On May 13, Bob Dylan wrote to fans on his website about his April gig in Beijing: "If anybody wants to check with any of the concert-goers they will see that it was mostly young Chinese people that came."
Four music festivals and a marathon concert made this year's May Day holiday the busiest ever for Beijing's pop and rock fans. Each of the events featured dozens of acts and drew thousands of people.
When I started organizing rock concerts in Beijing in the late 1980s, the main protagonists of the city's rock scene, including their equipment, could be easily packed onto one bus.
1984-85: Mainland singers release cassettes of cover songs from Taiwan, Hong Kong and Western countries.