Xu Wei these years.

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Five years ago, Xu Wei held a brick engraved with "Xu Wei Xu Wei" and set it on the celebrity wall in front of the Liverpool Cave Bar. This is the famous place of the British rock star Beatles, and all the singers in the world are proud to have performed here. There was only one Asian singer here before, and Xu Wei was the first Chinese rock singer.

In the evening, Xu Wei, together with Xu Wei, guitarist Li Yanliang and keyboard player Wang Wenying, sang six songs including Once You, Blue Lotus and Xanadu in front of all British rock fans. Where they stood decades ago.

"It's shocking," Li Yanliang said. An international student from China cried here. He lost his wallet and passport in order to watch the performance. He went to England to train football in the "youth training", but he had to stop because of injury. He said that it was the blue lotus in Xu Wei that accompanied him out of the haze. Xu Wei gave him a hug. I didn't know what souvenirs to give him at that time, so I took off my performance coat, folded it and gave it to him.

This is an episode of Xu Wei's trip to Britain on 20 14. The documentary "In the Hometown of Rock" is being broadcasted in Tencent. During this journey, Xu Wei walked all the way from London to Liverpool, Sri Lanka, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Manchester and other places, passing by the hometown of the Beatles, going to the stupa where Buddhists made pilgrimages, and looking for bodhi trees barefoot.

This year, for Xu Wei, he was a walker. As a veteran who once dominated the rock and pop music scene in China, Xú Zhēng chose a quiet and far-reaching road, from a pop singer to a walker musician.

0 1, young Xu Wei

Want to be as awesome as Cui Jian

1986, 18-year-old Wei Xu left home before the college entrance examination. In this intellectual family of "My father's ideal is Chinese Academy of Sciences", young Xu Wei lives in the fear that scores will determine the future. "I remember being beaten when I came home at 88 when I was a child. My parents were too strict with me."

Later, I fell in love with playing the guitar, waiting for an opportunity to escape, and ran out before the college entrance examination. "It feels good to run directly." Holding a guitar, Xu Wei began to perform in a cave and became a guitarist in a local band. When he was a teenager, he traveled all over Hubei, Sichuan and Henan provinces, from one county to another, and took a big truck with porters to help move musical instruments. It's hard. After the performance that day, it was demolished overnight until midnight, and then he took a big truck to the next county to set up a stage.

Xu Wei regarded those days as turbulent years.

On the day I walked in the cave, I sometimes fell asleep on the aisle of the green leather train with two newspapers, which was also a day. At that time, he didn't have a performance fee, because he was still a student in the band, and he could get 25 yuan a month, but his family didn't have to pay back the money, which made Xu Wei very satisfied. Although turbulent, it also opened my eyes. "Once in Shanghai, I was particularly impressed. A musician asked, "Do you know jazz?" I said I didn't know, and he played a passage for me. I am too stupid to play. He later played the blues. I suddenly felt that you were still far away, so I began to listen to music. "

Xu Wei realized that he was only a member of the national army. After wandering for a year, he returned to Xi 'an.

After returning to Xi 'an, parents still want Wei Xu to take the college entrance examination again. In that era when the college entrance examination was the only way out, Xu Wei, who grew up in an intellectual family, had a lot of helplessness. At this time, the Shaanxi Military Region came to recruit literary talents, and Xu Wei offered to be a soldier. Although his parents were hesitant at that time, they thought that the army could make Xu Wei accept his wishes and receive a good education, so they let him go.

Xu Wei's second rebellion as a teenager also happened here. At that time, Cui Jian, the first rock man in the Mainland, had already publicly sang "Nothing" at the Workers Stadium, which caused a sensation throughout the country. With a roaring throat and a serious face, Cui Jian was the spiritual leader of that era and influenced countless underground bands. So is Xu Wei. After serving as a soldier for one and a half years, Wei Xu had the opportunity to transfer to the Fourth Military Medical University without examination, which was decided internally. Xu Wei is on the list. "But at that time, I have begun to listen to Cui Jian. I remember talking to the leaders, colonels and directors of the Fourth Military Medical University. They asked me who Cui Jian was. I said that Cui Jian was excellent and powerful, the best in China ... but they didn't listen and didn't understand. Ask me, are you sure?

