• March 06, 2003 Beijing Kunlun Hotel, Rolling Stones' "Forty Licks" tour Press Conference

~~It's official: Beijing and Shanghai will get their own taste of the Rolling Stones' "Forty Licks" tour.

~~Two Rolling Stones concert dates have been confirmed for Beijing and Shanghai, an organizer said Sunday. The shows, part of the band's 40th anniversary tour, will be the band's first in the world's most populous country.

~~Cui Jian, China's most famous rocker, will open for the Stones in Beijing.

~~Cui, 42, said he taught himself to play the guitar in the 1980s by learning Rolling Stones and Beatles songs.

~~"They are my heroes," Cui told the Associated Press on Sunday. "It's a big honor for me."