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Unit 5 Music
Have you ever
wanted to be part of a band as a famous singer or
musician? Have you
ever dreamed of
playing in front of thousands of people at a
concert, at which
everyone is clapping
and appreciating your music? Do you sing karaoke
and pretend
you are a famous
singer
like
Song
Zuying
or Liu
Huan? To
be honest, a lot of
people
attach great importance to becoming
rich and famous. But just how do people form
a band?
Many
musicians
meet
and
form
a
band
because
they
like
to
write
and
play
their
own
music.
They
may
start
as
a
group
of
high-school
students,
for
whom
practising
their
music in
someone
’
s house is the first
step to fame. Sometimes they may play to
passers-by in the street or subway so
that they can earn some extra money for
themselves
or
to
pay
for
their
instruments.
Later
they
may
give
performances
in
pubs
or clubs, for which
they are paid in cash. Of course they hope to make
records in
a studio and sell millions
of copies to become millionaires!
However, there was one band that
started in a different way. It was called the
Monkees and began as a TV show. The
musicians were to play jokes on each other as
well
as
play
music,
most
of
which
was
based
loosely
on
the
Beatles.
The
TV
organizers
had planned to
find four musicians who could act as well as sing.
They put an
advertisement in a
newspaper looking for rock musicians, but they
could only find
one who was good
enough. They had to use actors for the other three
members of the
band.
As some of these actors could not
sing well enough, they had to rely on other
musicians
to
help
them.
So
during
the
broadcasts
they
just
pretended
to
sing.
Anyhow
their performances were
humorous enough
to be
copied by
other groups.
They were
so
popular that their fans formed clubs in
order to get more familiar with them. Each
week
on
TV,
the
Monkees
would
play
and
sing
songs
written
by
other
musicians.
However,
after a year or so
in which they became more serious about their
work, the Monkees
started
to
play
and
sing
their
own
songs
like
a
real
band.
Then
they
produced
their
own
records
and
started
touring
and
playing
their
own
music.
In
the
USA
they
became
even more popular
than the Beatles and sold even more records. The
band broke up
about 1970,
but happily
they reunited in
the mid-1980s. They produced a
new record
in 1996, with
which they celebrated their former time as a real
band.
FREDDY THE FROG(II)
Not long
after Freddy and the band became famous, they
visited Britain on a brief
tour. Fans
showed their devotion by waiting for hours to get
tickets for their
concerts.
Freddy
was
now
quite
confident
when
he
went
into
a
concert
hall.
He
enjoyed
singing and all the congratulations
afterwards! His most exciting invitation was
to perform on a TV programme called
“
Top of the
Pops.
”
He had to go to
London,
wear
an
expensive
suit
and
give
a
performance
to
a
TV
camera.
It
felt
very
strange.
But as soon as the
programme was over, the telephones which were in
the same room
started
ringing.
Everybody
was
asking
when
they
could
see
Freddy
and
his
band
again.
They
were truly stars.
Then
things
went
wrong.
Freddy
and
his
band
could
not
go
out
anywhere
without
being
followed.
Even
when
they
wore
sunglasses
or
beards
people
recognized
them.
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