In the end, Xu Wei didn't choose to go to the Fourth Military Medical University. "I think I must make music like Cui Jian. I want to be like him. I don't know if I have this ability, but I want to try. "

After leaving the army, Wei Xu began to sing in karaoke bars, and later formed a band in Xi 'an.

For young Xu Wei, it was a turbulent time.

02, "That Year"

I almost jumped when I was depressed.

1993, Xu Wei formed a "flying band" in Xi 'an. At that time, he had participated in some music festivals, which made him famous. Grunge (junk rock) popular in the West in the late 1980s and early 1990s, such as Nirvana and Pearl Jam, also brought great influence to domestic rock singers, and these styles can be seen in the styles of Xu Wei's early albums.

However, the "Flying Band" broke up only nine months later. "In order to survive, everyone must face this situation. I can't earn money outside, so I ate a meal at home. Looking back now, there were really many interesting things at that time. "

So Xu Wei decided to go north.

Soon, Red Star signed Xu Wei and released two singles, Two Days and Jade Bird, which were included in the series of Red Star One and Red Star Three. But in those years, Xu Wei faced the problem of how to survive. "Even if you sign a record company, life is still torturing you, and you will have too much confusion. The first is survival. " In fact, after his first album "Elsewhere" was released in 1997, he was just a drifter who had to rely on others to live.

Wei Xu recalled that "Elsewhere" had a good reputation only in the industry. In the end, it sold 500 thousand copies, but it was only a few years' sales data. In the era of rampant piracy, the pirated sales of this album were several times that of the original. Although Zhang Yadong, Jin Shaogang, Li Yanliang and others all think this is very good, it is only confined to the industry. When the second album "That Year" was released, it couldn't be sold at all, and Xú Zhēng also canceled the contract with the Red Star Society.

Wei Xu recalled that there was no performance. He has to rent his own house in Beijing, and occasionally he has to go on stage for a Christmas party. "At that time, Liangzi (Li Yanliang) and I performed in a bar, and we could live alone for a period of time for three or five hundred a weekend."

However, "That Year" later became the favorite of many rock lovers, and it was also a must-listen for many frustrated young people. Xu Wei sang in the lyrics, "You are still running for so many years/seeing tomorrow is still illusory/pure ideal before survival/so fragile …", and many rock fans will cry after listening to it.

It was during the recording of "That Year" that Xu Wei got depressed. Serious enough to go back to Xi' an to rest, you must be accompanied, and you can't stay alone. Today, Xu Wei is not shy about this experience. "I get excited when I listen to music. When you are excited, you will feel even worse, which will aggravate your illness and make you unable to get excited. So I don't listen to music, let alone play the piano, so I have to stay away from these things. " At that time, Xu Wei wanted to change careers or even open a grocery store, as long as he didn't make music, it was ok.

"He almost jumped up, almost disappeared, very serious," Yu Jie said. She is now Xu Wei's agent. From 2008 to now, she has been following Xu Wei, and naturally knows Xu Wei's past like the back of her hand. He takes Prozac (an antidepressant).

Now everyone thinks Xu Wei's first and second albums are awesome, but at that time, Xu Wei didn't even have a place to live. Yu Jie is still complaining about Xu Wei's artistic life. "I can't even survive. I eat everywhere. I don't know where dinner is after eating Chinese food."

Xú Zhēng himself was a little worried about the late influence of The Year. "Record companies have business problems, Zheng Jun is fine, Tian Zhen is fine, but my music is still not accepted by the public. Now more Monday morning quarterbacks say this song is great. I want to say, where have you been? "

Medically speaking, the source of depression comes from inferiority complex, which Wei Xu agrees with. "I've been thinking, in the years I grew up, what happened, how did I live like this? Because I used to be a very confident person, I recorded two Beijing records after I came back and became a person with special inferiority and no confidence at all. "

03, "Blue Lotus"

Learn traditional culture and become a Buddhist.

During the days when Wei Xu was depressed, Zheng Jun often called him. Ye Bei always asked him, "I said, do you need money?" Xu Wei kept saying no.

