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Nine Million Bicycles (3:15)

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There are nine million bicycles in Beijing
That's a fact
It's a thing we can't deny
Like the fact that I will love you till I die

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  • NorthernExile

    Nice gentle relaxing tune with an oriental touch, like it.

    3 Apr 9:44pm Reply

  • quiettt

    Dith is in Shanghi, smiles to her

    20 Mar 2:34pm Reply

  • kmullin

    this is jazz?

    28 Dec 2012 Reply

  • fabadi

    Just been to the Glasgow concert Fantastic!! Check out Boy. Boy is a Swiss-German pop duo founded in 2007 by singer Valeska Steiner and bassist Sonja Glass. The two met while at a pop-music course at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg in 2005

    16 Oct 2012 Reply

  • Sphoenixx

    What a beautiful voice...

    8 Jul 2012 Reply

  • manfred_raginat

    wunderbare frau mit softstimme zum verlieben

    1 Jul 2012 Reply

  • Reyna-Music

    You might also like the Reyna´s Album "Purity" with piano songs accompanied with cello. http://www.lastfm.de/music/Reyna/Purity

    21 May 2012 Reply

  • HorstKrannich

    +++ wundervolle Stimme +++

    2 May 2012 Reply

  • Miss_Calvero

    ♥ great song ♥ love it ♥

    12 Apr 2012 Reply

  • PurplePostRock

    Beautiful song. Is she in love with some Chinese dude though?

    9 Apr 2012 Reply

  • Musik-Heart

    unvergesslich

    31 Mar 2012 Reply

  • Bieene

    hachuchoooohhhahhhhuie hey!

    24 Mar 2012 Reply

  • Cappadozz

    ..und honig-süß rinnt es vom Himmel nieder.

    20 Mar 2012 Reply

  • Pusteblumme

    Toller Song :-))) Danke Armin:-)

    15 Feb 2012 Reply

  • ladycaroledowns

    Nice song, thanks Armin :-)

    11 Feb 2012 Reply

  • rikrijean

    THANKS, ARMIN......A WONDERFUL SONG.....

    11 Feb 2012 Reply

  • victoria1908

    AMAZING~~~~~~~~~~~~~!!!! Wonderful voice...!

    18 Jan 2012 Reply

  • blueskyfrank

    Don't forget that Bicknor is 103!!! Nice song, by the way...

    28 Nov 2011 Reply

  • bicknor

    Good info from silversurfer250 - shows the value of having us older folks around. We can, and do, provide sensible guidance for the youngsters. Not that they necessarily take much notice, of course.

    26 Nov 2011 Reply

  • silversurfer250

    "According to Melua, the inspiration for the song came from when her interpreter during her time in Beijing[1], China, was showing her and her manager, Mike Batt, around the city. The interpreter gave them information about Beijing, including that there are supposedly nine million bicycles in the city. Batt wrote a song based around the title "Nine Million Bicycles" upon his return to England two weeks later, and it was one of the last songs to be recorded for Piece by Piece. Adrian Brett, who played the ethnic flutes on Batt's album Caravans (1978), contributed to the song; an ocarina was used for the low sounds, and a Chinese bamboo flute for the high sounds.[2]" https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Nine_Million_Bicycles

    5 Nov 2011 Reply
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