世界上最赚钱的歌曲（2012）

摇滚
如果我们不能靠写歌♥谋生
"And if we can't make a living writing songs,
就不得不另寻他法了
"Then we're going to have to do something else for a living,
议员 你不会想要奥茲·奥斯本
"And, congressman, you do not want Ozzy Osbourne
英国摇滚 重金属歌♥手
黑色安息日乐团主唱
来通你家水管的"
as your plumber."
但前景并非完全一片惨淡
But it's not all doom and gloom out there.
二十一世纪确实带来了新的挑战
The 21st century is throwing up new challenges,
但同时 它也为歌♥曲作者
but it's creating possibilities
带来了新的可能与机遇
and openings for songwriters, as well.
总地来说 我看好音乐行业的未来
I'm very bullish on the future of the music industry in general.
摩西·阿瓦隆
艺术家权利活动家 音乐商业顾问
未来歌♥曲作者 艺术家 唱片公♥司♥
Song writers, artists, record companies, everybody in the future
所有人都有可能比过去
is going to be probably making a lot more money
赚更多钱
than they made in the past.
有电影 电视授权 手♥机♥软件
There's film, television licensing, mobile apps,
流媒体音乐 流媒体业务
streaming music, streaming services,
贺卡 还有各种音乐制♥作♥设备
greeting cards and all kinds of music-producing devices.
就在你收听这个广播节目的同时
Even as you're listening to this broadcast,
超过二十五万台音乐制♥作♥设备正在生产中
over 250,000 music producing devices are being manufactured.
不久前 阿姆联合嘎嘎小姐和贾斯汀·比伯
Not so long ago, Eminem joined Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber
使他的视频网站频道播放量超过了一亿
in racking up over a billion views on his YouTube Channel.
他为蕾哈娜的《爱你说谎的方式》拍摄的视频
And a video he made with Rihanna, for Love The Way You Lie,
创下了日点击量的纪录
set a record for the most hits in one day.
滚石杂♥志♥估算 每一千次
Rolling Stone Magazine estimates that a writer
油管网站播放量 作者会获得六十便士
earns around 60p per 1,000 YouTube plays.
阿姆的歌♥有十亿播放量 自己算算吧
Eminem's songs have had a billion. You do the maths.
下一首是英国歌♥曲创作的经典作品
Our next song is a classic of British songwriting
来自有史以来最伟大的乐队
from the greatest band of all time.
作者是保罗·麦卡特尼 你可能听说过他
It was written by Paul McCartney, who you've probably heard of.
你也许模糊地记得他所在的乐队 披头士
You may also be vaguely aware of the band he was in, The Beatles.
这首歌♥录制于1965年
And this was recorded in 1965.
最赚钱的歌♥曲第四名 就是《昨日》
Our number four richest song is Yesterday.
♪昨日♪
♪Yesterday♪
♪所有烦恼似乎都已远去♪
♪All my troubles seemed so far away♪
♪如今似乎又都在眼前♪
♪Now it looks as though they're here to stay♪
♪哦 我宁愿相信昨日♪
♪Oh, I believe in yesterday...♪
你有没有认真想过这首歌♥从何而来
Have you really thought where the song came from?
你有没有搞清楚
Have you been able to work it out?
我不知道 如你所说 是我梦到的
I don't know, you know, as you say, I dreamed it,
帕金森秀 1999年
有天早上我醒来 脑中就有这段旋律
and woke up one morning with the tune in my head.
其实我当时不相信那是自己写的
Didn't believe it was mine, really.
我就觉得 不可能
I just thought...well, it can't be
因为我有了整首曲子
cos I've got the whole tune,
从来都没有这样过
you know, it never happens like that.
所以说来奇怪 这首歌♥大获成功
It is strange that it's sort of the most successful,
但某种程度上来说它根本不是我写的
that I didn't even write it really, in a way,
而是我的潜意识写出来的
but my subconscious wrote it.
麦卡特尼说过他是在196♥4♥年
McCartney has said this melody came to him
和披头士一起在法国巡演时写出的旋律
on a tour of France with The Beatles in 196♥4♥.
为了记住这段旋律 在写出《昨日》的
So he could remember it, before he came up with the words
歌♥词之前 保罗·麦卡特尼是这么唱的
to Yesterday, Paul McCartney remembered this by singing,
"炒鸡蛋 我的宝贝 我爱你的腿"
"Scrambled eggs, oh, my baby, how I love your legs."
宝贝是指当时和他同居的简·亚瑟
The baby being Jane Asher with whom he was living at the time.
对于一首最初用炒鸡蛋哼唱的歌♥来说
Not bad for a song that had its beginnings
还真是不错
humbly in scrambled eggs.
♪炒鸡蛋♪
♪Scrambled eggs♪
保罗·麦卡特尼和吉米·法♥伦♥ 2010年
吉米·法♥伦♥美国著名脱口秀节目主持人
♪我的宝贝 我爱你的腿♪
♪Oh, my baby, how I love your legs♪
♪但我更爱炒鸡蛋♪
♪Not as much as I love scrambled eggs♪
♪我们应该吃点炒鸡蛋♪
♪Oh, we should eat some scrambled eggs...♪
根据我的统计 那首歌♥火了好多年
From what I gather, that song was knocking around for ages.
