Stones get Super-Bowled
As a bit of light relief from murderous Mo toon temper tantrums, let us turn our gaze across the Atlantic where the Rolling Stones are considered too fruity for the sensitive ears of your average American football fan.
According to the BBC. the Stones played three songs during their half-time performance, two of which were censored. Start Me Up and Rough Justice both received the blue pencil treatment, but (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction remained untouched.
Presumably the Start Me Up line that caused faint hearts to flutter was
You’d make a dead man come
As to Rough Justice, it’s a toss up between
Once upon a time I was your little rooster
But am I just one of your cocks
and
So put your lips to my hips, baby
And tell me what’s on your mind
Maybe next year they’ll invite Iggy Pop?
(Thanks to Andrew)
The Stones have done this in the states before, back in the 60s they changed “Let’s Spend The Night Together” to “Let’s Spend Some Time Together” when performing on the Ed Sullivan show.
Not very rock & roll really are they?
But it’s been a long time since rock & roll has been rock & roll though, hasn’t it?
If it ever was in the first place.
Andrew Nixon wrote,
I may be wrong, but I seem to remember that, when the Stones performed at a Royal Variety, there was talk of their changing this line thus, but it was reported that the Queen had not wished them to change their act. And that was in the sixties.
More SHOCK! news…what, American broadcasters/event managers/politicians/let’s throw “scientists” in there because it’s true even if not strictly relevant, running scared of blackmailing supernaturalists?
wow.
Maybe they were terrified of the possible appearance of a naked “man-breast” during the Stones’ performance, too? (they must be getting a little saggy by now, wouldn’t ya think?)
Ho hum.
Just got to stop it from happening here.
What NO MARS BARS?
Shocking – don’t know what the world’s coming (oops) to!
If memory serves, it was for a performance on Top of the Pops (or was it some other UK TV music show? I’m pretty sure it was TOTP) that the Stones first changed ‘Let’s spend the night together’ to ‘Let’s spend some time together’.
I’m pretty sure it was the Ed Sullivan show. Sullivan had a habit of asking bands to change objectional lyrics. He asked The Doors to change a line in “Light My Fire”, but they refused and sang the line anyway.
Judging from recent events, maybe blasphemy is the new rock and roll.
Well, I haven’t had this much fun, anyway, since….doh, name escapes me ..funny looking bloke…rotten teeth and spikey orange hair…memory isn’t what it was
It could’ve been the Krusty the Klown show, although his network exec had more success than Sullivan’s. When the Krusty exec asked The Red Hot Chili Peppers to change their line ‘What I got you gotta get and put it in you’ to ‘What I’d like is I would like to hug and kiss you’, they agreed that it was much better and the whole family could enjoy it.