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Mick Jagger, lead singer of the Rolling Stones, performs in the 8,000-seat Shanghai Grand Stage in Shanghai, China, Saturday April 8, 2006

Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones performs during a concert in Shanghai, China, April 8, 2006.

Ron Wood of the Rolling Stones performs during a concert in Shanghai, China, April 8, 2006.

Rolling Stones lead singer Mick Jagger, left, performs with Cui Jian, China's best known rocker, in the 8,000-seat Shanghai Grand Stage in Shanghai, China, Saturday April 8, 2006. Cui, whose songs were anthems for student protesters in Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 1989, described the show as a 'milestone' for him and for all rock fans in China.

Ronnie Wood, of the Rolling Stones, performs in the 8,000-seat Shanghai Grand Stage in Shanghai, China, Saturday April 8, 2006.

Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones performs in the 8,000-seat Shanghai Grand Stage in Shanghai, China, Saturday April 8, 2006.

Stones Play to Packed House in China

SHANGHAI, China - The Rolling Stones opened their first-ever concert in mainland China on Saturday with "Start Me Up," a song with suggestive lyrics that apparently made it past the censors who banned five other songs.

The so-called "world's greatest rock 'n' roll band" played to a packed house at Shanghai's 8,000-seat Grand Stage indoor stadium, where the audience was overwhelmingly foreign. Demand for tickets had driven up prices on the black market to $624.

Chinese rock pioneer Cui Jian, who was to perform a duet with Mick Jagger, said before the concert that the show was a "milestone" for him and all rock fans in China.

"It is a big moment. I will never forget this," said Cui, whose songs were anthems for student protesters in Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 1989.

In a reminder of the communist government's cautious attitude toward Western pop culture, the Stones were told not to perform five songs — "Brown Sugar," "Honky Tonk Women," "Beast of Burden," "Let's Spend the Night Together" and "Rough Justice" — because of suggestive lyrics.

However, "Start Me Up," which also has suggestive lyrics, was not on the list.

At a news conference on Friday, Jagger said he was not surprised by the demand, and added sarcastically: "I'm pleased that the Ministry of Culture is protecting the morals of the expat bankers and their girlfriends that are going to be coming."

He said a planned nationwide broadcast of the concert by China Central Television — a first for a Western rock show — would help expose people to his music.

"I know what rock 'n' roll is, but I've never heard of them," said a shopkeeper at a clothing stall in the city's downtown Xiangyang Market, who would only give her surname, Liu.

The band had better name recognition among younger Shanghainese, although many said the band was a little "old" for them — a reminder that Jagger, at age 62, is just one year younger than Chinese president and Communist Party leader Hu Jintao.

"We like rock music and pop like the Backstreet Boys, Mariah Carey and also Jay Chou and Rain, too," said Jamie Liao, a 17-year-old with spiked hair wearing fashionably low-cut jeans and Converse sneakers.

Chou, a Taiwanese rapper, and Korean singer Rain are among the biggest foreign stars in China.

"The Rolling Stones — they're more from the early stage," Liao said.

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Rolling Stones push boundaries in China debut

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - The Rolling Stones rode roughshod over China's censors during their first show in the communist country on Saturday, serenading a largely foreign crowd with songs about Satan, sleaze bags and serial killers.

Much was made before their Shanghai show of a ban on playing five songs, including concert standards "Honky Tonk Women," and "Brown Sugar." But they managed to toss a few risque tunes into their two-hour set at the Shanghai Grand Stage.

"It's nice to be here, the first time we've played in China," Mick Jagger told the boisterous 8,000-strong crowd, as the Stones made their China debut after two failed attempts dating as far back as 1980. "It's fantastic," he said.

The group focused on its greatest hits as it raced through 18 songs spanning its 44-year career.

Highlights included "Oh No, Not You Again," a new song in which Jagger boasts of staring at a woman's cleavage; and odes to the Boston Strangler and the Satan in the concert classics "Midnight Rambler" and "Sympathy for the Devil," respectively.

Jagger also practiced his Chinese on the crowd, welcoming and thanking everyone for coming, although a large number of the crowd were expatriates.

The lone musical nod to their host country came during a rendition of "Wild Horses," in which China rock legend Cui Jian sang with Jagger and later promised the audience the group would return to China.

The Stones had hoped to play in China in 2003 but canceled due to the deadly SARS outbreak that killed hundreds. A first attempt around 1980 reportedly got nowhere after a meeting between Jagger and Chinese officials in Washington went badly.

The China the Stones are visiting is a far cry from the socialist country they would have seen in 1980, or even just three years ago, packed with skyscrapers and luxury shops, testament to the nation's rapid embrace of capitalism.

Despite advances in local pop culture, however, the band's edgier music, with its racy lyrics, is a far cry from the syrupy ballads that now rule the Chinese airwaves.

The Shanghai date was part of the group's "A Bigger Bang" world tour, in support of its album of the same name.

But a Chinese version of the album being sold at the show was mysteriously lacking several songs, just as the band's 2002 hits compilation "Forty Licks" contained only 36 tracks after China censors excised songs thought too rough for local ears.

Tickets for the group's maiden China show cost from 300 yuan ($37) all the way up to 3,000 yuan, on a par with American prices.

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2Primal Scream:

>Что-то китайцев не очень-то видно

Зато на одной картине на сцену залез какой то китайский перец диссидент, типа нашего Цоя, это на "Wild Horses" пишут
Chiu Jian или Cui Jian - как это читается Куи Джан или Чиу Джан? не в курсе?

2Alex GB:

См. фото на предыдущей. Цуй Дзян, может?

2Primal Scream:

>2Alex GB:
>См. фото на предыдущей. Цуй Дзян, может?

Цуй Дзян вроде более по китайски звучит.
Фото видел.
А говоришь китайцев мало, мне кажется на сцене и одного чересчур
Или например вышли бы с какими нибудь китайскими народными инструментами на Sympathy for the Devil например

2Alex GB:

Это же китайский пионер рока. Вроде наших АМ или БГ. Его песни были гимнами молодежи на площади Тяньанмень!

2Primal Scream:

>2Alex GB:
>Это же китайский пионер рока. Вроде наших АМ
>или БГ. Его песни были гимнами молодежи на площади Тяньанмень!

А мне почему-то больше Цоя напоминает

2Alex GB:

>А мне почему-то больше Цоя напоминает

Тож подойдет.

2Primal Scream:

>2Alex GB:
>См. фото на предыдущей. Цуй Дзян, может?

Наиболее употребимо в рунете Цуй Цзянь, так в новостях и напишу

2Alex GB:

>2Primal Scream:
>>2Alex GB:
>>См. фото на предыдущей. Цуй Дзян, может?
>Наиболее употребимо в рунете Цуй Цзянь, так в
>новостях и напишу
"Звезда по имени Цуйце"

Вообще, китайская цензура, судя по сет-листу, не все догнала.

2Primal Scream:

>Вообще, китайская цензура, судя по сет-листу,
>не все догнала.

Похоже, для них вообще важнее было сделать вид….
А выступление с китайским рокером интересно послушать, поглядеть.

Я смотрю на несколько тысяч зрителей пришлось еще прилично европейцев, так что развращающие влияние было минимально, зато видимость демократичности соблюдена, знакомо.

2Primal Scream:

>Вообще, китайская цензура, судя по сет-листу,
>не все догнала.

да фсё она догнала, но кто этих стар-пердуноф остановить, ежели запустили? Невер стап-невер стап...