This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.
Artist News
Dylan’s Chinese dates devoid of politics
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 8 April 2011
Bob Dylan has agreed not to play some of his best known songs on his current Chinese tour. The Cultural Ministry of China only agreed to his performances in the country if they could vet his set list, and as a result, protest songs like ‘The Times They Are A Changin’ and ‘Blowin In The Wind’ have been excised. A previous tour, planned for 2010, was vetoed by the Ministry, because they had no control over what might be played.
Dylan isn’t the first artist to have to agree to certain limits in order to perform in China, of course. Having accepted the changes the shows have gone ahead and, according to reports, he got a standing ovation at his first gig, at the Worker’s Gymnasium in Beijing.
