didn't post any articles for three days, and I was overwhelmed by all the old news about Leslie Cheung and from 1977 to 2003. I read every piece of his entertainment news and interviews year by year, and found a dark line running through it, which is the keyword "move".
During the past 26 years, there have been conclusive news reports that Leslie Cheung moved at least 14 times. In other words, the average time he lived in the same house would not be two years.
This is reminiscent of his line in "The True Story of A Fei", as if it has become a saying:
"There is a kind of bird in the world that has no legs. It can only fly like this, and it can fly so tired. Sleeping in the wind. This kind of bird can only land once in a lifetime, and that time is when it dies." Does
move frequently, does it have a special meaning to his life?
In 1994, when Leslie Cheung was interviewed by the reporter of "Film Story", he took the initiative to link the two concepts of "moving" and "love":
"I played many roles, and every performance of love is different, but There is one thing in common, that is madness, life-saving pursuit, and the results are empty, or contrary to what I originally thought, they become very empty and desperate. I often have this mental state myself. For example, I make some money, and my favorite thing to do is to change houses. I bought a house and I was busy designing, drawing drawings, visiting stores, buying furniture, decorating rooms, and even decorating swimming pools and gardens. This process is What excites you the most is like a kind of enjoyment. When everything is set up, invite friends to play, and everyone says &39;good, really good&39;. At this time, my mood is very strange. In addition to satisfaction, there is also a kind of emptiness. New emptiness. What's the matter, I'm done? Then what to look for? So I often feel tired after living for two years, and I have been unable to live with myself. People say you are really tired. But I think life is always looking for , I have been dreaming, a long dream. ”
It turns out that moving is like looking for a love, constantly searching and dreaming.
Later the reporter asked: Wouldn’t you be disappointed if you continue to pursue such perfectionism if you still can’t get it?
He replied with a playful look:
"Yes, I think I might adopt a destructive method, which is to throw away the bad things, rather than destroy."
00 / Before 1977, the original home that could not be called warm
One is Baohua Building (Jinhua Street, Shaukeiwan, Hong Kong); one is a "Ten Man" (81 Wanchai Road, Hong Kong), both in Hong Kong Island
Leslie Cheung’s father is a well-known tailor of tailored suits, a client There are even Hollywood big names such as Gary Grant, William Holden, Marlon Brando and Hitchcock on the list. Leslie Cheung has seen Hong Kong celebrities' luxury homes since he was a child, also because he helped his father deliver the goods.
But father is more than mother and a woman, and he didn't live with them under the same roof for a long time. Just willing to send this youngest son to study in the UK. Since the age of 13, Leslie Cheung has been living as a poor international student and has been studying fashion design at the University of Leeds, dreaming of returning to Hong Kong to design women's clothing in the future, keeping pace with his father's menswear business.
But his father suffered a stroke and was paralyzed. He was forced to interrupt his studies. When Leslie Cheung returned to Hong Kong at the age of 19, he felt "down and down" for the first time. He didn't want to work in the lawyer's office that his father had asked him to do. He sold shoes in Happy Valley and worked as a clerk in a jeans shop. He earned only a few hundred thousand yuan a month.
was confused about life, and went to Li's TV with a friend to participate in a singing competition. The journey from home to the TV station is quite long. You have to "take the tram to Central, then take the Star Ferry to cross the sea, and finally take the bus to Radio Road."
Leslie Cheung never said "warm" memories of his childhood "half home". The relationship between father and mother is tense. His elder sister and brother are over eight years old. His lonely childhood was accompanied by music boxes and Barbie dolls. Mynah remembers that he cried for a certain toy, and he bought it for him when he paid him a salary. He remembered it as a treasure for a lifetime.
, his favorite person in the family, is the six nanny who watched him grow up and loved him all the time. When the singing competition required 5 yuan for the registration fee, Liu Jie took out 20 yuan and handed it to Leslie Cheung. The travel expense of
brought Leslie Cheung out of his native family.
Baohua Building’s current location is the market
No. 81 Wan Chai Road no longer exists. This is a photo of a tenement house in Wan Chai.
According to a 1970 Hong Kong telephone book record, Leslie Cheung’s childhood address was a "Ten Man" at No. 81 Wan Chai Road. The Nanyang architectural style is closely connected side by side. There are prominent balconies on the second floor and above. Businesses such as seafood, traditional Chinese medicine, vegetable shops, etc., are very busy.
