Shanghai Saturdays

For the first time, the grandfathers of Rock'N Roll tuned up, lit up, and turned it up in the Central Kingdom. From the reports I read, this concert was a pretty big deal for China and the City of Shanghai, which is known throughout Asia to be the most progressive city in the country. Shanghai has a booming indepent rock music scene that combines Chinese and European musicians, most of whom were probably very encouraged by the CCP's decision to allow the Stones to play.

But I'm thinking that the Chinese government didn't want us Westerns to forget that they are big fans of the old Ed Sullivan Show, so they banned four Stones songs for there suggestive lyrics: Brown Sugar, Beast of Burden, Honkey Talk Woman, and Let's Spend the Night Together.

I read a report that tickets for the concert were scalping for over $600 USD.

I think it's great that government allowed the Stones to play...anything that can build cultural similarity between the West and the East is probably good.