After recording "That Year", I went back to Xi 'an and went back to Beijing to get something in the middle. It was like this for a while. In 2000, Song Ke called him without telling him to continue releasing the album. Instead, he invited him back to help Ye Bei make his new album Pisces. 200 1, Xu Wei signed a new company. At that time, it was also called Shanghai Busheng (belonging to EMI, and was later acquired by the gold medal gale). Xu Wei stayed in EMI for 10 years.

During this period, Xú Zhēng released extremely successful albums such as Time Walk, Gift, Time, Perfect Life and Blue Lotus, which became classics, especially Blue Lotus, with a high singing rate. To outsiders, the lonely Xu Wei finally reached the peak of her career. With long hair and a white shirt, he stood on the stage as the spiritual leader of urban white-collar workers, enjoying the cheers. In the era when Zheng Jun, Ai Jing, Lao Lang, Pu Shu, Ye Bei and other folk and rock singers were still trying to make records, Xú Zhēng was not submerged by the market, but stood firm.

But what many people don't know is that from the album Time Walk, Xú Zhēng began to try to understand the Buddhism in his songs. "He began to have confidence. He didn't write Time Walk until he came back from the pilgrimage to the top of Mount Emei. " Agent Yu Jie said.

Xu Wei once said that in China, religious belief is a very private matter and should not be said publicly. However, his "Time Walk" really made many people hear the warmth. Later, "Every Time is New" and "Love Like a Boy" won him almost all the awards that could be won, and also made him encounter unprecedented doubts. Most people ask him, "Why is your music always in the same tune?"

This matter once troubled Xu Wei.

"They questioned why he only wrote about mountains and rivers. Sunshine, wind and rain are always warm. In short, what everyone sees is so superficial. " Yu Jie said that she and Xu Wei often discussed this in private. Why not criticize society? Xu Wei thought, "Don't you see there are so many problems in this world? Life can't just stop complaining, and swearing is meaningless. "

"Although he didn't see these things, all the voices around him could feel them." Yu Jie recalled that Xu Wei was in a bad mood at that time, but he always wanted to do something and spent a long time thinking about what kind of music could help others. He was very serious at that time, but more than half of the voices were critical and negative. "

Since then, Xu Wei has systematically studied the traditional culture of China. "From the three-character classics, the Analects of Confucius, the golden mean, the Tao Te Ching to the Buddhist scriptures and Buddhism, I began to study and then began to understand my own culture." Buddhist belief has brought him profound changes. "In my heart, it has made me let go and let me deeply reflect on myself. At the age of 30, I will reflect on myself. When I see too many problems, I will start introspection. "

"Do you believe it? I hope to treat myself through music. " Wei Xu suddenly told reporters. His later music, regardless of popularity and popularity, is more of a cultural heritage. "American rock is like this, and British rock is like this. China's rock music must be integrated into its own culture, otherwise you will be meaningless. " So he wrote "Gu Gu", first combined the Book of Songs with Song Ci, and then wrote "Xanadu". He felt that there was a "natural" force pushing him to write these.

04. In recent years.

Reject the draft and stay away from the media

Bob Dylan didn't want to give a concert for four years, and he stopped completely. Although many fans chase after tickets, half of them chase after them. Fans who were loyal to folk songs thought why Bob Dylan betrayed folk songs to play rock and roll.

Xu Wei also has this problem. Fans criticized him for always keeping the same tune, but didn't find any change in his heart from Blue Lotus to now. For four years, he disappeared and rarely came out. The media wrote that his depression recurred.

Since 2008, Yu Jie has been following Xu Wei to help him deal with acting brokerage affairs. When she took Xu Wei, Xu Wei's contract with Gold Medal Gale was about to expire, but the company still owed him an album. Later, in addition to an anthology (which Xú Zhēng didn't know much about after the release), Xú Zhēng also released his last album during the windy period of gold medal: At this moment.

The gold medal of this album cost 800 thousand. 800,000 yuan is high enough for a mainland singer's investment, but the cost can't meet Xu Wei's demand for this album at the moment, and it can't be asked from the company. In the end, it only costs 6.5438+0.2 million yuan out of his own pocket.

However, the 2 million album did not make much noise, because Xu Wei resisted the media, refused to give any interviews and did not want to publicize it. A Peng, a famous radio host, also filmed a documentary with Xu Wei in Britain last year. 20 13, also responsible for taking care of the media who helped Xu Wei to tour, and for helping Xu Wei to arrange interviews, and which media to accept or reject. 20 13 In the second half of the year, Xu Wei went to Shenzhen for concert promotion. A Peng arranged several rounds of media interviews for him, but the results were not good. Several TV reporters asked each other after going out, "Is Xu Wei a difficult person to get along with?"

