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Topic: STONES PLAN FIRST CONCERT IN CHINA (Take 2 ;) ) Return to archive
09-05-03 08:48 PM
Gazza STONES PLAN FIRST CONCERT IN CHINA

Friday 5 September 2003 9:58pm

The Rolling Stones are planning to play their first concert in China in November after cancelling shows earlier this year because of the Sars outbreak.

The band is scheduled to play in Beijing on November 14 at the 17,000-seat Capital Gymnasium, said Chen Jixin, of the Beijing Time New Century Entertainment Co.

The Stones may also play shows in Hong Kong and Shanghai, though dates have not been confirmed, Chen said. She had no details on ticket prices and opening acts.

The concerts would be part of the band's 40th anniversary "Forty Licks" tour.

China was on the verge of the radical 1966-76 Cultural Revolution - which reviled Western pop music as spiritual pollution - when the Stones began their rise to fame.

Their music first became available in China only after the start of economic and social reforms in the late 1970s.

The Stones had been scheduled to play in Beijing and Shanghai in April but cancelled because of the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome. The disease killed 349 people on the mainland, infected more than 5,300 and prompted the cancellation of a series of public events before retreating in June.

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