''Leslie '89'' is a
cantopop
Cantopop (a contraction of "Cantonese pop music") or HK-pop (short for "Hong Kong pop music") is a genre of pop music written in standard Chinese and sung in Cantonese. Cantopop is also used to refer to the cultural context of its production ...
album by
Leslie Cheung
Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing (12 September 1956 – 1 April 2003) was a Hong Kong singer and actor. Throughout a 26-year career from 1977 until his death, Cheung released over 40 music albums and acted in 56 films. He was one of the most prominent ...
released in 1989 by
Cinepoly Records of
Hong Kong
Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta i ...
. It was also his supposed penultimate album before the final album ''
Final Encounter'' (he had planned for retirement from the
Cantopop
Cantopop (a contraction of "Cantonese pop music") or HK-pop (short for "Hong Kong pop music") is a genre of pop music written in standard Chinese and sung in Cantonese. Cantopop is also used to refer to the cultural context of its production ...
music scene, although he made a return in 1995) also released in 1989. It is also sometimes known as 側面 or ''Side Face''.
Popular songs from this album include 由零開始 'Starting From Zero', 烈火燈蛾 'Fire Moths', 側面 'Side Face', 偏心 'Biased', 需要你 'Need You', and 放蕩 'Wild'. 'Side Face' won the Jade Solid Gold Award for 1989.
Leslie Cheung albums
1989 albums
Cinepoly Records albums
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