phoned up Yog and said, "Look, we're forming a band now."
我给约格打电话说: “我们现在要组建乐队了”
"No, no, I don't think I can. I don't think we can."
“不 我觉得我做不到 我觉得我们做不到”
I provided the sort of thrust.
我提供了一种动力
He... He reluctantly agreed.
他勉强答应了
安德鲁那时候是我的偶像
Andrew was this kind of idol that I had.
He was the first person that I'd ever hung around with
他是我相处过的
第一个比我强得多的人
that was much stronger than me. Almost everything came from Andrew.
几乎我的一切都来自安德鲁
Andrew changed my life in exactly the way someone needed to change my life
安德鲁以一种我急需的方式 改变了我的人生
if I was gonna be a pop star.
以此我才能够成为流行歌曲明星
乔治斯帕纳约图
Georgios Panayiotou,
who had struggled always to define themselves inwardly,
一直努力从内在定义自己
physically, his sexuality,
在身体上、自己的性取向上
transformed into...
转变成了...
乔治迈克尔
...George Michael.
(1984年7月)
时间永远无法弥补
♪ Time can never mend ♪
好朋友的无心快语
♪ The careless whispers of a good friend ♪
♪ To the heart and mind ♪
对心灵而言
无知是福
♪ Ignorance is kind ♪
♪ There's no comfort in the truth ♪
真相中不存在安慰
你只会发现痛苦...
♪ Pain is all you'll find... ♪
We knew that "Careless Whisper" was the big single
我们早就知道《无心快语》 是个大爆单曲
right from the beginning of Wham!.
从建立威猛乐队的一开始就知道
早该知道的...
♪ Should've known better, yeah... ♪
I told George that I completely supported the idea
我跟乔治说 我完全支持他
of him releasing the song as a solo single.
把这首歌作为个人单曲推出的想法
You know, there wasn't any kind of wrangling.
当时没有任何争吵
我们一直都明白 终将会走到这一步
We always understood that there would be a point
where there was a crossover between Wham! and the start of my solo career.
我要在发展自己个人事业 和威猛乐队之间做出选择
我觉得毫无信心
♪ I feel so unsure ♪
在我牵着你的手
♪ As I take your hand ♪
带你走向舞池
♪ And lead you to the dance floor ♪
随着音乐的停息
♪ As the music dies ♪
你眼中意有所指
♪ Something in your eyes ♪
就像是心灵的荧幕
♪ Calls to mind a silver screen ♪
所有悲伤的告别
♪ And all its sad goodbyes ♪
我再也不会跳舞了
♪ I'm never gonna dance again ♪
内疚的心令舞步失去韵律
♪ Guilty feet have got no rhythm ♪
尽管欺骗并不困难
♪ Though it's easy to pretend ♪
我知道你并不愚蠢...
♪ I know you're not a fool... ♪
但这首歌在美国将被称为
But the song would be billed in the US
“威猛乐队 乔治迈克尔独唱”
as "Wham! featuring George Michael."
The thinking beyond the move was while Wham! was huge at home...
这个选择背后的考虑是 虽然威猛乐队在国内很火爆...
今夜的舞曲是如此喧嚣刺耳...
♪ Tonight the music seems so loud... ♪
...we weren't quite there in America.
...我们在美国籍籍无名
...逃离这人群
♪ ...lose this crowd ♪
也许这样做会是更好的结局
♪ Maybe it's better this way ♪
说出真心话也只会互相伤害...
♪ We'd hurt each other With the things we want to say... ♪
我们想卖光演唱会的票
We wanted to sell out stadiums, tour the world.
世界巡演
We wanted to conquer America.
我们想征服美国这块土地
George was never going to abandon the Wham! project
在没有达成我们的目标前
without us fulfilling our goals.
乔治绝对不会抛弃威猛乐队
Scrapbook 16.
第16册手账
今天的嘉宾是 安德鲁瑞吉里和乔治迈克尔
We're talking with Andrew Ridgeley and George Michael.
Your first real, major visit to the States.
你们对美国的第一次大型正式访问
(1984年10月)
It's all part of marketing.
这都是营销的一部分
They like you to go in first time and just...
他们喜欢我们的首次访问 这是为了...
To whet the appetite for the Yanks.
为了吊美国人的胃口
- 就像他们说的 奠定基础 - 是的
- Lay the groundwork, as they say. - Yeah.
I'm district manager for Sam Goody's. We're having an in-store with Wham!,
我是山姆古迪的地区经理 威猛乐队会在店里进行表演
and we're having a huge turnout, the biggest one we've ever had.
有很多人来参加 这是我们有史以来规模最大的一次
Since '81, I've been a large fan of them. See?
自从1981年开始 我就是他们的忠粉 你看这个
Official Wham! T-shirt.
官方的威猛乐队T恤
Why are they so popular? Nobody knows who they are.
他们为什么这么受欢迎? 都没人知道他们是谁
They're popular in the clubs in New York.
他们在纽约的夜店很受欢迎
- They're so gorgeous. - I know.
- 他们太帅气了 - 没错
"Wake Me Up," our first US number one.
《叫醒我》是我们 首个美国音乐榜第一
It was a huge foot in the door, but whilst it elevated us,
我们的第一步走得很成功 虽然这次访问提升了我们的知名度
it didn't confirm us as a big artist in the States,
并没有确立我们在美国的巨星地位
and we knew there was a whole lot of work still to do.
我们明白还需要下很大的功夫
And everyone still wanted to know really who we were.
大家都还想知道 我们到底是什么人
And, of course, they wanted to know about the girls.
而且当然了 他们想知道姑娘方面的事
You probably have girls following you everywhere.
可能会有很多姑娘到处追着你们
Teenage girls, and maybe a couple of...
十几岁的女孩 也许还会有一些...
A few older ones.
年龄比较大的
...following you everywhere. Is it hard to be so well known?
...到处追着你们跑 变得这么出名是不是很麻烦?
It's something you learn to live with and you accept.
这是你要学会与之共存 学会接受的事情
There are many rockers who are in it for the girls, the groupies.
有很多摇滚乐歌手就是为了 姑娘才入行的 那些追星族
These things don't seem to interest you all at all.
这些东西你们似乎一点都不感兴趣
Oh, they interest us,
我们确实对姑娘感兴趣
但我的意思是 你必须从容应对
but, I mean, you know, you have to take them... take them, um, in your stride.
- 这话说得不对 - 她们不是...
