伍佰

2007-12-16T23:52:00.000-08:00

伍佰（1968年1月14日－）本名吳俊霖，台灣嘉義縣六腳鄉蒜頭村人，為知名的歌手及詞曲創作者。有「台客皇帝」、「台灣搖滾天王」等封號。

生平
伍佰的父親退休前在台灣糖業公司蒜頭糖廠工作，母親則是在賣檳榔。家裡還有兩個弟弟，不過後來都因為車禍去世。

家庭
吳俊霖先後就讀於蒜頭國小、嘉義高中。「伍佰」是他的小名，因為從小擔任班幹部，學習成績很好，5門考試科科都是100分，所以家裡人叫他「伍佰」，意思是 5科100分。但是上了高中，迷上音樂後，忽略了功課，結果高中念了6年，6科有4科不及格。大學聯考失利後，便轉而發展音樂事業。

藝名由來
沒有考上大學的伍佰受林強等人提攜，於1992年以本名在《少年吔，安啦！》電影原聲帶中演唱。隨後與貝斯手朱劍輝（小朱）、鍵盤手余大豪（大貓）以及鼓手 Dean Zavolta（Dino）組成China Blue開始演唱生涯。並走遍全台灣各地PUB，包括「息壤」、「The Gate」到「Live Ago-Go」等大型pub增進現場演唱的實力並增加人氣，自此「伍佰」和「Live」正式劃上等號。。
1996年首次舉辦『夏夜晚風』大型演唱會，以及『伍佰來了』巡迴演唱，在當時創下演唱會的票房記錄。並於隔年起出國演唱，以其現場演唱的功力，唱遍台北市立體育場、香港紅磡體育館、新加坡室內體育館、北京首都體育館等華人地區大型場館及馬來西亞室內體育館、美國House of Blues場館。1998年為台灣啤酒代言而巡迴在台灣煙酒公賣局（今台灣煙酒公司）各地的酒廠舉行演唱會，突破以往演唱會場地在既有大型場館的限制。
除個人專輯之演唱製作詞曲外，伍佰也為不少知名的華人藝人擔當唱片製作及詞曲創作，如劉德華、張學友、王菲、那英、周華健、莫文蔚、翁倩玉、徐若瑄、譚詠麟及謝霆锋等。
2000年起，伍佰初次在電影中演出，為徐克所執導的《順流逆流》。

進入歌壇
2005年4月，伍佰靦腆地召開記者會，公開證實他在2003年和經紀人女友陳文珮在日本福岡的飯店低調完成婚禮，女方大男方5歲，兩人相戀超過10年。

結婚
許多樂評批評現在的伍佰比當初水晶唱片時代少了理想性，多了商業性。但是死忠的樂迷們不以為意，他們認為這種批評從第二張專輯《浪人情歌》開始就有了，而且每出一張新專輯就會再提一次。有的樂迷更認為，他們希望有更多的人可以來欣賞伍佰的音樂，而不是空有理想，但是只有少數人欣賞。
大部分的人都認為，伍佰的現場演唱功力遠勝於錄音室所泡製出來的效果。也因此，伍佰&China Blue的每場演唱會以及Pub現場演出總是大大地爆滿，伍佰也獲得了「King of Live」的封號。
而伍佰國台語雙聲帶的演唱，以及其個人的本土風格，亦造成「台客」文化的興起。

Shuttle launch one giant leap for teacherkind

2007-08-07T18:38:00.000-07:00

When Endeavor takes off for the International Space Station Wednesday, a teacher-turned-astronaut will have made good on a decades-old dream.

By Caitlin Carpenter | Contributor to The Christian Science Monitor

from the August 8, 2007 edition

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They were called "Star Nights." Parents drove their children, bundled against the Idaho chill in scarves, mitts, and coats, to a snow-covered hill. As mothers and fathers waited, cars running and heat cranked, the children trooped up the hill alongside their teacher.

There, telescopes on loan from locals in the small town of McCall, Idaho, were pointed into the clear, cold night sky. As their teacher taught them how to peer at the rings of Saturn and moons of Jupiter, the children were mesmerized.

After a while, the parents trudged up to meet them, curious what all the fuss was about. It was a long-standing joke among the Star Night regulars that, by night's end, the parents were as eager to use the telescopes as the kids. Bert Kulesza, who attended a Star Night on the school field, was one such parent nearly 30 years ago. "With kids at that age, it's pretty easy to lose their concentration," he says. "But she had all of them looking up and enjoying the wonders of space."

The teacher he's recalling is known throughout McCall as Barb. But to the rest of the country, she's Barbara Morgan, one of seven astronauts scheduled to embark Wednesday on the Endeavor's two-week trip to the International Space Station – and the backup for Christa McAuliffe on the ill-fated 1986 NASA Challenger mission.

Barbara's mission couldn't come at a better time for NASA, which has been addled by high-profile scandals in recent years, from reports of inebriated astronauts and internal sabotage, to love triangles, to infamous problems with foam insulation. Enter Barbara, an astronaut who has dedicated much of her life to passing the dream of space travel on to the next generation – reviving the spirit of an era when families huddled around the TV to watch shuttles launch. Just as his children did two decades ago with the Challenger, Mr. Kulesza's grandchildren will gather around the television to watch Endeavor leave the planet.

Those of a certain age will always think of the Challenger on hearing of a teacher heading into space. "She very much sees herself as continuing Christa's work," her husband, Clay Morgan, says. "She's taking Christa up there in her heart."

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Clay Morgan, Barbara's husband, remembers the August night 23 years ago when Barbara decided to go into space. As they sat in their metal-roofed cabin on Idaho's Payette Lake, watching the news on their grainy, black-and-white TV, President Reagan announced NASA's Teacher in Space program. "She immediately said, 'I'm going to do it!' " Clay says. "It sounded like a huge, interesting adventure to her."

Barbara, who has been in quarantine for her mission and unable to speak with anyone, had always been an "astronomy buff"; she was from the generation that woke at 3 or 4 a.m. to watch a shuttle launch. She would have loved to be an astronaut, but the career wasn't open to women when she was young. Still, she wondered: They're sending chimpanzees into space; why not me?

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伍佰

Shuttle launch one giant leap for teacherkind

When Endeavor takes off for the International Space Station Wednesday, a teacher-turned-astronaut will have made good on a decades-old dream.