A Peng recalled that Xu Wei began to tour on 20 13, and there was no publicity until the third performance. "He didn't want to be interviewed by the media until the fourth performance in Harbin. This is a process of persuasion, and he and I also need to slowly cultivate trust. "

Yu Jie still regrets that "At this moment" did not meet expectations. According to the copywriting, there should have been five press conferences, five live broadcasts and live radio broadcasts, but in fact, it was shrunk again and again when it was implemented, and finally only two live broadcasts were made, but there was no live broadcast.

"His biggest weakness is shielding himself, which may be influenced by Xi 'an or his childhood. "A Peng said that Xu Wei's generation of rock singers have this common problem, and both Zhang Chu and Pu Shu have different degrees of depression." In fact, there is no need to put pressure on yourself and be friends with yourself. "

In fact, before his retirement, Xu Wei was an absolutely decisive figure in both rock and pop music. Even after leaving No.43 Bao Jiajie, Wang Feng, who has sung "Fly Higher" and "Life in Full Bloom", regarded Xu Wei as the biggest "enemy". In 2006, in memory of the late musician Zhang Ju, Chinese rock stars recorded a single "Gift", including Ding Wu, Luan Shu and Zhang Chu. Xu Wei sang the first sentence, and Wang Feng sang along. After that, Wang Feng asked seven people to call Xu Wei and told him to say, "You are the only opponent I think."

However, in recent years when Xú Zhēng didn't want to fight, the talent show was in full swing. Ai Jing and Li Yanliang went to be judges of Fast Girl, Luan Shu also went to be a mentor of I am a singer, and Wang Feng went to be a mentor of The Voice. This is a program with the highest ratings for three consecutive seasons. In fact, The Voice once heard that Xú Zhēng was a mentor, but Xú Zhēng never admitted it.

As a broker, Yu Jie also considered the market for Xu Wei. She admits that many popular singing programs have been calling Xu Wei to appear on the show, but all of them were rejected by Xu Wei. "To tell the truth, his personality is very inappropriate, and it may ruin the program. Although people will think you are modest, in fact, he is not good at speaking in front of the media and can't let go. The program is more suitable for Harlem and Na Ying, not for him. He is too serious, these programs are entertaining, and he actually reduced the points for the programs. It is very uncomfortable to sit there. "

Xu Wei announced many years ago that he would no longer walk the red carpet and only perform at the awards ceremony. For so many years, Xu Wei has been persistent. 20 15 A newspaper in Shenzhen invited Xu Wei to perform at the award ceremony. Xu Wei asked the organizers "no awards, no red carpet, no group interviews", which made the other party's top management very headache. The organizer of "Don't Walk the Red Carpet" felt a little unreasonable, and the cooperation was almost interrupted.

Without publicity, the exposure rate is also reduced. This circle is so cruel, which means that there will be fewer performances and endorsements. Yu Jie said that many high-end brands have been sought in recent years, but they have all been rejected by Xu Wei. "He refused too much." In the end, the merchants will think that he has no commercial value, which is also the problem that she communicated with Xu Wei the most in the past two years.

In 2005, 28 years, I fell in love with each other.

Wrote two songs for love.

Music is probably the best way to express love. Many singers know it very well, and Xu Wei is no exception.

I am lonely and wild in this world.

A cloud of doubt is floating in my heart? Without you,

I might wither? Maybe I will fall?

Your love makes me happy?

Like the first time I took a shower? In the bright sunshine of the plateau

This song named Love is 5 minutes and 20 seconds long, which can be said to be very romantic.

There is also a song "Lover", which is also 5 minutes and 20 seconds long. These details hide a little caution and a full mind.

Like a quiet stream flowing deep in the jungle.

Twinkling stars in the blue night sky

Your eyes

You once gave me the warmth of spring.

You are still walking through my endless dreams.

What a lovely man. Many people will be surprised by this kind of Xu Wei. People define him too much. He is a bard, a rock prodigal, and a humanist singer and poet.