他们当时忙于各种工作
They were doing different things,
他们在拍电影的时候
they were working on a film
旁边摆了一台钢琴
and they had a piano to the side
麦卡特尼总是走过镜头
and McCartney kept going across
叮叮当当弹起来 又开始唱这首歌♥
and tinkling away and that song came up again
变成了乐队开的玩笑
and it became the joke of the band,
又开始唱炒鸡蛋了
here goes scrambled eggs again.
鸡蛋味的歌♥词终于在1965年5月
The eggy lyrics were finally replaced in May 1965.
换成了非常悲观 甚至令人抑郁的新词
With some pretty downbeat, if not depressing, new words.
现在回想
Looking back on it now,
有人提出这可能
people have suggested that it might have been
和我母亲去世有关
to do with the death of my mum.
因为歌♥词里有"为什么她一定要离去
Cos it has got, "Why she had to go,
我不知道 她不愿说
I don't know, she wouldn't say,
我宁愿相信昨日"之类的
"I believe in yesterday" And stuff.
所以可能在潜意识里有这个原因
So it may have been subconsciously something to do with that.
我要试着回忆一下这首歌♥
I'm trying to remember it, now.
♪昨日♪
♪Yesterday♪
♪一切烦恼似乎都已远去♪
♪All my troubles seemed so far away♪
♪如今似乎又都在眼前♪
♪Now it looks as though they're here to stay♪
♪哦 我宁愿相信昨日♪
♪Oh, I believe in yesterday...♪
现在很难相信
It's hard to believe now,
但1965年很多人认为披头士四人组的歌♥
but in 1965 many found the Fab Four's music
太现代 很危险
dangerously modern.
麦卡特尼的疼痛民谣更易接受一些
McCartney's aching ballad was more acceptable.
可以说这是一首给不喜欢披头士的人
You could say it was a Beatles song for people
听的披头士歌♥曲
who didn't like The Beatles.
♪昨日♪
♪Yesterday...♪
《昨日》席卷全球榜单
Yesterday went on to be a chart hit across the globe,
美国 澳大利亚 德国 挪威等等
the US, Australia, Germany, Norway, on and on and on.
但热门歌♥曲是福也是祸
But a huge hit can be a curse as well as a blessing.
尤其当它由乐队成员之一创作时
Especially when it's written by one band member.
《昨日》是披头士第一首
Yesterday was the first Beatles song
由麦卡特尼独自创作的歌♥曲
McCartney wrote alone,
而且约翰 乔治和林戈都没有参与表演
and John, George and Ringo didn't perform on it.
可以说《昨日》就是最终导致
You could say that Yesterday was the song that,
披头士解散的那首歌♥
in the end, broke up The Beatles.
保罗·麦卡特尼和约翰·列侬之间
There was always immense creative tension
在创作方面关系一直非常紧张
between Paul McCartney and John Lennon.
保罗·麦卡特尼抛出了这些曲子
And so Paul McCartney is throwing off these tunes, you know,
约翰·列侬可能不承认 但肯定很怨恨
and John Lennon might not admit it but he must have resented it.
他内心肯定有一部分在想"我也可以"
There must have been part of him that thought "I could do that."
披头士解散后 列侬做到了
And after The Beatles split up, Lennon did.
他有一首歌♥尖刻地提及了《昨日》
One of the songs included a bitter reference to Yesterday.
后来有了那首可怕的《你睡得好吗》
Later on in that horrible song How Do You Sleep?
他说是为保罗·麦卡特尼写的
that he wrote about Paul McCartney,
其中有句歌♥词是
he'd say, one of the lines is...
♪你唯一的成就就是《昨日》♪
♪The only thing you done was Yesterday...♪
他对这首歌♥记恨了很长时间
That rankled with him for a long, long time.
《昨日》的作者署名为列侬/麦卡特尼
Yesterday was credited to Lennon/ McCartney,
与披头士大部分歌♥一样
as most of The Beatles' songs were,
可能有点奇怪 因为这是麦卡特尼自己写的
which might seem odd, as McCartney wrote it alone.
但后来列侬也分出了他独自创作的
But then Lennon shared his royalties
披头士歌♥曲所得的版税
on Beatles' songs he wrote solo, too.
当《昨日》收录在1995年选集中时
When Yesterday appeared on the 1995 anthology,
麦卡特尼试图将作者署名改为
McCartney unsuccessfully attempted
麦卡特尼/列侬 但没有成功
tohave the credit changed to McCartney/Lennon.
对于披头士 你要意识到
What you have to realise with The Beatles,
披头士合体的时间非常短暂
is that the afterlife of the Beatles was longer,
而他们解散后的生命更长久
more complex, more tortured, more painful
更复杂 更扭曲 也更痛苦
than the quite brief period that they were together.
法♥院♥
很多次争论都是他们和律师们
A lot of those arguments were people and their lawyers,
代表们围坐在
their representatives sitting around
伦敦或者纽约等地的会议桌边
boardroom tables in London and New York or whatever,
试图划分这些人
trying to divvy up this massively lucrative
在二十三四岁时匆匆完成的
legacy that these guys had knocked out
利润可观的遗产 当时
when they were 23, 24, years old, at a time when there
没有先例 没有人做过这样的事