- That's the wrong way to say it. - They're not...
- After a while... - They're not paramount.
- 过一阵子... - 她们的重要性没那么高
If I can keep my, uh, feet on the ground, then I think we'll be all right.
如果我可以保持脚踏实地 那我们就没问题
And, like, what the fuck are you gonna do?
而且对这种事你也无能为力啊
If you have the option of hiding, what else are you gonna do at that age?
如果你可以选择躲起来 你在那个年纪还能做什么?
对我来说 威猛乐队所基于的
To me, the whole kind of scream experience
that Wham! was based on
狂热粉丝
couldn't possibly be seen as anything other than worrying.
只会被看作是令人担忧的事
George is totally aware of his own market. With any artist, you're selling image,
乔治很清楚自己的市场 对任何艺人来说 卖点都是个人形象
and the strongest image to anybody is a sexually identifiable image.
对任何人来说 最强烈的形象 就是独树一帜的性感形象
That's how everything is sold.
这就是营销的策略
Tabloid interest grew in that spotlight of press intrusion.
小报的兴趣在媒体入侵的聚光灯下 日益增长
I was rather more poorly behaved than George.
我当时的行为举止比乔治还要恶劣
安德鲁玩得很开
- Andrew was partying pretty hard. - I was portrayed as Randy Andy.
我被刻画成好色的安迪
(绿色内裤?)
♪ Somebody told me... ♪
有人告诉我...
Animal Andy.
发情的安迪
The press were so focused on my behavior that George flew under the radar.
媒体一心关注我的行为 于是乔治躲开了他们的雷达
(威猛乐队超级种马)
I became a bit of a lightning rod.
我变成了聚雷针
从公众的角度来看 他成了我的陪衬
A foil for me, you know, in the public sense.
♪ Is out of reach, not good enough ♪
遥不可及 这可不行
我不知道 你到底想从我这里得到什么...
♪ I don't know What the hell you want from me, oh... ♪
Basically, all through that time, I'd had three girlfriends,
基本上 在那段时间 我有过三个女朋友
and I'd cruise as well,
而且我也一直在
out in the suburbs where I grew up.
从小长大的郊区寻找床伴
Confused boy, wasn't I, really, at the time?
那个时候 我是个很困惑的男孩
- ♪ Do do do ♪ - ♪ La la la la la... ♪
I deluded myself.
我欺骗了自己
有人告诉我
- ♪ Somebody tell me, oh ♪ - ♪ Won't you tell me? ♪
- 噢 - 你不告诉我吗?
- ♪ Why I work so hard for you ♪ - ♪ Give you money... ♪
- 我为何要为你如此努力 - 给你钱...
We went on a major UK tour.
我们开始了一次重要的英国巡演
♪ And now you tell me That you're having my baby ♪
现在你告诉我 你有了我的孩子
♪ I'll tell you that I'm happy If you want me to... ♪
我会告诉你 我很开心 如果你愿意的话...
It was a far bigger scale.
规模超大的一次巡演
♪ One step further ♪
(伦敦)
♪ And my back will break ♪
(大型巡演 1984年至1985年)
♪ If my best isn't... ♪
如果最好的我依旧...
And we were selling out arenas.
我们演唱会的票都卖空了
(都柏林)
We had fun with the album title.
我们在专辑名称上花了巧思
Wham! Make It Big.
威猛乐队 功成名就
It was George's idea. It was a great idea.
这是乔治的主意 这是个好主意
It amused us immensely,
这让我们俩乐不可支
and that was one of the primary drivers for a lot of things we did.
这是我们所做的很多事情的 主要驱动力之一
We were gonna take it around the world.
我们要带着它世界巡演
It's Wham! Day and coming to you from an exotic location...
今天是威猛乐队表演日 这里是富有异国情调的...
(威猛乐队 日本站)
♪ How can it be good enough for two? ♪
(东京)
Because Wham! are big all around the world.
因为威猛乐队在全世界都很火爆
To get a glimpse of Wham!,
为了能看一眼威猛乐队
they camped overnight at Melbourne Airport.
歌迷在墨尔本机场外露营 等了一整晚
(悉尼)
Wham!
威猛乐队
有人告诉我
- ♪ Somebody tell me, oh ♪ - ♪ Won't you tell me? ♪
- 噢 - 你不告诉我吗?
- ♪ Why I work so hard for you ♪ - ♪ Give you money ♪
- 我为何要为你如此努力 - 给你钱
♪ Oh, to give you money, oh! ♪
噢 给你钱 噢...
But despite a successful tour,
尽管巡演非常成功
for George,
但对乔治来说
chart position was the ultimate validation of his talent.
排行榜才是对其天赋的最终评判
(威猛乐队 第一名)
To get to number one really mattered to him.
拿到第一名对他来说真的很重要
(1《自由》威猛乐队)
♪ Oh! ♪
(1《无心快语》 3 《自由》)
♪ Why do I do the things I do? ♪
我为什么要做这些事...
(1《功成名就》 威猛)
♪ I'd tell you if I knew... ♪
如果我知道 就会告诉你...
George needed success as a songwriter
乔治需要作为词曲作者的成功
for personal affirmation.
来获得个人肯定
♪ I don't even think that I love you ♪
我甚至不觉得我爱你...
某个星期日
One Sunday,
at his mum and dad's house, there was a football match on the TV.
在他妈妈爸爸的家里 电视里正在播放一场足球赛
No one was in except Andrew and I.
除了我和安德鲁 没人在家
And Yog just sat up bolt upright and said, "I've gotta go upstairs."
约格一下子跳起来说:“我要上楼”
"I've got an idea."
“我有了个想法”
And I wrote it on one of those four-track portastudios.
我把曲子录到 那个四轨移动磁带录音机里
I went downstairs, and I said to Andrew, "I've done it."
我走下楼 对安德鲁说:“我写好了”
I said, "We're gonna have four number ones this year,
“今年我们要取得四个第一
and we're gonna have a Christmas number one,
我们会获得圣诞节第一
and I've just written it."
我刚已经把歌写好了”
I played it to him, and he went, "Fuck yeah, that's... Yeah."
我给他播放了一遍 他说: “老天啊 这可真是...厉害”
你懂我的意思吗?
Know what I mean?
圣诞快乐
♪ Happy Christmas ♪
The "Last Christmas" video shoot,
《去年圣诞》的音乐视频
we shot it in Saas-Fee in Switzerland,
我们在位于瑞士阿尔卑斯山高处的
high in the Alps.
