SHANGHAI - Bob Dylan, the minstrel of rock, will be 'on tour in China to early April. After several weeks of haggling with the authorities' Chinese after the announcements of the concert organizer in Taiwan, recently also the site of American singer-songwriter has made official the news. Dylan will play 'in Beijing on April 6 and 8 in Shanghai, which will be preceded by a concert in Taiwan on the second, another in Hong Kong on the 12th. Chinese censorship has so 'decided to give the green light to the singer, feared for his anti-war messages.
Last year, announced the popular rock star concerts were canceled at the last minute to differences among the organizers of the tour and the local ones. The Chinese government and 'extremely sensitive to performances by foreign artists in 2008 after the Icelandic singer Bjork has launched an appeal on behalf of Tibet during her concert in Shanghai. In 2009, a Oasis concert and not 'authorized' cause the lead singer Noel Gallagher has taken part in 1997 to an exhibition for the 'Free Tibet' in New York. Some songs like Dylan's 'Blowin' in the Wind 'and' The Times They Are a Changin ', linked to the civil rights movement of the sixties, could be considered politically sensitive by the authorities' Chinese.
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