Tiananmen rocker Cui Jian not to play Lunar New Year gala

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Tiananmen rocker Cui Jian not to play Lunar New Year gala

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/tiananmen-rocker-cui-jian-not-play-lunar-gala-044151204.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/yg0hP4izGqNx_gizpMbcyA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/b687a9f74000390be73245adbe700cf3635851f4.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="Chinese rocker Cui Jian, who inspired the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy movement, will not perform on state television's annual new year gala, his manager said Saturday, following a surprise invitation to appear" align="left" title="Chinese rocker Cui Jian, who inspired the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy movement, will not perform on state television's annual new year gala, his manager said Saturday, following a surprise invitation to appear" border="0" /></a>Chinese rocker Cui Jian, who inspired the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy movement, will not perform on state television's annual new year gala, his manager said Saturday, following a surprise invitation to appear. &quot;Cui Jian will not perform at the Spring Festival Gala,&quot; You You told AFP. The announcement in early January that Cui had been invited to perform on CCTV's annual Spring Festival Gala was greeted with surprise due to the singer's links to the pro-democracy protests. Cui, dubbed the &quot;father of rock&quot; in China, began recording in the 1980s and his song &quot;Nothing to My Name&quot; became an unofficial anthem for the student protesters in Tiananmen Square in 1989.</p><br clear="all"/>

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