Why did Tan Yonglin call him Principal Tan?

Because the mid-1980s was the era of Alan Tam, and most of the people who liked him were students, so he would hold a concert at Hongkan Stadium every summer vacation, usually 40-50 concerts. The main audience of the concert was students, and the concert was like a school. All the students came to class, and the time span spanned a summer vacation. Therefore, the media later classified the effect of Alan Tam as a student leader to the school and called him Tan Principal, the title continues to this day.

Alan Tam was born in 1952, and his zodiac sign is dragon. Because his father is a famous Hong Kong football player known as "Tan Tongtou", he has loved playing football since he was a child. When he was in college, he followed his family's advice and went to Singapore to study economics. Unfortunately, in his third year of college, he suddenly contracted a serious illness there. He suffered from vomiting and diarrhea and was almost inhuman shape. Tan's mother was so frightened that she immediately recalled her son from Singapore to Hong Kong and stopped reading the book.

pp “Of course my illness will be cured after I return to Hong Kong, but I don’t want to go to school anymore, so I’ll find a job... In fact, my dream when I was a child was to be a dentist. Judging from the situation at that time , this ideal could not be realized. So the first job I found was as a postman."

pp I had to get up early and go to bed late every day, and I had to travel all over the streets of Hong Kong Island. Alan Tam at that time. The salary is 220 Hong Kong dollars.

pp“I didn’t feel that I was earning less, nor did I feel tired, and I was very happy with my work. One of my bosses thought that I was a talented person, so he wanted to recommend me to make tea. I was promoted to the head of the department, and I didn’t have to work so hard every day. But because I loved singing at the time and would go on stage in nightclubs, I stopped working as a postman, and I didn’t want to get promoted. I went to sell in a store. Stationery, so that working during the day is not so hard, and I go to sing at night, but I can only sleep for two hours a day. "When talking about these, Alan Tam always smiled, and his smile infected me at the time. I thought he was an optimist. Man, this is very similar to his good friend Eric Tsang.

ppThe time when Alan Tam impressed me most was the interview in 1998. I asked him: "You can't be so happy all the time, right? What do you do when you encounter something unsatisfactory?"

ppHe suddenly stopped smiling playfully, looked directly at me, thought for a while and said: " Sometimes I think - who is the most unhappy person in the world? There are many interferences from the outside world every day, but you need to solve everything by yourself."

pp Alan Tam. There are two women who love him. Hong Kong's media and artists like to play a game, which is similar to "tracking and counter-tracking" in military training - they send out elite soldiers, "long guns" and "short artillery", and hire "informants" at any time. To pass on information, maybe you just want to get first-hand information about someone returning to the hotel after having dinner and watching a movie with someone;

ppThe other party would like to wear camouflage, go in and out with low eyebrows, look left and right, and always improve They are vigilant just to protect their own little privacy; one is chasing and the other is hiding, one wants and the other is not giving, the back and forth is very interesting to watch. This is the war between "paparazzi" and celebrities. In fact, for a long time, the public image of most idol stars has been somewhat incomplete. They rarely bring out their significant other openly. Even the prince of love songs only talks about his first love when talking about his relationship experience. Jackie Chan has been married for nearly 20 years, and he and his wife, Lin Fengjiao, have never appeared in public at the same time. Many people feel aggrieved for Lin Fengjiao, but Jackie Chan's reason is: he is afraid that his Japanese fans will behave excessively again.

pp Alan Tam may have the same concerns. I didn't get any information about this during that interview, and I had already been told that even if you asked, he wouldn't say anything. In this regard, he had already become invulnerable to all poisons. But I know that his wife’s name is Sally, and her Chinese name is Yang Jiewei. She is a few years older than Alan Tam, and she has been helping her husband with everything at work. Her appearance is a bit ordinary, but the long-term stable relationship between the two shows that Alan Tam cannot do without this virtuous house assistant. This news was told to me by my Hong Kong colleague Eric. He also asked me: "Alan Tam...have you read the Hong Kong newspapers recently? His son looks very much like him."