Leslie for 'Untitled' EP - 2000
Past music award ceremonies: 'Winner of 1999
Golden Music Award...Cheung Kwok Wing'. 'Ten Best Songs...Cheung
Kwok Wing', '1st place... Cheung Kwok Wing'
Leslie's voice: 'Thank you, thank you all!'
LEGEND CONTINUES...
Very happy to be releasing a new album (EP). This Ep has 5 songs
on it. Alfred, my partner, said to me this CD will be released in
early March, a few weeks after Valentine's Day, and I wanted it
to be extremely romantic. So... all the songs are love songs
The 1st song - the composer is Chan Yiu Gin. There was an
excellent arrangement for this song and the lyrics were written
by the great writer Lam Jik. You can not go wrong with Lam Jik
writing a song. For me, being an actor/artiste when I first heard
this song, I thought/imagined a love triangle, a love
triangle of two guys and a girl scenario. I think it is a very
tragic story about love. I tried to make sure that this feeling
of love lost across to the audience. Yes, I really loved the
lyrics to this song and really wanted to make sure I did a good
job of conveying these feelings of lost in the song.
The 2nd song - I got to work with Adrian Chan again. I really
like to listen to very --- instruments (could not figure out the
word he used). I like listening to the cello or the aucostic
guitar. I find that they are very comforting. This is another Lam
Jik lyrics. And as I said all the songs are about love. In this
song... it talks about love gone away. A broken heart
song. the guy is hurt and knows that there is no way to work
things out and he does not want his lover to hate him. So he
feels that this love song will help her/him get over the pain of
the break up.. to not hate him anymore. I think this is a very
deep song. When lovers part... this song was written to help
lovers overcome this..
The 3rd song - I think everyone is familiar with this song. It is
an acoustic version of 'Left Right Hand'. The first time I
recorded this song I told the arranger that I thought this song
would be good with just a guitar solo. I wanted it to be simplier,
so we remixed it with just the guitar. The inital recording we
used a very hollow sound to the vocals, like what you would hear
on the bad connected telephone conversation. It is not until the
chorus that it is my own voice unaltered... so this version is
not the same as the original. I hope everyone likes this version
as much as the first.
The 4th song - this song's lyrics was written by Gary Tong. The
last time we worked together was on a song called 'Blamefully
beautiful' which was very well received. It has been 3
years since then. I think this is a trully 'soulful'
song. I got to work with Chow Lai Mau... something that I had
wanted to do for a long time but our schedules were not
compatible til now. I think this is a very sexy song. It starts
with me speaking a few words... it gives me the feeling of lovers
whispering in bed, saying I always want you with me... like my
pillow, but not a pillow... I want real life flesh and blood. I
really love this song on the EP.
The 5th song - when I first learned to sing, I sang english songs
and there were a few singers that I really enjoyed listening to
like Elton John and Olivia Newton-John. Hey! Why are they both
'johns'? (he smiles). This song was originally sang by Olivia Newton-John
and the titled is 'I honestly love you'. I think many
people will be familiar with this song. I have loved this
romantic song since I was young. All the other love songs
on this EP were about breaking up, feeling of lost love, and
being more than just a pillow... so for the last song... it is my
gift to you... a genunine love song.
This is what everyone wants to hear: someone to say to you 'I
honestly love you'
He translated the title in Chinese and then he said: "Would
you not love to hear someone say this? I would.
Songs mentioned by Leslie are: 'Passing Dragonfly', 'You hate me like that', 'Left Right Hand', 'Pillow' and 'I honestly love you'.
many thanks to Cindy and Hong for the translation