Up to 400 dollar cost's - for most of Shanghai's inhabitants more than a monthly salary. Other sources even speak of black - market prices up to 600 dollar.

The concert started - delay, delay - with ..."Start me up". The mingle in of the "Chinese answer to Bob Dylan", the musician Cui Jian tried to turn up the head a little bit. Cui Jian and Mick Jagger sang in duet. Cuis songs were popular during the student protests, that were knocked down by the Chinese military in the massacre on the place of the heavenly peace in 1989.

Among the spectators were mainly foreigners and notably few Chinese. " Everything was very disciplined", a concert-goer said. Some others felt that the British rock oldies were very low scale. The concert was up only for 90 minutes plus three additions, including "Satisfaction."

The Stones tried since the seventies to get a permission to perform in China but for the communists, rock music is "mental contamination" , so all requests were dismissed.

The Stones cancelled some songs, like "Honky Tonk Woman", "Brown Sugar", "Beast of Burden" and "Let's Spend of the Night Together."

It seems that they also had to give way to the censor to waive "Rough justice"  from "Bigger Bang", that's the theme of the tour.

Mick Jagger tried to put the restrictions into context he mentioned: "I am happy that the culture ministry guards the morals of the foreign visitors who come to our concert."