01 / In May 1977, he rented his first home, and the bird was free
(near 81 Broadcasting Road, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong)
Leslie Cheung himself probably did not expect it, he won the 1977 Asian Singing The runner-up of the competition. And he was called to the office of the TV station and told him that the winners would sign a contract with a monthly salary of 1,000 yuan.
"If you don't do anything, you can get 1,000 yuan?" Leslie Cheung agreed without hesitation, turning around and renting a house for 500 yuan a month on Broadcast Road. With 500 yuan left for living expenses, I also used 200 yuan to honor my mother. I ate in the cafeteria of the TV station all month, and was laughed at "garbage mouth". Although
can only save dozens of dollars a month, Leslie Cheung thinks it is worth saving the round-trip transportation and time. Of course, it is more worthwhile that he has an exclusive and independent free space.
So even if he is struggling, he has to "dress up" for his home. He and Taili paid half a year's salary in advance to decorate the room and spread the carpet. He said that he was not casual when it came to eating and living.
According to the 1979 "Sing Tao Evening News", he also became a second landlord, renting a room to others to save money.
The bird who just came out of the cage spent nine months in this "new nest".
, my brother who always loves to listen to records,
, read fabric designs in the UK. You see, the curtains and bedding are all of the same color
02 / February 1978, the first thing after the salary increase was to change to a better one. Wo Lai Zhai, determined to work hard to make money
Liwan Garden (Laijingshan Road, Lai Chi Kok, West Mei Foo, Kowloon, Hong Kong)
Leslie Cheung, who has just debuted for a year, has a beautiful appearance and is often matched by TV stations with the female star group "screen couple" CP. The star journey goes smoothly. It was heard that someone wanted to poach Leslie Cheung with a high salary of 6,000 yuan, and Li raised his salary to 2,950 yuan to keep him. Leslie Cheung couldn't bear to quit and agreed to stay. When
turned around, he refunded the 500-rent house and replaced it with a 1,000-yuan one in a new one-year building.
Liwan Garden distant view.
He usually eats with friends, goes to disco every week, and plays mahjong occasionally, but most of all is to enjoy all kinds of "babies" in his new home alone, such as reading books and listening to records sent to him by friends from other places, please see Jiayan Xue Collected videos of my own drama series, observe my acting skills, and think about how to improve. The reporters of
discovered that this "beautiful boy" originally loved the house. He was surprised to hear him hiding in the bed for an interview, blowing on the handset of the wireless phone.
Incidentally, Mao Shunyun, one of his "screen lovers", is also a fledgling, but his monthly salary at Jiashi in 1978 was already 6,000 yuan. Mao's father is Jiashi's personnel manager. Well, the gap still exists.
Leslie Cheung’s "fairy days" took a turning point in 1979. He was hospitalized for hepatitis and had to make his parents pay for the medical expenses. This incident made him ashamed, "I now know the importance of money."
Before he didn't like to go to nightclubs to sing, but this year Christmas started to take on business performances, and he felt that he was "just getting the hang of it."
He said that it turns out that career success is not only a good work, but also a stable income. "I am very frank. I am not an artist. In Hong Kong, I am just someone who sings and eats." After
, Leslie Cheung claimed to find a good agent who could help him negotiate the price. He concentrated on acting. A reporter saw him visiting Central to buy a Rolex, and he was very happy.
In 1981, Leslie Cheung promised to reporters that sinceI want to buy a house. "Far from being rich, I just want to provide a floor for myself, with a tile to cover my head, because the owner will take over the house next year, and I will have no house to live in."
03 / May 1982, the first house invested in my life was this one Duplex, from happy to tired
Fairview Garden ( Yuen Long District, New Territories, Hong Kong suburbs)
In the middle of the lease expiration and the relocation of his new home, it seems that he has moved back to Broadcast Road for a short time.
In May 1982, he officially moved from the urban area to the Fairview Garden on the outskirts of Yuen Long. There was the largest artificial lake in Hong Kong at that time. Each house had its own front and rear gardens and garages. He happily said that the environment is very comfortable and "very fresh". The new home of
is a 950-foot (about 88 square meters) duplex building. Sleeping upstairs, living room downstairs, and the small garden in front of the house can invite friends to BBQ. The house is big, he hired a servant to take care of it.
good taste dress, really timeless.
