| "Queen's Road East" | |||||||||||
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| Song by Lo Ta-yu featuring Ram Chiang | |||||||||||
| from the album 皇后大道東 (Queen's Road East) | |||||||||||
| Language | Cantonese | ||||||||||
| Released | 23 January 1991 | ||||||||||
| Length | 4:10[1] | ||||||||||
| Label | Music Factory | ||||||||||
| Composer(s) | Lo Ta-yu | ||||||||||
| Lyricist(s) | Albert Leung | ||||||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 皇后大道東 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 皇后大道东 | ||||||||||
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"Queen's Road East" (Chinese: 皇后大道東) is a song by Taiwanese singer-songwriter Lo Ta-yu, featuring Hong Kong singer Ram Chiang.[2] It was released on 23 January 1991 as the title track of Lo's Cantonese-language compilation album of the same name.[3][4] The song was composed by Lo and written by Hong Kong lyricist Albert Leung.[5][6] It is named after Queen's Road East, a street in Hong Kong, and satirically expresses the anxiety felt by the city's residents over the impending handover of Hong Kong in 1997.
The song was banned in Mainland China twice, once upon its release in 1991 and a second time in 2019, during that year's protests in Hong Kong.
- ^ Muzikland (21 December 2020). 香港流行音樂專輯101：第三部（1990-1999） [Hong Kong Pop Albums 101: Part 3 (1990-1999)]. FeiFan Publishers. p. 46. ISBN 978-988-8675-51-7. Archived from the original on 3 September 2022. Retrieved 3 September 2022.
- ^ Barmé, Geremie R. (1 January 1997). "Hong Kong the floating city". Index on Censorship. 26 (1): 150. doi:10.1177/030642209702600131. ISSN 0306-4220. S2CID 152126729. Retrieved 11 August 2022.
- ^ Chang, Meng-jui (September 2011). "Rebel Without a Pause: Singer-Songwriter Lo Ta-yu". Taiwan Panorama Magazine. Julius Tsai, Phil Newell (trans.). Archived from the original on 10 September 2022. Retrieved 12 August 2022.
- ^ Scheihagene, Eric (2 October 2018). "An Ode to Lo Ta-yu, a Taiwanese Cultural Icon & Mandopop Legend". The News Lens. Archived from the original on 3 August 2021. Retrieved 12 August 2022.
- ^ 罗大佑《皇后大道东》被音乐平台全面下架 [Lo Ta-yu's "Queen's Road East" taken down from music platforms]. China Digital Times (in Chinese). 21 June 2019. Archived from the original on 26 January 2021. Retrieved 12 August 2022.
- ^ Huang, Chi-lin 黃啟霖 (22 June 2019). 香港反送中 「皇后大道東」遭中國下架 [Hong Kong anti-extradition protests: "Queen's Road East" taken down in China]. Radio Taiwan International (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 12 August 2022. Retrieved 12 August 2022.