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BOB DYLAN China: Uncertainty over ban of concerts with American folk singer Bob Dylan The Chinese government allegedly refused to allow the 68-year-old American folk singer Bob Dylan to perform in Beijing and Shanghai because of his reputation as a protestsinger 07 April 2010 China: American folk singer agreed to Chinese censorship The 69-year-old American folk singer Bob Dylan - famous for his songs against injustice and for civil rights - agreed to perform in China only with a heavily censored list of songs 11 April 2011 1960s Freemusepedia timeline: North America: 1960-1969 USA: Johnny Cash, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Frank Zappa, Bob Dylan, John Lennon & Yoko Ono 01 January 2001 US school talent show draws Secret Service The band, named Coalition of the Willing, was to perform Bob Dylan's song "Masters of War" – but some students and adults who heard the band rehearse called a radio talk show Thursday morning, saying the song the band sang ended with a call for President Bush to die. So the Secret Service was called 12 November 2004 Kina: Amerikansk protestsanger accepterede kinesisk censur Den 69-årige amerikanske sanger Bob Dylan blev tvunget af de kinesiske myndigheder til at droppe sine protestsange for at få tilladelse til at optræde i Beijing 11 April 2011 Egypt: Musician in the firing line of the Arab Spring The events on Tahrir Square gave singer Ramy Essam the reputation as one of North Africa’s new musical revolution heroes, proclaimed to be ‘Egypt’s Bob Dylan’. 06 April 2011