Chinese singer Wang Feng gave his Beijing solo concert, titled "Flying Higher," at Beijing Exhibition Center on September 17, 2004.
Wang played nearly 20 original songs of various musical styles to look back on his ten-year trek on Rock & Roll music.
Goodnight Beijing is the most popular song among Wang's fans:
I'll sleep in the rain tonight. In the noise of homemade steamrollers, with the pain of the wound, I'll sleep in the rain tonight. Goodnight Beijing, goodnight all the sleepless people...
"For music makers, the primary advantage of Beijing is that they can get responses in the city," Wang Feng said. Thanks to the publication of the local music radio program Midnight Blues, Wang and his band members got the response they deserved and then produced their first album No.43 Baojia Street which enjoyed the same title of his band. Goodnight Beijing is the representative work of the album.
Were he living in another city in China, Wang dares not imagine what his life would be like today.
Beijing was the last and only choice for China's underground music makers. Some are still unacknowledged here and others finally succeed. After all, Beijing doesn't promise anything for anyone.
With the exception of several years during his childhood, Wang has spent most of his time in Beijing. "Sometimes I feel that the place you live in is more important than yourself, or only by finding a city suitable can he feel at home." In his opinion, Beijing is much inferior to many foreign developed cities as he has been to many countries. Even so Wang still feels very proud to live in Beijing. His pride doesn't depend on whether Beijing is the capital, whether developed or not, but that it has soul.
Writing about Beijing, Wang will never exhaust his creative power. He says, "So long as you are broad-minded, the city will stimulate your creative inspiration all the time. He wrote at home, made friends from all walks of life in Beijing and moved from one place to another... "One who doesn't experience failure and torture will never understand the other side of the great city," Wang said.
Wang Feng's album "Flower Fire"
Wang's album "Love Is a Happy Bullet"
Wang's album " Crying with a Smile"
(China.org.cn by Li Xiao September 22, 2004)
