The opening is not only commercial: the metalheads Megadeth They will perform in the month of October in Beijing and Shanghai, reported the official newspaper China Daily, a few days after Bon Jovi had to cancel his concerts in those two cities by decision of the Chinese authorities. The band of metal thrash it will play on October 6 at the Mastercard Center sports hall in Beijing, and two days later it will do so at the Shanghai Grand Theater.
Bon Jovi had also booked two concerts in both cities this September, the first he was going to give in his career in China, but a few days before their scheduled celebration they were canceled by the Chinese authorities, who did not give explanations about the causes. The media speculated that Beijing did not like that the ensemble led by Jon Bon Jovi included images of the Tiananmen massacre in a 2009 music video, or that large images of the Dalai Lama, an enemy of the homeland for the communist regime, were projected. , at a band concert in 2011.
Another famous metal group, Metallica, performed in China in 2013, and its members acknowledged that before doing so they had to hand over the list of songs they were going to play to the authorities, who prohibited them from performing some of their hits as "Master Of Puppets ».
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