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Katy Perry has been honoured by being banned from performing in China again
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| See article from freemuse.org |
US singer Katy Perry has become the latest artist to be banned from China. The indefinite ban is apparently due to her wearing a sunflower dress at her 2015 concert in Taiwan capital Taipei. The sunflower has become a symbol of the anti-China movement
in Taiwan. At the same concert, the singer also draped a Taiwan flag on herself. The singer wore the same dress when performing a little later in Shanghai and so has ended up on China's never again list. |
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Metallica censored in China
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February 2017
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Heavy metal band Metallica's concerts in Beijing, Hong Kong and Shanghai had certain songs removed from their setlists due to China's censorship policies, reported the South China Morning Post. Metallica frontman James Hetfield told the newspaper:
Why shouldn't you respect their culture when you're there as a guest and you've been invited to play? We want to be respectful, and just because we do things differently, it doesn't mean it should be forced upon
[others]. But hopefully we'll keep coming back and they'll realise we're not a threat politically and we have no agenda except to cross boundaries with music and let people enjoy the songs. We're not trying to bring a secret message to anybody.
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Lady Gaga banned from China for getting pally with the Dalai Lama
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| 29th June 2016
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American singer Lady Gaga has once again joined the ranks of musicians and artists banned in China. Previously she was banned for being raunchy, but this time it was for meeting the Dalai Lama. So Lady Gaga is no longer allowed on television,
radio or available for online downloads in China (at least on officially sanctioned media), says China's State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television. The ban came after she had met with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader to
discuss the power of kindness and how to make the world a more compassionate place.
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Selena Gomez banned from performing in China
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23rd April 2016
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| See article from shanghaiist.com |
Pop star Selena Gomez has quietly canceled her August tour dates in Guangzhou and Shanghai, it is reported that she was forced to do so by the Chinese government. The ban its not related to the content of the music, but is due to pictures posted
on the internet showing Gomez with the Dalai Llama. The picture appears to be from two years, when both Gomez and the Tibetan spiritual leader were in Vancouver to host We Day, a youth empowerment project that takes place in cities around the US
and Canada. According to a Daily Mail report , the singer captioned the pic: words of wisdom. #speechless. |
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Chinese censors end Megadeath gig an hour into the performance
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12th October 2015
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During their show in Beijing on October 6th, Megadeth was abruptly canceled only an hour into their performance by Chinese Censors. After finishing Peace Sells... But Who's Buying? Dave Mustane politely waved and thanked the
audience for attending the show, Thank you for leaving so that we can come back and play again. Mustaine commented later in the tour about the Beijing gig: Show before last was a little interesting because of
the lyric content. We had to play some songs instrumentally and some songs we just had to plain avoid. But in the end love of music always conquers love of power.
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Bon Jovi added to the long list of performers banned from China
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28th September 2015
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Two concerts in China by rock group Bon Jovi have been cancelled after reports the government discovered they featured images of the Dalai Lama in previous shows. The American band had been due to play dates in Beijing and Shanghai but the
performances were suddenly called off and ticket sales abruptly halted. According to sources, the Chinese regime had banned the concerts after discovering a picture of exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, a man reviled by China, had featured in a
video shown at a previous concerts. Meanwhile they also allegedly found that Bon Jovi's 2009 We Weren't Born To Follow music video features brief images of the 1989 pro-democracy demonstrations around Beijing's Tiananmen Square.
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China bans the Rolling Stones from singing Honky Tonk Women
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| 14th March 2014
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The lyrics for Honky Tonk Women were apparently too much for Chinese censors after the song was vetoed from the Rolling Stones' second ever show in the country. Mick Jagger said, according to a posting on the band's official Twitter feed:
About now we'd usually play something like Honky Tonk Women ... but it's been vetoed, f
He did not give a reason. Concert-goers confirmed Jagger's comments at the packed show. The song
describes a bar-room queen who tried to take me upstairs for a ride. |
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Cradle of Filth banned from mainland China
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| 27th February 2013
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The heavy metal band, Cradle of Filth , has cancelled an upcoming gig in Shanghai after learning that the band has been banned from mainland China. A statement from the group reads: Unfortunately, at this
time, the cultural section of the Chinese government have decided that Cradle of Filth are unsuitable to play in mainland China and so we are currently banned from playing there. Therefore, the show on Tuesday 30 April in Shanghai
has had to be moved to Hong Kong. The new venue is Kowloonbay International Trade & Exhibition Centre (Kitec) in Hong Kong on April 30th.
No official reason was given for the ban.
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| Bob Dylan denies that his Chinese gigs were censored
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Singer Bob Dylan has denied accusations that he had bowed to censorship during his first concerts in China last month. Dylan was criticised by Western media and by Human Rights Watch for not performing some of his best-known protest songs on his
China tour in April. In a rare online posting, Dylan said Chinese authorities asked for the names of the songs he would play in their country. Dylan said he sent Chinese officials his set lists from the previous three months of shows. He
performed in Beijing on 6 April and Shanghai two days later. If there were any songs, verses or lines censored, nobody ever told me about it and we played all the songs that we intended to play, Dylan wrote in the post. Media
commentators cited the absence of songs The Times They Are A-Changin' and Blowin' in the Wind from Dylan's China set list as evidence that the counter- culture hero had caved to pressure. In March, China's Culture Ministry said in a
brief statement that an agreement to have Dylan sing in the country came with the proviso that he perform the approved content .
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| China bans Bob Dylan concerts
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Based on article from
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The Chinese Ministry of Culture has refused permission for Bob Dylan to play his scheduled dates in Shanghai and Beijing this month, the Guardian reports. This has led to the cancelling of shows in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and South Korea. According to promoter Jeffrey Wu, Chinese
officials have become more cautious since Bjork, the Icelandic singer, chanted 'Tibet! Tibet!' after performing a song called Declare Independence in Shanghai in 2008. Jeffrey Wu, of Taiwanese promoters Brokers Brothers Herald, said
that What Bjork did definitely made life very difficult for other performers. They are very wary of what will be said by performers on stage now.
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| Ofcom fines BBC £150,000 over Russell Brand Show
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Ofcom have fined the BBC £150,000 over the Sachsgate row, describing the Radio 2 broadcast of messages left by Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand on actor Andrew Sachs's voicemail as gratuitously offensive, humiliating and demeaning.
The TV censor said the scale of the fine reflected the extraordinary nature and seriousness of the BBC's failures and the resulting breaches of the broadcasting code.
Ofcom said the corporation had broadcast explicit, intimate and
confidential information about Sachs's granddaughter, Georgina Baillie, without her consent in Brand's Radio 2 programmes that aired on 18 October and 25 October last year.
This not only unwarrantably and seriously infringed their privacy
but was also gratuitously offensive, humiliating and demeaning, Ofcom said.
The media regulator said it had imposed a fine of £70,000 for breaches of the broadcasting code on standards and over the Radio 2 broadcast of offensive
material, and a further £80,000 for the unwarranted infringement of Sachs's and Baillie's privacy.
Ofcom said that despite the BBC considering Brand's show to be high risk , it had ceded responsibility for some of management of the
programme to people working for the comedian. The presenter's interests had been given greater priority than the BBC's responsibility to avoid unwarranted infringements of privacy and minimise the risk of harm and offence and to maintain generally
accepted standards, the Ofcom report said.
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