萨斯费进行拍摄
♪ Ah, ah ♪
(威猛乐队 《去年圣诞》)
♪ Last Christmas, I gave you my heart ♪
去年圣诞 我将心交给你
♪ But the very next day You gave it away ♪
但是第二天 你就弃我而去
♪ This year... ♪
今年...
Christmas was a big deal for Yog, always.
圣诞节对约格来说一直都很重要
"Last Christmas" had to convey all of that.
《去年圣诞》必须传达出这一切
♪ Last Christmas... ♪
我们所感受到的那种圣诞氛围
That sense of Christmas as we perceived it, a fantasy.
一种奇幻感
♪ You gave it away... ♪
你弃我而去...
"Last Christmas" was all our mates, basically.
《去年圣诞》拍摄基本上 用的都是我们的朋友
And we had a whale of a time.
我们在那里度过了一段美好的时光
- ♪ ...to someone special ♪ - ♪ Special ♪
...给一个特别的人...
Spirits were really high, as you can imagine.
你可以想象 大家的兴致都很高
我们热衷于出自己的洋相
We were so taking the piss out of ourselves.
♪ Once bitten and twice shy... ♪
一朝被蛇咬 十年怕井绳...
And I remember, as we went through the filming of the day...
我记得 我们结束了一天的拍摄之后...
The assistant director, in his wisdom,
傻乎乎的助理导演 把每个杯子都倒得满满当当
had filled each glass to the brim.
Real booze, loads of booze.
都是烈酒 很多烈酒
♪ It doesn't surprise me ♪
And I think our joint humor went into so much of what we did.
而且我认为我们共同的幽默 融入了我们所做的很多事情
I think there was a deliberate attempt
我认为 当时我们有意
at avoiding true slickness at all costs.
不惜一切代价避免真正的肤浅
♪ ...what a fool I've been... ♪
...我曾经多么愚蠢...
You know, it went downhill from there.
从那时起 情况就开始失控
Knockin' it back, getting gradually more drunk.
不停地一口干 越来越醉
♪ Last Christmas, I gave you my heart... ♪
去年圣诞 我将心交给你...
我觉得有趣的是 到处都是头发
What I think's funny is how much hair there is.
You can barely see the people for all the hair.
头发太多 你几乎都看不清是谁
♪ This year, to save me from tears ♪
今年 为了不再泪流
♪ I'll give it to someone special... ♪
我会将我的心给一个特别的人...
It was mayhem.
一片混乱
It was a remarkable video shoot that it ever got made, actually,
实际上 这是一次非凡的视频拍摄
to be honest with you.
我就实话实说了
♪ But you tore him apart ♪
你却将那外表扯碎
♪ Maybe next year... ♪
也许明年...
We knew we had a number one on our hands.
我们知道自己已经取得了多项第一
The release was for the second week in December.
12月的第二周推出了新歌
一张特版流行唱片的销售
The Ethiopian famine appeal
会推动大家对埃塞俄比亚饥荒的关注
will be boosted by sales of a special pop record.
Over 25 stars sang for nothing at today's recording session in London,
超过25位歌手在伦敦今日的 录制过程中 免费献唱
and all the proceeds will go to famine relief.
所有收益都将用来饥荒救济
When we returned from Saas-Fee,
当我们从萨斯费回来的时候
the office sent a request
办公室发出一份
to attend a recording for a charity record.
参加慈善录制活动的要求
When Bob Geldof of the Boomtown Rats
当布姆镇鼠的鲍勃格尔多夫 看到来自埃塞俄比亚的电视画面时
saw the TV pictures from Ethiopia,
he decided he had to do something,
他决定自己必须做点什么
and he found his rock-music friends felt the same.
他发现自己的摇滚乐朋友们也有同感
So George Michael of Wham!, Sting of the Police,
于是威猛乐队的乔治迈克尔 警察乐队的史汀
Tony Hadley of Spandau Ballet,
史班杜芭蕾的汤尼哈德利
Bananarama, and a score of other stars
芭娜娜拉玛和其他群星歌手
gathered to record a Christmas song with a message,
齐聚一堂 录制一首 表示自己态度的圣诞歌曲
from which all the profits will go to Ethiopia.
所有收益都将捐给埃塞俄比亚
♪ Feed the world... ♪
喂饱全世界...
I always get really shy when there's loads and loads of other pop stars about.
当有很多其他流行歌星在场时 我总是会很害羞
I just tend to clam up a bit.
我会突然一声不吭
But it's been good. The song's really catchy.
但一切都很顺利 这首歌很朗朗上口
这对我们冲击第四次第一 构成了严重的威胁
It's a major threat to our fourth number one.
你们的第四次第一? 你们下一首单曲是什么?
Fourth number one. What's your next single?
It's called "Last Christmas." It's a Christmas single.
名字是《去年圣诞》
- Is it very Christmassy? - Very.
- 很有圣诞氛围吗? - 非常有
我没法叫你唱几句 你会很郁闷
I can't ask you to sing a bit. You'll get mortified.
- You can't ask? I'll sing you a bit. - All right.
- 我唱几句给你听 - 好吧
- It goes... - Right.
- 是这样... - 好
♪ Last Christmas, I gave you my heart ♪
去年圣诞 我将心交给你
♪ But the very next day You gave it away... ♪
但是第二天 你就弃我而去...
- I'm not giving you any more than that. - That was good.
- 我不能再多唱了 - 很好听
I'll go and tell all my girlfriends, "George sang to me."
我会跟我所有的女性朋友说: “乔治对我唱歌了”
♪ But say a prayer... ♪
但要祈祷...
这就是救世乐队那首
That's what was so ironic about Band Aid, "Do They Know It's Christmas?".
《他们知道今天是圣诞节吗?》的 讽刺之处
Everyone else was just thinking how fantastic it is.
其他人都在想 这首歌相当了不起
It's gonna be great. It's gonna be number one.
肯定会是第一名 肯定会获得这样或那样的成绩
It's gonna be this, that.
And I had all those same feelings about it,
我对此也有同感
but I just had this little bastard ego thing
但我又有点混蛋的自负感
that I just had to keep squashing that was going, "Shit! Shit! Shit! Shit!"
我不得不时刻压制它 它总是在说:“完了!”
"Shit!" You know what I mean?"
“完了!” 你懂我的意思吧?
