Red Rock : The Bonus Tracks. After him came a sax-synching Charlie-Chaplin guy, and then, our rock-blues combo. Step One: Learn from the Visitors.
Either the protests were over cafeteria food or calisthenics or else they were demands for redress after police malfeasance, or calls for democracy. What we know is that kids danced to Jan and Dean, and they were beaten for it. In Elizabeth J. In that post, he refers to an article that no longer exists in cyberspace, which is too bad, because I had also come across the link and found it useful.
In short: There were student protests in Shanghai. There were beatings at the Jan and Dean show. Students were upset at the beatings. My notes tell me that Jan and Dean brought forty people and two hundred and twenty thousand pounds of equipment and that the whole thing cost upwards of half a million dollars.
I can only assume this information came via the now-defunct link above. Like Jean-Michel Jarre, Irish folk act the Chieftains collaborated with local musicians when they toured in Suddenly: Nothing, Again. Long after deadlines passed, I came across the news that, in the fall of a band named SheRock performed in Shanghai, Hangzhou and Guangzhou.
Word was they performed sixteen shows for somewhere in the neighbourhood of , people. I wrote about the group, and other contemporaneous visitors, on the blog At left is the cover of their tour flyer. In his memoir of the Wham! Napier-Bell produced promotional brochures for both bands: the clean-cut take-home-to-mom-able Wham!
