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Article: For China's biggest rock star, music is not a simple thing: Cui Jian
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- September 6, 1994
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Jeff J. Lin
International Examiner
09-06-1994
For China's biggest rock star, music is not a simple thing: Cui Jian will. give his premiere United States performance at Bumbershoot
Cui Jian doesn't like talking about politics.
But when you're a musician in the People's Republic of China and your business is rock-and roll, the questions inevitably surface, again and again.
"Western reporters are always asking about my lyrics and politics," Jian said through a translator in a telephone interview from Beijing. "But the music is the most important thing. They never listen to the music. The words follow the music."
Jian, who will make his U.S. premiere with a seven-piece band Sept. 5 at Bumbershoot, ...