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The Peking All-Stars were a rock band formed in Beijing in 1979 by a number of foreigners then resident in the Chinese capital, and was the first rock group in China. The band was formed by Graham Earnshaw, on guitar and vocals, Chris, a Brazilian drummer, and Richard Thwaites, an Australian bass player who doubled as the China correspondent of the Australian Broadcasting Commission. It played the first rock concert in China at a university campus hall in Beijing in late summer of 1979, a performance that is commemorated by a photograph in the book ''China After Mao'' by Liu Heung Shing. The band dominated the Beijing music scene in the very early 1980s as there were no other bands playing western rock music in the city at all. ==Members== The lineup changed regularly over the years, but members included: * Guitarist and singer Graham Earnshaw, the band's founder, who went on to claim to be the first person ever to play the kazoo on the Great Wall of China. * Guitarist Michael Schoenhals, later to leverage his collection of Chairman Mao buttons into a position as Scandinavian expert on China's Cultural Revolution. * Palestinian lead guitarist Nassir, who took a sabbatical from the band in mid-1983 to drive tanks against Israel in southern Lebanon, and committed suicide in around 1991. * American guitarist Tad Stoner, who later became a journalist and bar owner in Hong Kong and is now a journalist in the Cayman Islands. * American bass player Fred Burke, who went on to become a prominent corporate lawyer in Vietnam. * American guitarist Larry Vest. * Swedish sax player Frédéric Cho, who went on to become one of Scandinavia's top China financial experts and Asian Manager at HQ Bank.〔http://www.establishingabroad.com/Bazment/1012.aspx 〕 * Madagascan drummer Robinson, who went on to found his own band named Nogabe that is currently based in London. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Peking All-Stars」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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