He revealed that this cheap house was introduced by a lawyer friend, but the renovation cost 200,000 Hong Kong dollars. "The younger sister is bigger than the hostess." Just because it was the first property that I made money to buy, it took a lot of effort to install hard and soft.
On his birthday in September, he invited Zhang Shuping's friends to dinner in Causeway Bay. He slept in the hotel until half past ten. Because I had to leave for the sunrise scene at four in the morning the next day, it took three hours to go back and forth to the new home.
In fact, he makes announcements or appointments with friends almost every day, and he gets tired every time he thinks of going home. He only has a British driver's license, so he found an assistant part-time driver, and was teased by his friends: "You have a good boy, learn from Rowan and invite the driver!"
Speaking of cars, he had a second-hand Mercedes-Benz before, which was too much gas. , And changed to a BMW. A reporter saw that he usually played fiercely with other celebrities, but he often hid quietly in the car to listen to music, or grabbed a faucet to wash the car. The reporter described Leslie Cheung as "very lonely and worried."
04 / In December 1982, I moved back to the urban area and was closer to my career. I lived with my six sisters, and the nourishing soup
(Robinson Road, Mid-Levels, Hong Kong Island)
. The new house has only been living for half a year, and Leslie Cheung discovered Every month, he has to pay for the house, the maids and assistants, and the gas for the car. The expenses are close to 20,000 yuan. It coincided with the off-season of real estate, he decided to return to the city to rent a house. The duplexes in Yuen Long can either be reserved for vacation, or rent or sell ruthlessly.
Sure enough, Fairview Garden was sold smoothly in December.
Seventeen years later, Leslie Cheung confided that there was another reason for moving at this time. It was that his hard-earned money was embezzled by his trusted agent KK Tan Guoji.
He wanted to find a 400-foot (approximately 37 square meters) house in Waterloo Road, but it was hard to film and be deceived and tired. He missed the soup made by his six sisters, so he would rather spend more money. Find a 500-square-foot (approximately 46 square meters) two-bedroom and two-living room on Robinson Road and live with the sixth sister.
He also said that if he has money in the future, he will definitely enjoy it. Money is earned and spent. The miser is too mean to himself and lives too pitifully.
Later experience proved that Leslie Cheung would indeed move because of "not going well." Take the initiative to seek and create a comfortable environment for yourself, and if you change your mood, you will usher in a better life-just like the "half home" he left for the first time.
05 / In December 1983, when I moved to Taikoo Shing, my career and mood both entered a rising period.
In music, he joined China Star Entertainment and released two records of "The Wind Continues Blowing" and "A Piece of Infatuation". For the first time, he plans to hold a solo concert; in terms of film, he finished filming "Yang Guo and the Little Dragon Girl" and looks forward to it. Xu Anhua’s new film; In terms of making money, he plans to perform in Indonesia with Anita Mui.
Robinson Road is only a temporary residence, and then he moved into Taikoo Shing, which is said to be a high-rise 16th floor of 100 square meters.
1The Taikoo Shing in the 980s was located near the mountains and the sea.
He should be very happy during that time. Because a reporter asked when he usually called to call him, he replied playfully, morning, because he wakes up early, or goes out to play all night, and just goes home in the morning.
He generously invited reporters to interview at home. Looking at the following photos, he should have taken at least two sets of photos:
The light caramel leather sofa should be very comfortable. The paintings and lights are very modern.
stylish white monitor and white hair dryer! There are cassettes, video tapes, and amplifiers!
perfect profile! There is a saying in Feng Shui to keep a tank of goldfish in the bedroom.
is obviously a higher level of photographers, and the composition is more beautiful:
can tell that the indoor paintings are a series. The black sculpture next to it is very interesting.
Small Buddha sculpture. The exquisite Eight Immortals chair.
Hahaha, showing off the wireless phone.
Who told me, is that suitcase LV?
brother's record in the lower left corner. He once said that he loved listening to classical music at home, such as Baja, Mozart, Beethoven, Haydn, and had a strong sense of music. I hate simplified adaptations the most. Brother
is holding the famous female singer Roberta Flack's new record "I&39;m the One" in 1982, a soft jazz.
A Michelangelo's art album.
On the wall is the cover of the 1983 album "A Piece of Infatuation" designed by Chen Youjian.
It can be seen that the decorative colors of this house are bright and soft, and the stylish modern minimalist style is in line with my brother's fashionable and refreshing good taste.
