【禁闻】“一无所有”崔健不上春晚

2014年01月18日社会
【新唐人2014年01月18日讯】中国“摇滚教父”崔健,日前传出将登上《央视》马年的“春晚”。而崔健的经纪人周二回函本台记者表示,崔健“确实接到了春晚组的邀请,但是崔健先生最终不会去参加表演。”被中共“禁唱”多年后“松绑”的崔健,为甚么拒绝登上这个年度大型娱乐节目呢﹖请看报导。

1986年5月,因一首《一无所有》一炮而红的崔健,在“八九民运”那年的5月,携带乐队,在天安门广场演唱,慰问当时为争取中国民主而绝食静坐的学生。

天安门“六四大屠杀”后,崔健的专辑出版和商业演出总不顺利。1990年,崔健在亚运会的义演中,特别演唱了一首原本为纪念“中越战争”而创作的《最后一枪》。他在歌声结束后说,“我们希望去年听到的枪声,是最后一枪。”

“一颗流弹打中我胸膛,刹那间往事涌在我心上,只有泪水没有悲伤,如果这是最后的一枪,我愿接受这莫大的荣光。”

像征反叛与批判精神的中国“摇滚教父”崔健,多年来,无法在官方场合登台,只能在酒吧等场所演唱。一直保持低调的他,日前传出将登上《央视》春晚,而引发关注。不过,崔健的经纪人尤尤稍早前已向《新唐人》透露,崔健不会参加“春晚”演出。

尤尤在电邮中答复《新唐人》记者的采访邀约,她表示:“目前崔健先生忙于他首部电影《蓝色骨头》的后期工作。无时间面对面接受您的访问。崔健先生确实接到了春晚组的邀请,但是崔健先生最终不会去参加表演。”

崔健经纪人尤尤:“因为我们接到通知,那个节目没有通过审查。”

《新唐人》记者:“他本来是要唱甚么歌曲的?”

尤尤:“一无所有。”

记者:“他说哪方面没有通过审查?”

尤尤:“不清楚。我们就接到通知,所以我们就不去了。其实这个事很简单,没有必要这么多人关注。我觉得,一个春晚能够代表甚么?崔健他有很多广大歌迷在全世界范围之内。作为杰出的音乐人,音乐对他来说是最重要的。”

按照惯例,“春晚”各类节目,必须接受4到6次的审查,但细节不公开。

大陆诗人、异议人士王藏:“从当局的角度来说,他们是要把这些反叛的思想界的人,都拢络到自己的旗下来,我们看到,这么多年以来,很多人已经被收买了----打点擦边球、小骂大帮忙。他们一直以来都是这么做的。崔健,他们想邀请他也是想拢络他,只要他上了这春晚,那崔健以前的所有那些东西----正面的价值,基本上就被销毁掉了。”

今年《央视》春晚颠覆往常,解禁崔健,原广州“中山大学”教授,独立制片人艾晓明表示,可能《央视》想展现另一种开放的态度。但是,审查制度却无法开放。

原广州“中山大学”教授,独立制片人艾晓明:“我觉得审查制度当然是必须废除,但是问题是,在一党专制情况下,它是废除不了的。那废除不了的情况下,你是接受审查还是不接受﹖你是不断的去争取言论和表达的自由﹖还是改变自己来顺应从而来得到表达的机会﹖这个对于个人来讲,他是可以选择的。”

而大陆诗人,异议人士王藏认为,崔健上台表演了,也不能够说明中共当局就宽松了。他说,中共本身没有合法性,中国人现在都清楚了,所谓审查,就是洗脑。而官方的所有动作,都是表演----维稳的表演。

王藏:“宣传一直是他们的一把大刀,舆论这个意识形态斗争他们从来没有放弃过,音乐、诗歌、文学,方方面面都在审查,他们就是要把自由思想、把中国人的血性、骨头,全部阉割,全部毁灭。然后他们才好没有监督、没有异议、没有批评、没有反叛,让他们掌权,然后得利。”

2012年,崔健终于回到大陆的电视舞台上。去年,崔健在《北京卫视》的“春晚”里演唱《花房姑娘》。

“你问我要去向何方,我指着大海的方向,你的惊奇像是给我,噢﹗赞扬。”

现年已经52岁的崔健,摇滚如昔,相较20多年前那个唱着《一无所有》却锋芒毕露的他而言,崔健的歌声,在沙哑中,多了岁月淬炼的内涵。崔健并非“一无所有”。

采访/唐音、秦雪 编辑/周平 后制/萧宇


Cui Jian Won't Attend CCTV's Spring Festival Gala

Cui Jian, the father of Chinese rock, was recently reported
to be performing on CCTV's horse year spring festival gala.

