THE EARLY DAYS: The sugary sounds of a new breed of singers from Taiwan take Hong Kong by storm. Among them is Yau Nga, who drips with alluring sentimentality in love songs like "Raindrop Tears" and "Where Do the Winds Come From?" Hong Kong's own pop stars begin to make names for themselves, too, often through TV appearances on Enjoy Yourself Tonight, a popular weekly variety show. One of the local lights is Lisa Wang, a versatile singer, dancer and actress who later was selected by China as a Hong Kong representative to the National People's Congress. More and more, Chinese music dominates the colony's pop scene: when the Beatles perform at Prince's Theater in July 1964, the show doesn't even sell out.

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