Because this little ego inside me had had the master plan
因为内心的自负驱使我制定了
for the four number one singles this year,
实现四首排名第一单曲的重大计划
and it had all worked. Everything was ready.
一切都进展顺利 万事俱备
The final BBC top 20 of 1984.
英国广播公司1984年前20名 最终入选名单
Wham! with "Last Christmas," still at number two.
威猛乐队的《去年圣诞》还是第二名
第二周和圣诞节的第一名
And at number one for the second week, number one for Christmas, Band Aid.
是救世乐队
♪ Feed the world... ♪
喂饱全世界...
"Do They Know It's Christmas?" became an absolutely monster hit.
《他们知道今天是圣诞节吗?》 实现了超凡的火爆
♪ No rain or rivers flow... ♪
没有雨水 河水不再流淌...
The world responded.
全世界都回应了
♪ Do they know it's... ♪
他们知道今天...
Some good news this morning from Wham!.
今早我们收到威猛乐队的 一个好消息
Even though they're at number two, haven't made number one,
尽管他们在圣诞排行榜不是第一名
they are donating all the royalties of their record worldwide
但他们要将 自己在全世界的唱片版税收益
to the Ethiopia fund,
捐给埃塞俄比亚基金
so that's numbers one and two
这就是第一名和第二名
totally in aid of the Ethiopia famine fund.
对埃塞俄比亚饥荒基金的全力支持
It was still a strange feeling to drive home
开车回家时 我还是感觉很奇怪
因为我怀着世界上最美好的愿望
'cause, you know, with the best will in the world,
努力成为最伟大的利他主义者
trying to be the greatest altruist in the world,
and having given every penny that "Last Christmas" has ever made
并将《去年圣诞》赚到的每一分钱
to African relief funds,
都捐给了非洲救济基金
然后那个该死的...
and that bastard little... little... that bastard insecure little thing
那个没有安全感的小混蛋
that wanted his four number ones that year, you know...
想要的是那一年的四个第一
It's irrational
这是非理性的想法
and comes from a place of fear.
源自于自身的恐惧
虽然我很高兴能在一个乐队里
Whilst I was happy just being in a band,
George needed more.
但乔治需要更多
He needed recognition. That was what he wanted.
他需要被世人认可 那才是他想要的
Affirmation of who he was.
对他本人的认可
The award season continues.
颁奖季还在继续
The official Oscars of the music business
音乐界的官方奥斯卡颁奖典礼
were presented at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London.
在伦敦的格罗夫纳酒店举行
(1985年 艾弗诺韦洛奖)
Probably one of the best songwriters out of Britain
他可能是我长期以来 在英国听到的最好的词曲作者之一
for a long time.
And that's serious.
我是认真的
People tend to put Wham! down as a teenybopper band that won't last.
人们倾向于把威猛乐队 看作是不会长久的青少年乐队
The people that put them down are the bands that won't last.
那些看轻他们的人 才是不会长久的乐队
I'm experienced enough to know. You can tell a great songwriter.
我有足够的经验来判断 我能很快辨别出优秀的词曲作者
On stage, I compared him to Barry Gibb, Paul McCartney,
在舞台上 我把他和巴里吉布 保罗麦卡特尼
约翰列侬这些人相提并论
John Lennon, people like that. Um...
He has got what Bowie and I would've loved to have had
他有我和鲍伊在21岁、22岁时
非常向往的东西
when we were 21, 22.
Um...
And I'm not talking about performing on stage, records...
我说的不是在舞台上的表演
The man's a great songwriter, and this award ceremony today,
他是个很棒的词曲作者 而今天的颁奖典礼
it's about songwriting.
重点正是词曲创作
这是我获得过最重要的奖项
It's the most important thing that I've ever received
是我的一大幸事
and that's happened to me.
And, uh, I'd just like to say thank you to BASCA
我只想说 感谢 英国歌曲创作、作曲与词作家学院
and thank you to everyone who's bought our records
感谢所有在过去几年
for the last couple of years. Thank you.
购买过我们唱片的人 谢谢
(哭泣的威猛乐队歌手)
I was kind of in shock that that had happened.
我对能够获此殊荣感到震惊
The idea of being in the same room with famous people
与那些认可你是音乐家的名人们
that actually recognize you as a musician, people like Elton John, you know...
共处一室 比如艾尔顿约翰
It took me a long time to get used to the idea.
我花了很长时间才适应
Scrapbook 25.
第25册手账
China.
中国
♪ Every day, I hear a different story ♪
(北平 北京)
♪ People saying That you're no good for me ♪
(1985年4月)
♪ Saw your lover with another ♪
看到你那爱着别人的爱人
♪ And she's making a fool of you ♪
她在愚弄你...
♪ Oh... ♪
It is indeed a rare privilege...
这确实是一次难得的特殊待遇...
...to say that my partner, Andrew, and I are deeply honored...
...我和我的搭档安德鲁深感荣幸...
I'm not gonna be able to read my own handwriting.
我随后会看不懂自己写了什么
没什么新鲜的 对吧?
Nothing new, is it?
Our manager, Simon, proposed to us
我们的经纪人西蒙 提议我们去中国演几场
that we do a couple of shows in China.
And it was a very clever idea.
这是个非常聪明的主意
America was really interested in Communist China.
美国对共产主义中国很感兴趣
As the first modern pop group ever to go...
作为第一个前往中国的 现代流行乐团...
My stupid partner and myself...
我和我的的蠢搭档...
...we'd attract global attention...
...我们吸引了全球的关注...
♪ I don't want your freedom... ♪
我不希望你自由...
...and bust America open wide.
...完全打开了美国市场
Let's get down to truth here.
我们还是说实话吧
...are deeply flattered and privileged by the invitation
...受邀在中国公众面前演出
to play in front of the Chinese "pube-lic."
我们着实受宠若惊
♪ I don't need your freedom ♪
我不需要你的自由
姑娘 我现在只想要你
♪ Girl, all I want right now is you ♪
♪ Do, do, do ♪
♪ Whoa, whoa, yeah ♪
哇哦 耶
♪ You put the boom-boom Into my heart ♪
你让我的心砰砰直跳
♪ You send my soul sky high When your loving starts ♪
当你的爱降临时 你使我的灵魂直冲云霄
- ♪ Jitterbug into my brain ♪ - ♪ Yeah, yeah ♪
- 吉特巴舞跳入我的大脑 - 耶
砰砰砰的脚步声 直到我的双脚也是如此...