However, Hong Kong media are most concerned about Feng Shui, Feng Shui and Feng Shui. In 1984, it was reported that Leslie Cheung looked for someone to see the Feng Shui of the house and moved all the stoves, and then "Monica" became popular in the music scene.
06 / In 1985, I stayed at the feng shui treasure house, but the fans came to visit, and the sense of security dropped to zero.
Federal Garden (Conduit Road, Mid-Levels West of Hong Kong Island)
1984's "Monica" did indeed become my brother's superstar in Hong Kong music status. After
, he moved to the Mid-Levels and praised it as a "Feng Shui Treasure House" that he would not sell even if he moved in the future.
lived here for more than a year, Leslie Cheung found that he was harassed here, and there were fans who came to find him. A fan of
came to ring the doorbell to send cakes to congratulate the success of the performance, and he had no choice but to thank him. But the fan said: "You won't invite me to sit in the house?" He had to agree.
once again said, "I went into the bathroom and took a shower, with only a towel around me. I suddenly saw a few female fans standing in front of me. I was shocked. I was too insecure, so I wanted to move." .
At the end of 1986, while living, he bought a new home in Repulse Bay and started renovation.
It seems that his brother had another investment in a property that suits his vision for a while, so it was eventually sold. The new owner is the boyfriend of the female star Yang Panpan.
suspicious files:
In October 1985, bought 7 middle-level flats at Hong Chui Terrace, Chai Wan
In June 1987, he bought the mid-level unit of Ganyuan in Mid-Levels
07 / In the spring of 1987, he stayed in an old mansion with mountains and seas back, and decided to retreat from the rapids
Baohua Building (Repulse Bay, Hong Kong)
. Is controlled by fate, byeLeslie Cheung, who will have peace in the Buddha's heart", insisted in 1987 that he "does not believe in fate, and is an idealist, and everything can be done by himself"!
He used a series of works "Rouge Button" and "A Chinese Ghost Story" He proved his inner strength. In the spring of
, he moved into the renovated Baohua Building in Repulse Bay. The house here is backed by the mountains and the sea, outside is a private road, separated by iron gates and roads, it is difficult for fans to find him. You are free to enjoy the sun and exercise on the rooftop.
Now, privacy is his most important residential element.
Repulse Bay mansion area
The old mansion Baohua Mansion
is twice the size of the old one, with more than 2,000 feet (About 185 square meters), it is a set of three duplexes, the master bedroom is about 20 square meters, Leslie Cheung said indifferently, "just enough to live".
"I am the kind of person who doesn't like going out without a job. Listen to music and watch videos at home. "When I have time, I will invite friends to play Taiwanese mahjong and make stir-fried beef and curry chicken for everyone to eat. The
house was bought for 2.8 million Hong Kong dollars, and the decoration is still expensive, and it cost about 1 million. "It's all my thoughts, the decoration of the house. It's all designed by me. "The whole
is still beige with black furniture. A friend who has been there said: "The floor is covered with beautiful white Italian tiles, and the whole room is white. "There was a friend's shoes, and a black mark on the floor that Leslie Cheung was very concerned about.
Huang Zhan wrote a column praise in 1989: "He is greedy for beauty. I like him so greedy. His house is so HI TECH (high-tech sense), I laughed that he even keeps a dog in good color. But this is so comfortable and enjoyable. Pretty and cute! Pretty and cute! "
At the end of 1987, Lin Xi wrote Leslie Cheung's second lyrics "No Need Too Much". Leslie Cheung liked it very much and invited him to be a guest at home. Lin Xi came in and said "Wow, it's so big." He said Later, I loved to buy a house, look at the home environment, and buy furniture, all under the influence of my brother.
After more than a year, when Lin Xi wrote "Side" for him, she was shocked to learn that he was going to bid farewell to the music scene and retired to Canada. .
In May 1989, Leslie Cheung began his world tour farewell concert. That year, he was 33 years old and had 33 vigorous concerts.
In October, the last stop of the concert opened in Vancouver. At this time Leslie Cheung had also purchased in Canada. He had already decided to look at the property around 1987, as a retirement home.
bid farewell to the marble base of the concert "Mine Closing Ceremony", but did not take it to Canada and stayed in this house.
At this time, he wants to pursue not only a house, but also a brand new life. Even if he wants to say goodbye to his past career, he dare.
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