At 5pm last Tuesday afternoon, four people carriers with blacked-out windows pulled up outside the Park Hyatt hotel in Beijing’s central business district. From one of them emerged the four members of the softly sentimental, slightly square, British pop group Keane. They had just returned from performing a three-song set at a turret on the Great Wall of China, and were wearing head-to-toe Burberry in honour of the brand that had paid for their trip. Local passers-by stopped, pointed their mobile phones at each member, and intermittently clapped.
不久前，四輛拉黑簾的麪包車在北京中心商業區的柏悅酒店(Park Hyatt hotel)前停下，從其中一輛車上走下來的是英國流行音樂基音樂隊 (Keane)四位溫柔多情、儀表堂堂的成員。他們剛剛在長城(Great Wall of China)的塔樓上開完演唱會（三首歌），從頭到腳一身巴寶莉(Burberry)行頭，以回饋該品牌對其中國之行的資助。路過酒店的北京當地人駐足觀看，爭相用手機拍每位隊員，並不時有掌聲響起。