我高中同學 孫大偉

前一陣子從報紙上看到孫大偉心臟病發住院的消息，心想人邁入中年後工作之外也要注意身体保養，直到最近他去世後，陸續看到更多的媒体報導，心想他是不是我的同學呀？因為先發現介紹他的書『該生素質太差：孫大偉的成績單』有講到是他羅東高中的英文老師當年給他的評語，後來又看到他出生屏東的資料，我才確定他就是我的高中同學，而且倆人生日只差五天，都是射手座。高中畢業之後各人走不同的路，雖然我也先在廣告圈工作過，才轉節目製作、有線電視…，但因他退伍後才讀大學，出社會較晚，倆人從沒碰到過，沒想到他走了才想起，人生真是奇妙。
根據報載資料孫大偉在羅東高中寄讀很短一段時間，太久了，真的想不起來他是那年、那學期和我們同學過？但還清楚記得他能說善道，他可以把在屏東眷村和學校的事講得精彩絕倫，後來他能在廣告界佔有一席之地，我回憶起來也不意外了。
我們高中三年有三位英文老師，包括一位女老師，二位男老師，年紀較大的男老師還兼導師，年輕一些的就是我九月26日介紹電影「吾愛吾師」插曲To Sir With Love的時候提到的那位林老師Paul Lin，不曉得是那位老師給他該生素質太差的評語？不過那都不重要了，因為孫大偉後來在人生的旅程上所呈現出的成績證明他的素質不差，只是高中時期還沒想通而已。
講死亡的搖滾樂最經典的是Blood Sweat And Tears所唱的And When I Die，這首歌說：「雖然我走了，但會有一個小孩再生，在這個世上繼續我的…」，Blood Sweat And Tears是由Al Kooper所領銜組團的著名爵士搖滾樂團，在1960年代後期到1970年代中期與Chicago合唱團齊名，但他們的歌更有爵士味，在排行榜的成就自然與Chicago比較商業的走向無法相比，And When I Die是Blood Sweat And Tears在1969年曾獲得第二名的歌，就以此曲送給廣告才子---我高中同學孫大偉！這也正是我們在羅東高中同學時期流行的西洋歌曲。

And When I Die

I'm not scared of dying,
And I don't really care.
If it's peace you find in dying,
Well then let the time be near.
If it's peace you find in dying,
And if dying time is here,
Just bundle up my coffin'
Cause it's cold way down there.
I hear that its cold way down their.
Yeah, crazy cold way down their.

Chorus:
And when I die, and when I'm gone,
There'll be one child born
In this world to carry on,
to carry on.

Now troubles are many, they're as deep as a well.
I can swear there ain't no heaven but I pray there ain't no hell.
Swear there ain't no heaven and I pray there ain't no hell,
But I'll never know by living, only my dying will tell.
Yes only my dying will tell.
Yeah, only my dying will tell.

Chorus

Give me my freedom for as long as I be.
All I ask of living is to have no chains on me.
All I ask of living is to have no chains on me,
And all I ask of dying is to go naturally.
Oh I want to go naturally.

Here I go,
Hey Hey!
Here comes the devil,
Right Behind.
Look out children,
Here he comes!
Here he comes! Hey...

Don't want to go by the devil.
Don't want to go by demon.
Don't want to go by Satan,
Don't want to die uneasy.
Just let me go naturally.

and when I die,
When I'm dead, dead and gone,
There'll be one child born in our world to carry on,
To carry on.
Yeah, yeah...