Exploiting Hollywood 1980

Pasadena's Civic Auditorium has two levels of seating and a large stage for performances, with stairs for backup dancers and harmonies. The semicircular stage in front is so close to the audience in the front row that you can reach out and touch it.

The two tickets given by Michael Jackson were located slightly towards the back, on the aisle in more than a dozen rows, which was really the best seat to watch the performance.

Ronald politely asked Diane to sit in the back seat, and he sat next to the aisle. After sitting down, he looked at each other and smiled. There were more than a thousand spectators at the scene, and the atmosphere was already very lively even before the show started.

The seating arrangement is very interesting. Most of the people on Ronald and Diane's side are white spectators wearing elegant dresses, while next to them are black spectators. There are also some black children wearing gaudy red bow ties, which may belong to the actors. relatives.

After a while, the curtain opened, and the first person to appear was Lionel Richie. After he sang a solo song, he played with his previous band. . The black audience was already applauding and cheering enthusiastically. Ronald and Diane were not familiar with their history, so they had to applaud twice in agreement.

Black artists are more casual. Marvin Gaye, who came next, simply spent a few minutes introducing the history of black music, and then sang his classic song "What's Going On" from Motown Records. The audience applauded overwhelmingly.

"Marvin should have stayed in Motown and not gone to Columbia, where white people were in power." A young black man across the aisle helped Ronald understand.

However, these black people are loyal to their old club.

After several more singing stars that neither Ronald nor Diane knew, it was finally Michael Jackson's turn to perform. Like Marvin Gaye, he has moved on to other record labels. But this time it was not just him who came up, but also his four brothers.

"Jackson 5!" The audience set off another craze. This was a chorus formed by the Jackson family. Michael wore a diamond-encrusted top, tight nine-point pants, white socks, black leather shoes, and only one left hand with a white diamond-encrusted glove.

jackson 5 sang their most famous single "i want you back". This ignited the common memory of all black people, who stood up and swayed to the rhythm.

The white audience on Ronald's side didn't even stand up, they just clapped along with the rhythm.

"Thank you, Jackson 5 is already a piece of history, and now I'm going to sing... my own single.

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The band played the intro to MJ's latest single "Billie Jean". Michael Jackson took the black top hat and put it on his head, then turned to face the audience and struck a ready pose.

"Ah...ah..." The enthusiasm of the white audience was also detonated. Countless white girls at the front desk and behind stood up screaming.

Diane also grabbed Ronald's head and stood up to cheers inspired by the atmosphere.

This "Billie Jean" is not a Motown song, and it is also the only single not produced by Motown so far. However, Michael Jackson is now the number one singer on the charts. His presence in the show is enough for Motown, and a single is not a big problem.

MJ covered his crotch with his white gloves, twisted quickly, danced in a fast pace, combed his hair, and made the shape of an empty guitar. The emotions of the entire audience were already inflamed by MJ's performance.

"Pah...pah...pah..." MJ used the moonwalk that he had practiced for several months, and watched as he stepped forward, but the person stepped back.

"Ahhhh..." This dance step seemed to detonate explosives. All women in the audience, regardless of skin color, age, single or married, shouted that they wanted to tear off the roof. Several female audience members in the front row couldn't hold it any longer and wanted to climb up on stage to touch MJ's feet.

Ronald was so disturbed by Diane's scream that he dug his ears. This dance choreography looked so familiar. Did he learn break dancing from Michael Jackson in his previous life?

Ronald noticed that this wave had more white girls screaming, while black girls were relatively calm.

After MJ left the show, there was another wave of black celebrities that Ronald didn't recognize. The show is exciting, but the arrangement is not very good. Sometimes the singers will sing an extra song or introduce their old partners when they feel like it.

Except for the blind singer Stevie Wonder, I don’t know anyone else.

Ronald looked at his watch. More than an hour had passed. Just when he was feeling a little tired, a soft sound of music sounded, and the spotlight shone back, lighting up the entrance to the city hall. Everyone looked back, and a figure flashed out of the empty entrance.

“There are no mountains high enough, no rivers wide enough,

If you need me, call me, no matter where you are, no matter how far away you are,

Baby, call my name and I will rush over..."

A good-looking black singer, with a head of afro black hair, a white diamond-encrusted high-shoulder shirt on her upper body, a black tight-fitting butt-covering lower body, and diamond-encrusted high heels under black stockings, taking sexy steps, imported from Go to the stage.

Her arrival caused a standing ovation from the audience. It was the most famous singer since the founding of Motown, Diana Ross, who entered the venue.

Holding a wireless microphone in one hand and a white fur shawl in the other, Diana Ross's superstar aura is unstoppable, like a vortex, sucking all the attention of the audience and stars to her body.

"Oh, this is the style of a superstar. I really like the aura of this kind of singer. I will dress like this if I have the opportunity in the future." Diane Lane was standing next to her, her eyes fixed on Diane walking through the aisle. Anna Rose, this emotion seems to be jealousy, and it seems to be envy. It is more likely to be a hope that I will be as glorious as that.

Just like a movie can only have one heroine, a concert can only have one female singer.

Diana Ross sang "ain't no mountain high enough", her hit single, which caused the climax of the all-singing concert.

After singing this song, two female singers came onto the stage from both sides, one in a white dress and the other in a red dress. They were the two partners of Diana Ross in the band Supremes. The three singers reunited and became the Supremes band to sing for everyone.

As Diana Ross called out the names of old colleagues and friends one by one, all the singers from Motown for the past 25 years came on stage and the whole audience started to sing loudly.

The ending scene was so long and nasty that many Motown Records employees, managers, backers, and young singers who had not made their debut all jumped on stage to take photos with the superstars.

Seeing that there was no encore, Ronald quickly pulled Diane to leave first, otherwise there would be a traffic jam.

The two left together with the crowd of many white spectators, jumped into their rented car, and asked the driver to drive to Los Angeles.

Diane was holding Ronald's arm in the back seat. She was very happy today, as if she had become the protagonist of her life.

Ronald also smiled at her, "You put on makeup today to look like a jazz singer, but you are going to play a rock singer."

"Hmm...what, is the makeup too thick? I can't always draw it well on my own."

Diane's lipstick and eye shadow are indeed a bit darker. Girls of this age don't actually need heavy stage makeup.

"It's not bad. 'Streets of Rage' always provides you with a good makeup artist."

Soon the car returned to the hotel, and Ronald took Diane back to the door of the room where Bert and her lived.

"We're here, Diane."

"Good night, Ronnie." Diane took out the key card and shook it. "Then I'll go in."

"Okay, see you at the premiere of 'The Naughty Boy'." Ronald turned around and wanted to leave.

"Huh?" Seeing that Ronald wanted to leave, Diane Lane quickly opened the door, "Why don't you come in and sit down?"

"I have to go home and write a script. It's a great day, Diane." Ronald hugged Diane and kissed her cheek. "Hi, Bert." Ronald greeted Bert who was behind Diane.

"Burt," Diane turned around and saw that it was her father, then turned to Ronald and said, "I shot a concert scene at the beginning of 'Streets of Rage'. You will also come to the set to guide me?" "

"Burt is here, I can't say anything." Ronald waved his hand to the father and daughter, watching Diane bit her lower lip in disappointment, "But I will go to the set to encourage you, remember to call and tell My time.”

"Bye!" Diane waved to him and walked into the room.

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