Peking All-Stars

The lineup changed regularly over the years, but members included:

• Guitarist and singer Graham Earnshaw, the band's founder, who went on to claim to be the first person to play the kazoo on the Great Wall of China.^[2]
• Guitarist Michael Schoenhals, later to leverage his collection of Chairman Mao buttons into a position as Scandinavian expert on China's Cultural Revolution.^[3]
• Palestinian lead guitarist Nassir, who took a sabbatical from the band in mid-1983 to drive tanks against Israel in southern Lebanon, and committed suicide in around 1991.^[4]
• American guitarist Tad Stoner, who later became a journalist and bar owner in Hong Kong and is now a journalist in the Cayman Islands.
• American bass player Fred Burke, who went on to become a prominent corporate lawyer in Vietnam.
• American guitarist Larry Vest.
• Swedish sax player Frédéric Cho, who went on to become one of Scandinavia's top China financial experts and Asian Manager at HQ Bank.^[5]
• Madagascan drummer Robinson, who went on to found his own band named Nogabe that is currently based in London.^[6][7]

The band played a number of performances at the Friendship Hotel, the Jianguo Hotel, the Beijing Foreign Languages Institute and at embassies, but restrictions on cultural activities resulting from the so-called Anti-Spiritual Pollution Campaign in 1983-1984 made it difficult for the band to find opportunities to gig.^[8]

Earnshaw, who owned the bands gear, eventually passed on the drums and amplifiers to a Madagascan band that was starting up in 1984, while his Fender Telecaster went on long-term loan to the Madagascan guitarist Eddie, who later became the lead guitarist with the so-called godfather of Chinese rock, Cui Jian.

• https://books.google.com/books?id=3lzAP60wWj8C&dq=peking+%22all+stars%22&pg=PA129
• https://web.archive.org/web/20170608105857/http://www.earnshaw.com/peking-music