♪ Goes a-bang-bang-bang Till my feet do the same... ♪
Our idea was to project fun, exuberance.
我们的想法是激发快乐和活力
The values of Wham!.
威猛乐队的价值观
Our band and Shirlie and Pepsi, everyone was committed.
我们的乐队 还有雪莉和百事 大家都全力以赴
One, two, three...
一、二、三...
♪ See me, single and free No fears, no tears, what I want to be ♪
看看我 单身又自由 没有恐惧 没有眼泪 自由随意
♪ One, two, take a look at you ♪
一、二 看看你
♪ Death by matrimony ♪
被婚姻折磨得如此痛苦
♪ Whoo! ♪
昨晚在北京
In Peking last night, it was a two-man cultural revolution.
那是一场二人的文化革命
On stage, the British pop duo called Wham!
在舞台上 英国流行二人组威猛乐队
in the first big-name Western rock concert ever on mainland China.
举办了在中国大陆有史以来第一次 西方摇滚乐演唱会
You won't be able to see the person in New York
你们看不到纽约的采访者
who's interviewing you, but you'll be able to hear their audio.
但能够听到采访者的声音
Look, we're on telly.
看啊 我们上电视了
Wham! in China.
威猛乐队在中国
Good morning, George. Good morning, Andrew.
早上好 乔治 早上好 安德鲁
- Morning. - Good evening, Phyllis.
- 早上好 - 晚上好 菲莉斯
George, let's... George is the blond,
乔治 我们...乔治是金发的那个
and Andrew is the brunette.
安德鲁是那个黑发男子
I say this because this is a first for you all.
我这么解释一下 因为这是你们的首次出镜
Everybody's so excited to have you all on our television here.
大家都很兴奋 能请你们做客我们的节目
安德鲁之前从未被叫过“黑发男子”
Andrew, he's just really never been called a brunette here.
- 如果... - 我感到受宠若惊 菲莉斯
- Oh. - That's very flattering, Phyllis.
Why do you think that they allowed Wham! to perform there?
你觉得他们为什么允许 威猛乐队去那边演出?
I think they see us as fairly safe
我觉得他们认为我们比较安全
because we don't really represent rock and roll.
因为我们代表的不是摇滚乐
We represent more, you know... I don't know, show business, pop,
我们代表的更宽泛 我说不清楚 代表演艺圈、流行音乐
but the videos and the records,
但他们只了解我们的
which, after all, is all they know about us,
那些视频和唱片
haven't shown any kind of real rock and roll,
没给他们看过真正摇滚乐的那部分
sex and drugs angle, I suppose.
性和毒品方面的事 我猜是这样
You're saying because of your clean cut, wholesome image?
你说是因为你们干净健康的形象?
Yeah. Onstage, anyway.
是的 反正在舞台上是这样
Wait a minute. What are you like offstage?
等一下 你们在台下是什么样的?
A lot of our viewers would like to know.
很多观众都想知道
I'm sure they'd like to know. We'll let them use their imaginations.
我想他们肯定想知道 还是让他们发挥一下想象力吧
Okay. Thank you, George, Andrew. You're terrific.
谢谢 乔治 安德鲁 你们太棒了
That was all right.
一切顺利 对吧?
好了 我们进城去看看 找些妹子 大干一场
Right, let's go out on the town. Pick up some birds. Do the business.
- Is that cold? - Yeah.
- 有冷气吗? - 有的
Best air conditioning in, uh...
中国最好的...
"Chinois."
空调
♪ Baby, I'm your man ♪
宝贝 我是你的男人
这确实让美国市场有所改观
It really did make that difference in America.
The press response was massive.
媒体的反应非常热烈
In Communist China, Wham! prompted millions of new swingers.
在共产主义中国 威猛乐队 激发了数以百万计的新浪子
摇滚以演唱会的形式进入中国
Rock has come to China in concert form to see the British rock group Wham!.
来观看英国摇滚乐威猛乐队的演出吧
♪ Do it right ♪
♪ Right, do it with me ♪
♪ If you're gonna do it... ♪
It did elevate our status
这确实提升了
我们作为全球现象级事物的地位
as a global phenomenon.
♪ So good, you're divine... ♪
但同时 我心里有个微弱的声音在说
But at the same time, I had this little voice inside going,
“我该怎么办?”
you know, "What am I gonna do?"
I was intelligent enough to know that this was the wrong road.
我足够聪明 知道这条路不适合我
If I was looking for happiness,
如果我要寻找幸福
I should not be trying to catch up with Michael Jackson
就不该试图跟随迈克尔杰克逊
or Madonna or whatever,
或是麦当娜的脚步
但这就是我现在正要去做的事
which was absolutely what I was intent on doing.
The character that he was having to present
他必须呈现的形象
很难与他的情感需求相协调
was so hard to reconcile with what he needed emotionally.
I wanna be able to develop as a human being,
我想成为有血有肉的人 不断进步
but I feel trapped.
但我感觉自己被困住了
His future as a solo artist
他个人单飞的未来
was dependent on Wham! becoming as successful
依赖于威猛乐队要像
as the likes of Prince or Elton.
普林斯或者艾尔顿那么成功
I don't think there's any way I could've controlled my ego enough
我不认为有什么方法 可以充分控制住我的自负
to have stopped me exploring the possibility
阻止我试图成为全世界
of being the biggest-selling artist in the world.
最畅销艺人的企图
Andy!
虽然我开始觉得名气令人苦恼
However distressing I was beginning to find fame,
my ego couldn't possibly have been stopped at that time.
我那时候的自负无人能挡
(第30册 1985年7月15日至8月24日)
After Band Aid,
在救世乐队之后 有人组织了一场 被称为拯救生命的全球演出活动
a live event was conceived called Live Aid. It was a global event.
Yog had been invited to perform with Elton John.
约格受邀和艾尔顿约翰一同表演
The show will be seen by more than one billion people,
这场演出将有超过十亿人观看
and some of the younger performers may be a little nervous tomorrow.
一些年轻的表演者 明天可能会有点紧张
I don't know anything about the billion people.
十亿观众的话 我可说不好
It's gonna be difficult enough for me there being 75,000 in front of me
这对我来说会非常难 我面前有七万五千人
because I've never played in front of that many people.
因为我从来没有 当着那么多人的面表演过
(1985年 拯救生命)
It was a chance for him to shine globally.
这是他在国际上大放异彩的机会
Onstage, Mr. George Michael.
