“I had never seen so much police seen,” said Mao Danqing, now a well-known writer in China, which was the legendary concert attended. No one dared to move or make noise.
China allowed western music, and film in the eighties, but in dribs and drabs. But after the concert, everyone knew the songs of Wham!, even people who later very other music went, said Kaiser Kuo, frontman of the eighties popular Chinese metal band Tang Dynasty. “That action marked the beginning of China’s once learned (for western music),” said another user on Chinese social media. “He (George Michael) changed China.”
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