And these identities have a boundless sense of wandering, and "on the road" is his biggest label.

He sang "Freedom Like the Wind" and "Nothing can stop my yearning for freedom", but few people know that this young Xu, who is always at home like the wind, has always had a warm harbor.

It has been 28 years since Xú Zhēng and Yuan Feng met on 1989. As time goes by, they still love each other as before.

1992, Xu Wei, then a literary and art soldier in Shaanxi, wrote a song to Yuan Feng. This song is "Perseverance" sung by Tian Zhen and popular all over the country.

Obsessed with Xu Wei? -? On the way …

Later, Xu Wei was demobilized and played music. He looks like a particularly unruly young man with long hair, while Yuan Feng is still an officer. When two people walk together in the street, they often attract strange eyes from passers-by.

And this kind of love has naturally not been blessed by the woman's family, or even recognized.

During the period of love, Yuan Feng had to obey the arrangement to go on a blind date in order not to violate his parents. When I saw the blind date Yuan Feng, I said at the first time, "Sorry, I have a boyfriend."

In this way, no matter how others don't like it, both of them are extremely determined and finally make a positive result in 1998.

However, after marriage, their lives were not smooth sailing. They have experienced poverty under the pull of ideals and reality, and also experienced the hardships of separation between the two places, but the most difficult thing is that Xu Wei was devastated after suffering from severe depression.

In 2000, Xú Zhēng released the album of that year, and classic songs such as Hometown, Warmth and Direction all came from here. And this year is also the most serious period of depression in Xu Wei.

Xu Wei recalled that time: "I struggled with 10,000 suicidal thoughts every day, and then defeated it with 10,000 thoughts that I wanted to live ..."

Behind him, Yuan Feng never left him. Taking care of him in every possible way, Yuan Feng, who has no music foundation, also learned the guitar and played it to Xu Wei a little bit to ease his mood.

Until one day, when Yuan Feng played the guitar again, he suddenly heard a response. Xu Wei, who hadn't picked up the guitar for a long time, plucked the strings again.

Last year's Lu Yu You Yue interviewed Xu Wei. Lu Yu said that when interviewing middle-aged men, she would always avoid asking, "Do you still believe in love?" But she thinks she can ask Xu Wei, because he is still a teenager at heart.

Hearing this, Xu Wei expressed his thanks with his hands folded, saying, "I think love is a kind of fate, a kind of grace, not a simple secular desire."

06, Xu Wei returned after six years.

See through life and love it.

20 18 12.26, Xu Wei's new album Endless Light was released. After listening to the whole album, familiar voice, familiar melody line, familiar arrangement and familiar image, this is a long time no see friend, a deja vu album.

Whether it is good or bad really can't be answered, only that this is the growth of a singer and a man. Xu Wei has completely found his own style since he was a teenager. He just needs to bring himself to us again.

The album "Once You" in 2006 moved and accompanied the author during that time, and I still remember many songs from headphones on sleepless nights. At that time, Xu Wei was a teenager who pursued love and ideals and searched up and down in his life journey. Sometimes confused, sometimes enlightened, share the ups and downs of love and life with us. In the new album "Endless Light", he is already a middle-aged man who has lost his boyhood, experienced the changes of his life and learned to let go.

There is a line in "To the Youth We Will Die": "In fact, loving a person should be like loving the mountains and rivers of the motherland." It is Xu Wei's self-expression in the album "Endless Light" that makes her walk out of the laughter and tears of little love and enter the peaceful and joyful love. May all sadness/praise the power of joy/just as you love the world/your endless light.

Xu Wei found his true self instead of a certain belief.

Confusion when you are young is precious, and clarity when you grow up is also rare. I once dreamed of going to the world with a sword/seeing the prosperity of the world. After seeing the prosperity, I realized that "I don't guess/I don't wander/the sunrise is just around the corner" is also a landscape of life. "Youth/we can't help it/just because of this burning dream", we realized the impermanence of the world, and finally issued a sigh "I once loved deeply, so I loved deeply/but I am no longer attached to it".

Ten years later, after listening to Xu Wei's songs, I found that as the lyrics say, "Always say goodbye/get together and leave/always walk a long way". It turns out that life is the most cunning and intelligent author, the grass snake gray line, a pulse of thousands of miles.

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