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Q: Late 60s-1970s
The late 60s there were Hippies in the 70s there was Glam Rock,In the late 60s were there any Chinese Hippies?In the 70s were there any Chinese Glam Rockers? late 70s there was punk.
I was born in 67 so I grew up in the 70s and 80s,but I got into David Bowie,Queen,Rod Stewart,Gary Glitter,T.Rex,The Rolling Stones,Iggy Pop,The Faces.
Did The Chinese get into music or the way of life back in the late 60s or 1970s?
Umm....err, Rob......Yeah. Reminds me of the story when the Red Guard caught a Chinese peasant hiding a Motown album under his medicine cabinet. When Mao got word of this, he summoned the farmer to his headquarters and made him sing Twist and Shout for 32 straight hours. Yeah, good times.
BlightyMatt:
Maotown would have been ok.
The Maomas and Papas?
The Animaols?
How about The Beat (your teacher to death) les?
I'll get my coat...
You mean during the cultural revolution or...?
RobRocks:
were Chinese people in to the Hippy way of life Peace Love,The Music,or in the 70s when Glam Rock started,the glitter clothes,platform shoes?
No. China missed out on all of that. That's why Chinese music is a potpourri of derivative horse shit. China is much like what America and other Western countries were like in the fifties - consumerist and conservative.
laowaigentleman:
Nice summation.
They never had existentialism or the beats either, so they're even worse.
To their credit they had no Sylvia Plath so on balance they are as you say they are.
mattharling:
Are the diaozi (losers) China's hippies? They are deliberately out of the race for money and most refuse to hear the nationalist war-minded propaganda of the government.
No, but apparently there were hippies that came to China then.
...They were never heard from again.
laowaigentleman:
One of them wrote a book. I think his name was Mr. Snow...
Source: My mother was a hippy then, and she knew them.
China had the Red Guards. They were quite different from hippies. It was a bit like the ol' Geheimestaatpolizei in the 1930s running into the houses of a bourgeois abode and dragging the father out kicking and screaming for having the audacity to say that the leader was a bit of an oaf who was suffering from delusions of grandeur. Red Guards tended to be pimply, loud xiangba laos who thought their sycophancy and belligerence would carry them ahead in life in lieu of acquiring any marketable skills. A precursor for the current day.
They had some pretty narly tunes which can be seen as the original source of inspiration of the fantastic music you hear in China today like Xiao Pinguo and the high art produced by the TS Boys.
Here are a couple of song titles: The East Is Red and Wo Ai Beijing Tiananmen.
Professors from Peking University had to sing the songs while they were sharecropping in rural Guangzi province.
Mao was a rock star. Just look at his image and lifestyle. It's only the hair that needs fixing.
@ Rob. Be careful about telling people that you are a Gary Glitter fan. Especially if you take frequent trips to Thailand.
RobRocks:
was a Gary Glitter fan but not any more since all that stuff he did.
but when I was a kid everyone liked him.
icnif77:
I didn't! 'Too shiny' for my ears at that time.
I was on 'Metal Guru' and 'Telegram Sam'. I still have 45' records of T. Rex.
royceH:
I took a girl to a Gary Glitter concert back in the days when he was as big as Slade. Pretty sure that was my first ever date. But not my first ever concert. I remember that one very well, it was Skyhooks. Her name was Ildigo Mulner and she'd come from one of those Baltic countries. Of course, back then, they weren't countries.
Later on today I've decided I'll hook into the turps and go T Rex. And Talking Heads too probably. Thanks for the prompt.
Just another day in Disneyland.....
icnif77:
@nz: 'Metal Guru' lyrics are classy: whole song 2x 'metal guru', 1x 'is a true', and again 1x 'metal guru-uuu'. Then some Marc's guitar solo, and again 'metal guruuuu..' 
for some 3', but I like it last century. My pop asked me once: 'What is a song about?' LOL I guess, he was tired of constant repeating.
Their hit was 'Children of the Revolution', but everything else sucks mostly.
royceH:
I gave a dictation lesson once that was actually the lyrics to Children of the Revolution.
Then I played the song. The only person who thought this was a good lesson was me.
Hahahhaha...
Ahhh, Rob, this is somewhat like the equivalent to a Chinese person asking a group of Westerners what popular culture was like in Europe during the late 30s-1940s. Let's just say that the Chinese, for a number of different reasons were distracted by various "unforeseen" events.
Umm....err, Rob......Yeah. Reminds me of the story when the Red Guard caught a Chinese peasant hiding a Motown album under his medicine cabinet. When Mao got word of this, he summoned the farmer to his headquarters and made him sing Twist and Shout for 32 straight hours. Yeah, good times.
BlightyMatt:
Maotown would have been ok.
The Maomas and Papas?
The Animaols?
How about The Beat (your teacher to death) les?
I'll get my coat...
Rob, Mr Mandu...facepalm 
You've been in China for 15 years and never got the Cultural Revolution briefing?
Ai-yaaaa!
Anything not Mao was evil. Forget the summer of love, people were eating their teachers in Guangxi province and Deng Xiao Ping's son wasn't stage diving when he was thrown out of a 4th storey window for being a capitalist roader.
Photos of 1960s-70s ("Cultural Revolution"). You probably need a VPN to see these google photos
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https://menso.files.wordpress.com/20...
Video clippings
https://youtu.be/LGpmVs0_Dbc
"Declassified" video footage after 40 years. For a short 20 minutes version, start watching at 43min. Most of those captured in this footage, tasted their first human blood in their teens without legal consequences, are now in their 50s. You see them everyday if you are in PRC.......
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Not much going down around here back then, Rob. Things were pretty quiet and one dimensional. People had to be careful what they did and who they talked to.
While we were watching Lost in Space and Skippy, and bopping along to The Carpenters and Sammy Davis Jnr, the locals were selling their souls in order to just get through the day. Lots of them didn't. 40 or 50 million or so.
can you imagine a KISS concert in Shanghai during the 80s? 
