Bob Dylan performed his first-ever concert in China yesterday at the Worker's Gymnasium in Beijing. According to Billboard, the appearance was met with a actual agog acknowledgment by a 5,000 affiliate admirers that was mainly comprised of adolescent humans from China and foreigners from abroad.
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Dylan played a two-hour set of songs that had been vetted by China's Culture Ministry to abstain lyrics that would affront the political sensitivities of the Chinese government and its people. As expected, Dylan's aboriginal beef songs were not included in the show, but the set did affection performances of abounding of his a lot of acclaimed compositions, such as "Like a Rolling Stone," "All Along the Watchtower," "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" and "Ballad of a Thin Man."
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Dylan had originally planned to play a concert in China endure year, but that fell apart as a aftereffect of complications with the Culture Ministry and a appear banking altercation with a Taiwanese promoter. Endure night's gig in Beijing is allotment of a beyond Asian bout that aswell includes stops in Vietnam, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore.
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Here is Bob Dylan's Chinese government-approved setlist from endure night in Beijing, address of the Dylan fan website Bob Links:
Gonna Change My Way of Thinking
It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
Beyond Here Lies Nothin'
Tangled Up in Blue
Honest With Me
Simple Twist of Fate
Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum
Love Sick
Rollin' and Tumblin'
A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
Highway 61 Revisited
Spirit on the Water
Thunder on the Mountain
Ballad of a Thin Man
Like a Rolling Stone
All Along the Watchtower
Forever Young
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