Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Dylan debuts in China for 69 years but his most famous songs of protest

Beijing, April 6 (EFE) .- had to wait 50-year career, but Bob Dylan was able to finally sing today in Communist China, with nearly 70 years standing, and without singing his most famous political anthem, "The Times Are A-Changing "and" Blowing in the wind ", something that Beijing publicly downplayed and responded with applause.

Some 10,000 people, about 90 percent of capacity, attended the historic concert at the Peking Workers' Gymnasium, who lived not much animation from staying at the 2008 Olympic Games boxing tests, which vibrated when the Minnesota sang one of his most popular songs, "Like a rolling stone." The audience, mostly very young and there was great representation of the expatriate community is also excited about another of his classic, "A hard rain's a-going to fall", but was a bit cold at the start of the concert when Dylan showed some of his most recent.

Dylan, who on April 11 will celebrate 50 years on stage, preferred in much of the concert outside the center of the stage to his bandmates, playing the keyboard almost always on the side, although a couple of times he hung guitar and, of course, he picked up his iconic harmonica, which rang got the biggest cheers of the audience.

At the end of the concert, unlike his previous performance, in Taipei, the capital of the island of Taiwan, "Dylan did not recite his ode against the war" Blowing in the Wind ", and chose a song without political ramifications but which expressed willingness to continue in the gap many years: "Forever Young."

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