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03-06-03 01:33 PM
steel driving hammer Stones Offer Satisfaction to China, at Last
Thu Mar 6, 12:17 AM ET

BEIJING (Reuters) - The Rolling Stones will play concerts in China next month for the first time in their 40-year history as part of their "Forty Licks" world tour, concert organizers said on Thursday.
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In the late 1970s, the Stones held high-level talks about touring China. But those were the days when China feared spiritual pollution from the West.

They never brought their high-energy, high-tech shows to a China just emerging from Chairman Mao Zedong's cultural revolution.

But now, the iconic British rock group, propelled to international stardom by hits such as "As Tears Go By" and "Satisfaction," will play Shanghai on April 1, organizers told a news conference.

They will perform in Beijing on April 4, said Chen Jixing, head of Beijing Time New Century Entertainment Co Ltd.

The Stones are making a swing through Asia. Concert venues include Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand and India.

"I think it will be 100 percent sold out," said Chen, whose firm was behind the Three Tenors concert at Beijing's Forbidden City in 2001.

Aging idol Mick Jagger, guitarists Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood and drummer Charlie Watts will arrive by private plane and will be joined on stage by homegrown rocker Cui Jian, often called the father of Chinese rock.

Cui shot to fame in 1989 when his song, "Nothing to My Name," became an anthem for students during the Tiananmen Square demonstrations which ended in the June 4 massacre in which hundreds, possibly thousands, of people were killed.

Banned from playing approved concerts in Beijing, opening for the Stones would be Cui's first stadium performance since 1991.

The Stones are set to hold their Beijing debut at the 7,000 to 10,000-capacity Workers Stadium, with tickets costing between 280 yuan ($33.83) and 3,000 yuan.







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