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The Wynners: Music is Live Concer

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Winnie Chung

The Wynners: Music is Live Concert Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre April 20 Although the Wynners have been disbanded for longer than they were together, the five-man group still holds the honour of being the ones who brought the Canto-pop band sound to the rest of Southeast Asia with hits like L-O-V-E and Sha-la-la.

Alan Tam Wing-lun, Kenny Bee, Anthony Chan Yau, Bennett Pang Kin-sang and Danny Yip Chi-keung went their separate ways in the mid-70s, but remain good friends and get together every five years for a reunion concert.

This marks their silver anniversary, and this concert served as a prelude and a warm-up for their proper concerts at the Hong Kong Coliseum in August. As such, the show was a lot briefer than most concert-goers were used to, with Tam calling an initial end after only about 70 minutes on stage.

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But since the show was free for the Manhattan 903 id club members and Commercial Radio listeners, there was little cause for complaint.

Surely, Tam forgot some of his lyrics - something which he is infamous for anyway - and the whole show was more like a jam session than a proper concert.

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The show started off rather weak in the acoustics with a rearranged version of L-O-V-E and Go To Pieces. Tam's microphone was hardly audible and also suffered some terrible feedback.

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