现在上台的是乔治迈克尔先生
And the song "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me"
歌曲《别让太阳在我面前落下》
was stitched into George's musical DNA.
被乔治的音乐基因吸取
♪ But you misread... ♪
你却误读了...
I idolized Elton as a child,
我从小就把艾尔顿看作偶像
and when I'm with him,
当我和他一起演出时
I get a little voice from a nine-year-old, you know, "God, I can't believe I'm here!"
我听到一个九岁孩子的声音 “老天 我不敢相信我站在这里!”
♪ Closed the door ♪
关上门
♪ And left me blinded ♪
留给我
♪ By the light... ♪
光的影翳...
一起来!
- - Everyone!
♪ Don't let the sun go down on me, yeah ♪
别让太阳在我面前落下
♪ Don't let the sun ♪
别让太阳
♪ Although I search myself ♪
虽然我寻找自己
♪ It's always someone else I see... ♪
往往看到的是别人...
约格建议我做一些伴唱
Yog suggested that I might do some backing vocals.
♪ ...of your life ♪
...你的人生
♪ To wander free... ♪
自由地流浪...
我很高兴他邀请我 但那是他的高光时刻
It was nice to be invited, but it was his moment.
♪ Yeah ♪
耶
然而失去一切
♪ But losing everything ♪
♪ Is like the sun going down on me... ♪
就像太阳在我面前落下...
乔治凭借自己的能力 逐渐成为一名艺术家
George was emerging as an artist in his own right.
At Live Aid, more than a billion people got to see that for themselves.
超过10亿人在拯救生命演唱会上 亲眼目睹了这一幕
就像太阳在我面前落下
♪ Like the sun going down on me ♪
And then the encore was bonkers because everyone was up onstage.
随后的安可超级疯狂 因为所有人都上了台
♪ Throw your arms around the world... ♪
向世界张开双臂...
我们和大卫鲍伊和弗雷迪默丘里 同台献唱
We were rubbing shoulders with David Bowie and Freddie Mercury.
♪ But say a prayer ♪
但要祈祷...
♪ Pray for the other ones ♪
为其他人祈祷
♪ At Christmastime, it's hard... ♪
在圣诞节时 这很艰辛...
It was a surreal experience...
那是一次超现实的体验
你们玩得开心吗?
- - Have you had fun?
♪ Well, tonight... ♪
...with these absolute icons of the industry.
这些我们行业中公认的偶像们
♪ Instead of you... ♪
Everyone!
一起来!
这是一个巨大的提升
It was a huge step up.
But it was just the beginning.
但那只是个开始
♪ Ah! La, la la, la la ♪
(在美国度过了美好的时光)
♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
♪ La, la la, la la ♪
耶
♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
(1985年 威猛乐队美国巡演)
♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
♪ La, la la, la la ♪
♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
耶
♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah... ♪
耶...
Wham! fans young and old
威猛乐队的粉丝们 不论老少 都来看乔治迈克尔和安德鲁瑞吉里
came to see George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley
for their current US tour.
正在举办的美国巡演
♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
耶
♪ I would lock you up ♪
我会把你锁起来 但我无法忍受 你挣扎时的尖叫...
♪ But I could not bear To hear you screaming... ♪
The US stadium tour, Wham! America,
威猛乐队美国巡演的美国体育馆站
was a big risk.
风险很大
(迈阿密)
♪ The only one that mattered Was me, me, me... ♪
我...
At that point, Wham! had never played a stadium anywhere.
那时 威猛乐队还从未在体育场 开过演唱会
It was a big gamble.
那是一次豪赌
♪ It's too late to stop Won't the heavens save me? ♪
现在停手已太晚 天堂会拯救我吗...
But it paid off.
但我们赌赢了
(威猛乐队大捷)
♪ Take me to the edge of heaven ♪
带我来到天堂的边界...
♪ One last time might be... ♪
(20万疯狂的粉丝)
The British duo that's taken the pop world by storm.
英国二人组风靡流行音乐界
Racking up three number-one records in the United States.
在美国创造了三项第一的记录
In America, they were so big.
在美国 他们非常火爆
And I looked, and I thought, "God, they've all come to see my son."
我看了看 然后心想: “上帝 他们都是来看我儿子的”
Could have kissed him, hugged him, cuddled him, squeezed him. You understand?
可能会亲他、抱他 公主抱他、使劲抱他 你明白吗?
He made me a very, very proud man.
他让我非常骄傲
毫无疑问
No doubt about it. Wham! did make it big in America.
威猛乐队确实在美国功成名就
I did a very big U-turn.
我的看法完全变了
干得好 儿子
Well done, boy.
♪ Baby I get excited at the things that you... ♪
At what point did you realize
你什么时候意识到
you were going to be a major star in America?
自己会在美国成为大明星?
It was proper superstar status.
完全是超级巨星的待遇
We'd broken America.
我们征服了美国
晚安!谢谢!
Good night! Thank you!
You've been brilliant! See you soon.
你们太棒了!我们回头见
♪ Take me to the edge of heaven ♪
♪ One last time might be forever... ♪
这次的成功远远超出我的梦想
The success was so much more than I had ever dreamed of.
And so...
然后...
whilst we crisscrossed the States,
在我们穿越美国的同时
the questions were, "Where do we go from here?"
新的问题是“下一步我们要做什么?”
You've made it bigger than almost anybody this year.
你们今年的成就远超其他人
How does it feel right in the middle of it?
你们身处其中的感觉如何?
会觉得这是世界上最了不起的事吗?
Does it feel like it's the biggest thing in the whole world?
I think the, um...
我觉得...
the success in America over the last year, although we've worked very hard for it,
去年我们在美国的成功 虽然我们为此付出了很多努力
I think it's actually been the biggest surprise,
但我觉得这次成功 实际上是最大的惊喜
the actual speed of success, that we've come across
我们取得成功的速度
我们在这行的这三年中取得的成功
during the three years we've been in the business,
just in terms of I think that we do need some time to actually sit back,
在某些方面...我认为我们确实应该 花时间冷静一下
and I think we're just gonna move on, do something different now, I think.
我们要继续前进 我认为我们要进行新的尝试
In reality, the turning point with Wham! was nothing to do with Wham!.