But Cui Jian's agent emailed NTD, saying:"Cui Jian indeed
received an invitation from the spring festival gala team, but
Mr. Cui Jian won't participate in the performance at the end."

After years of being banned from performing, the Chinese
Communist Party (CCP) finally lifted the ban on him.

So why does Cui Jian refuse to perform in such a big yearly
entertainment show?
Please see the report.

Cui Jian became very popular after a song
"Nothing to my name" in May 1986.

He and his band performed the song on Tiananmen Square
in May 1989, the year of the "June 4 Movement", to support
the students there who were on hunger strike fighting for
democracy in China.

After the Tiananmen Square massacre, Cui Jian's album
publishing and business performance didn't go well.

In 1990, Cui Jian performed a song called "Last Shot" that
memorializes the Sino-Vietnamese war in a concert
on the Asian Games. At the end of the song, he said,
"We hope the gun shot we heard last year was the last."

"A stray bullet hit my chest.
Instantly my life flashed before my eyes.
There's only tears but not sad.
If this is the last shot, I'll accept the great glory."

Cui Jian is a symbol of rebellion and critical spirits.
Cui wasn't allowed to perform on any official stages
except bars and small places for many years.

Having always been low key, Cui was recently reported
to be invited to perform on CCTV's spring festival gala,
which has raised attention on him.

But Cui's agent, Youyou, leaked to NTD earlier
that Cui won't participate in the gala.

In an email to NTD, Youyou indicated: "Mr. Cui Jian is
currently busy working on his first movie 'The Blue Bone', he
doesn't have time to have a face to face interview with you.
Mr. Cui indeed received an invitation from the spring festival
gala team, but Mr. Cui eventually will not go to perform."

Cui Jian's agent, Youyou: "Because we received a notice
that his performance didn't pass the censor."

NTD reporter: "What did he want to sing?"

Youyou: "Nothing to my name."

Reporter: "Which part didn't pass the censor?"

Youyou: "We don't know. We just got notice, so we won't go.
It's in fact very simple, it isn't worth so much attention.
I think, what can a spring festival gala represent?
Cui Jian has a lot of fans all over the world.
As an excellent musician, music is the most important."

Following the convention, all the performances in the spring
festival gala must be censored 4 to 6 times, but the details
of the censor is kept hidden.

Mainland poet and dissident Wang Zang: "From the CCP's
perspective, they want to win over the rebels.
We saw that many people have been bribed over the years.
The CCP scolds them a little and does big favors for them.
That's what they've done all these years.
Their invitation to Cui Jian is to win him over.
If he performs on the gala, all his works in the past,
those positive values, will be basically ruined."

The CCTV gala lifts the ban on Cui Jian this year, which
may be to show an open attitude, said Ai Xiaoming, former
professor at Sun Yat-sen University and independent
filmmaker. But its censor system cannot be changed.

"I think the censor system must be abolished, the problem
is that it can't be abolished under the one-party dictatorship.
In this situation, would you accept the censor or not?
Would you insist on fighting for freedom of speech?

Or do you change yourself to follow their rule, and get a
chance to speak up? He has the chance to choose."

Chinese poet and dissident Wang Zang thinks that allowing
Cui Jian to perform in the gala doesn't mean that the CCP is
becoming open.
Wang says the CCP is illegal which Chinese people all know.
The so-called censor is just brainwashing.
All the official actions are shows; maintaining stability shows.

Wang Zang:"Propaganda has always been their big knife.
They've never given up struggling on public opinion ideology.
They censor music, poems, literature, all aspects.
They just want to ruin all the free thoughts,
and Chinese peoples' passion and backbone.
Then, there won't be supervision, objections, critiques,
and rebelling to them. They'll get power and then profit."

Cui Jian finally came back on TV in 2012.
He sang a song called "Greenhouse Girl" on Beijing TV's
spring festival gala last year.

"You ask me where I'm heading. I point to the ocean.
Your surprise seems to give me, oh! Praise."

52 year-old Cui Jian still rocks like before.
Compared to the boldness in "Nothing to My Name" more
than 20 years ago, Cui Jian's music nowadays has more
inner meaning. Cui Jian is not "nothing to his name".

Interview/TangYin QinXue Edit/ZhouPing Post-Production/XiaoYu