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My most desired way of dying is to die on the stage instead of on the bed or sofa at home. For a musician, as stage is just his battlefield, the best ending is to die on the battlefield. By this time when China’s pop music recedes to its low ebb, our rock has experienced 20 years. In retrospection, it seemed that we had rock music during one night, and that during that night we had all kinds of rock music. But It’s really a pity that China’s pop music voiced revolutionarily only once for the past 20 years. We have been missing the night of 1986 at Workers' Stadium, when the young man in long robe with his guitar sang highly his Nothing to My Name who later became Godfather of Chinese Rock and Roll.At his forties, Cui Jian, the founder of Chinese Rock and Roll, is scampering on the new Long March of Chinese Rock and Roll with surprising vigor, by launching the movement of Real Singing in the new century. Cui Jian seems to be a genius specially born for Chinese Rock and Roll, whose Nothing to My Name, a revolutionary milestone in Chinese musical history, in 1986 announced the birth of Chinese Rock and Roll, and illustrated the mental change of Chinese youth in the opening era. Properly applying Chinese rock way of expression, Cui Jian’s rock indicates the subconscious feeling of the younger in the 1980. He touches this generation by rock, which is becoming increasingly self-evident as time goes by. In some term, Cui Jian’s rock summarizes the two decades. Cui Jian was born in a Korean family and both his parents are insiders of arts. He began to learn playing the trumpet from his father at 14. In 1981, his career of music started when he was enrolled as a trumpet player by Beijing Symphony Orchestra. During the six years in the orchestra, Cui Jian began composing songs. With another six members, he established Seven-Player Band, one of the earliest band of this kind in China. In 1986, Cui Jian composed the first rock song Not Because I Don’t Understand. In 1986, in the 100-Singer Concert of Year of International Peace, the audience was all confused when Cui Jian jumped on the stage of Beijing Worker’s Stadium, in a long mandarin gown, with a broken guitar on the back. Silence fell when the music began and Cui Jian was singing I used to keep asking/when you’re going after me. Ten minutes later the song ended. In the melting cheering and applauds, born was the first Chinese rock star!
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