实际上 威猛乐队的转折点 其实和威猛乐队本身毫无关系
The turning point with Wham! was me as I suddenly thought,
威猛乐队的转折点是我 我突然觉得
"Oh my God, I'm a massive star,
“天啊 我是个巨星
and I'm gay,"
而且我是同性恋”
由此也引发了抑郁之情 这一切都源自我的自我限制
and the depression was about that. It was about the way I'd boxed myself in.
要知道 许愿时得小心
You know, careful what you wish for.
We had achieved everything
我们作为一个超级巨星乐队
as that superstar band,
已经功成名就
and we were growing up.
而且我们在逐渐长大
It got to a point where I didn't want any more of it.
到了我已经想摆脱这一切的时候了
Are you jealous of his solo success?
你是在嫉妒他的独唱成就吗?
Don't mention the solo stuff!
- 别提独唱的... - 没有 我也在其中也很重要
No, I feel I'm a big part of it, you know?
- What are you gonna do when it stops? - What am I gonna do?
- 当一切停息后 你要做什么? - 我要做什么?
Hopefully, I'll retire with grace or do something with grace.
希望我能优雅地退休 或者优雅地做其他事
Because I'd come out to Andrew,
因为我已经对安德鲁出柜了
he understood there was more than a band at stake.
他明白现在不只是乐队岌岌可危
It was kind of my sanity,
还包括我的理智
and he didn't put any pressure on me to continue.
他没有给我任何 一定要继续下去的压力
He already knew why I was feeling trapped.
他已经知道 我为什么会感觉被困住了
How do you feel when George has a hit that you're not in,
你对于乔治爆红 但与你无关 这件事有何感想?
and when he does music with other artists?
还有他与其他艺人合作的时候?
- Do you feel left out? - No, no. I think it's...
- 你觉得自己被忽略了吗? - 没有 我觉得他理应如此
I think it's what he should be doing.
这让他自己的艺术创造力得以扩展
You know, it allows his own artistic, um... creativity to expand,
you know, which you've got to do.
这是你必须要做的
你基本上是在说
You're basically saying
如果对乔治有用 那没问题 你就可以接受
is that if it works for George, fine, and what works for you is fine.
Yeah.
是的
There are occasionally rumors that you two may separate,
偶尔会有传闻说 你俩可能会分开
go opposite directions. Can you foresee such a time, Andrew?
安德鲁 你觉得会发生这种事吗?
- Such a time? There'll be a time, yeah. - Mm.
这种事吗?有可能的 是的
我觉得安德鲁已经做好了结束的准备
I think Andrew was ready to finish because,
因为 尽管他理解自己的重要性
much as he understood his importance,
he... he was tired of being,
但他已经厌倦了
you know, taken potshots at
总是被大众认为是个幸运儿
as the lucky guy that's kind of coasted along with George Michael,
只是搭上了乔治迈克尔的便车 我认为他的能力不止如此
and I think, you know, he was so much more than that.
必须要在某个时候结束
Had to end at some point.
We... We both knew that.
我们俩都心知肚明
(第40册 1986年2月10日至2月21日)
(威猛乐队解散!)
成千上万的威猛乐队粉丝 花费整个周末
Thousands of Wham! fans spent the weekend queuing
排队购买这个流行二人组 告别演唱会的门票
to get tickets for the pop duo's farewell concert.
25,000 fans descended upon Wembley Stadium yesterday
昨天有两万五千名粉丝 来到了温布利球场
in a bid to get tickets for their farewell concert.
就是为了买到他们告别演唱会的门票
Performing one show was symbolic.
这一场演出是象征性的
There could only be one final show.
只能有一场终场表演
Tickets are expected to be sold out within hours.
门票预计会在几个小时内售完
I'm sitting next to Wham!.
我正坐在威猛乐队的身边
Here we are.
我们来了
"The legend that is George Michael," you're supposed to say.
你应该说:“传奇的乔治迈克尔身边”
Yeah. I'm sitting next to the legend that is George Michael.
是的 我坐在传奇的乔治迈克尔身边
And his friend.
还有他的朋友
Former partner.
前搭档
And do you think you'll be very sad on the last concert?
你们在最后一场演唱会上 会感到悲伤吗?
Or do you think it'll be jolly?
或者会感到开心吗?
- 我觉得我会... - 开心
- I think it'll be... - Happy.
I think it'll be a bit of both.
我觉得会两者都有
I think it'll be probably the best concert we've ever done,
我觉得这可能会是我们有史以来 最棒的演唱会
and I think it'll be rather sad that it's the last.
我觉得作为最后一场演唱会 一定会很伤感
- Disappointing if it isn't. - Mm. Let's pray that it's a nice day.
- 如果不是最棒的一场 会很令人失望 - 我们祈祷是个好天气吧
Let's all keep our fingers crossed that the sun shines,
让我们一起祈祷会是个晴天
God smiles upon us, and Wham! ends as it began,
让我们愿望成真 威猛乐队有始有终
with a smile on its face.
开头结尾都面带微笑
Fantastic ending.
精彩绝伦的结局
- I love you. - Tore at my heartstrings.
- 我爱你 - 我的心都要碎了
(1986年6月28日)
We want Wham!! We want Wham!! We want Wham!! We want Wham!!
我们要见威猛乐队!
(终章)
我们要见威猛乐队!
Andrew, George, ITN. What's it like to play your last concert?
安德鲁 乔治 独立电视新闻 要举行最后一次演唱会是什么感觉?
- We're excited. - We'll let you know afterwards.
- 兴奋 - 结束后我们再告诉你
- Yeah! - Any regrets?
- 没错! - 有没有后悔分开?
None whatsoever. Huge thank you to everyone...
完全没有 非常感谢大家
Not only today, but for the last four years.
不只是为了今天 也为了过去四年感谢大家
- All right. - Thanks a lot.
- 好吧 再见 - 多谢了
Cheers.
One, two, three, go!
一、二、三 开始!
♪ Whoo! ♪
I was very proud.
我非常自豪
I was very proud that day.
那天我很骄傲
♪ Yeah ♪
所以我们把热门歌曲又唱了一遍
And so we played the hits one more time.
Good evening!
晚上好!
This is "Club Tropicana."
这首是《热带俱乐部》
女士们 先生们 有请百事和雪莉!
Ladies and gentlemen, Pepsi and Shirlie!
♪ Dear Mummy, dear Daddy ♪
亲爱的妈妈 亲爱的爸爸
♪ Now I'm 19 ♪
♪ Oh yeah, I was your only son... ♪
我是你们唯一的儿子...
By the end of it,
到演唱会最后
I had no doubt that I could become
我对自己能够成为一名
an international solo success.
成功的国际独唱歌手已毫不怀疑
This one is called "Wake Me Up Before You..."
这首歌叫做《在你走走之前...》
Go-Go!
《叫醒我》!
等我们走上舞台
By the time we stepped out on that stage,
the second incarnation was almost complete.
他的第二次涅槃几乎已经完成了
Yog
约格
has become the artist that he was destined to be.
已经成为他注定要成为的艺术家
你也是...
♪ And you do... ♪
One more time!
再来一次!
♪ I don't want your freedom ♪
我不希望你自由
♪ I don't want to play around ♪
我不想再继续胡闹
♪ I don't want nobody, baby ♪
我不想要其他人 宝贝
♪ Part-time love just brings me down ♪
三心二意的爱让我失望
♪ Do, do, do ♪
哇哦 耶!
♪ Whoa, whoa, yeah! ♪
♪ Do, do, do, do, do, do ♪
♪ Oh, oh ♪
♪ Whoa! ♪
非常感谢!晚安!你们太棒了!
Thank you very much! Good night! You've been brilliant!
There was this overwhelming feeling of pride
我感到一种难以抑制的骄傲
that we had made such an impression in four years.
四年来 我们给人们 留下了这么深刻的印象
To see that an awful lot of the people that were there
看到有这么多人来到演唱会现场
were there because Wham! represented that part of their youth to them.
因为威猛乐队代表着他们的青春
Wham! was never gonna be middle-aged or be anything other than that
威猛乐队绝对不会变成中年人 或者其他模样
essential and pure representation of us as youths.
它完全是对我们青春的纯粹象征
We all wake up in the middle of our dreams.
我们都会在梦中醒来
Suddenly, it's not there.
突然之间 梦就结束了
Wham! as us, as what we were together,
威猛乐队作为我们俩 我们过去一起所做的一切
was at an end.
已经走到了尽头
If I was gonna go to the place that I believed I was about to go to,
如果我要达成 认为自己要达成的那个目标
there was no way that we could hang out in the way that we had always done.
我们绝对不可能像过去那样待在一起
不可能的 这对安德鲁来说太难了
There was just no way. It would've been too difficult for Andrew.
So it was a sad day in some ways.
所以那天从某些方面来说 是悲伤的一天
It was the end of something.
那是某件事物的终结
Thank you, everyone, for coming tonight. Thank you, George.
谢谢大家今晚的到来 谢谢你 乔治
George embraced me and said, "I couldn't have done it without you."
乔治拥抱了我 说道: “没有你 就没有现在的我”
It said everything that he needed to say to me.
这句话中蕴含着他想对我说的一切
The fact that we'd,
事实上 我们
一同取得了如此巨大的成功
you know, we'd achieved such huge success together.
You know, what our friendship represented.
这是我们的友谊所代表的
我们就要分开了
We were gonna be separate, when we hadn't been since we were...
我们从小从来没有分开过
since we were kids.
我为我的朋友感到高兴
I was happy for my friend.
He stood on the cusp of greatness.
他即将名垂青史
But I didn't know what being George Michael truly meant.
但我不知道 作为乔治迈克尔 究竟意味着什么
我只能靠自己了
I was on my own.
And I had no idea how much I was gonna miss that support.
我不知道自己会有多想念那种支持
And I would always remember this journey.
我会永远记得这段旅程
Absolutely beautiful and happy, you know.
这绝对是一段美好快乐的旅程
威猛乐队
Wham!.
♪ Oh! ♪
(作为独唱艺人 乔治的唱片销量超过1.2亿张)
(没有比安德鲁对此更骄傲 更淡然接受的人了)
(2020年 《去年圣诞》 终于登上了榜首)
♪ Call me good ♪
说我好
♪ Call me bad ♪
说我坏
♪ Call me anything you want to, baby ♪
你怎么评价我都可以 宝贝
♪ But I know, uh-huh ♪
但我知道
♪ That you're sad ♪
你很悲伤
♪ And I know I'll make you happy With the one thing that you never had ♪
我知道我会让你开心 让你得到从未有过的感受
♪ Baby, I'm your man ♪
宝贝 我是你的男人
♪ Don't you know that ♪
你不知道吗?
♪ Baby, I'm your man ♪
宝贝 我是你的男人
♪ You bet ♪
当然了
♪ If you're gonna do it, do it right ♪
如果你愿意 就好好来
♪ Right, do it with me ♪
和我一起
♪ If you're gonna do it, do it right ♪
如果你愿意 就好好来
♪ Right, do it with me ♪
和我一起
♪ If you're gonna do it, do it right ♪
如果你愿意 就好好来
♪ Right, do it with me ♪
和我一起
♪ If you're gonna do it, do it right ♪
如果你愿意 就好好来
♪ Right, do it with me ♪
和我一起
♪ So good, you're divine ♪
你真棒 神圣无边
♪ Wanna take you, wanna make you ♪
我想要你 想强迫你
♪ But they tell me it's a crime, oh ♪
但他们告诉我这是犯罪
♪ Everybody knows Where the good people go ♪
大家都知道好人去哪里了
♪ But where we're going, baby ♪
但我们要去哪里 宝贝
♪ Ain't no such word as no ♪
没有拒绝这个词
♪ Baby, I'm your man ♪
宝贝 我是你的男人
♪ Don't you know who I am ♪
你不知道我是谁吗?
♪ Baby, I'm your man ♪
宝贝 我是你的男人
♪ You know, you bet ♪
当然了
♪ If you're gonna do it, do it right ♪
如果你愿意 就好好来
- ♪ Right, do it with me ♪ - ♪ Come on, baby ♪
- 和我一起 - 来吧 宝贝
- ♪ If you're gonna do it, do it right ♪ - ♪ Yeah, ooh, take me home ♪
- 如果你愿意 就好好来 - 耶 带我回家
- ♪ If you're gonna do it, do it right ♪ - ♪ Please don't leave me here ♪
- 如果你愿意 就好好来 - 请不要抛弃我
♪ To do it on my own ♪
- 要我自己来 - 最高级消息
♪ First-class information ♪
♪ And you sense your inspiration ♪
你感受到了自己的灵感
♪ With some stimulation ♪
加上一些刺激
♪ Ooh, yeah ♪
(深刻缅怀乔治迈克尔 生于1963年 卒于2016年)
♪ Do it right, oh... ♪
字幕翻译:七月