| February 6th, 2006 01:54 PM |
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| gimmekeef |
NEW YORK (AFP) - Age, it seems, has mellowed the Rolling Stones, who agreed to have their half-time performance at Sunday's Super Bowl censored twice for lyrics deemed too sexually explicit for family viewing.
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The National Football League (NFL) said Monday that the British rock and roll legends had been consulted about the cuts prior to their appearance at the championship game between the Seattle Seahawks and Pittsburgh Steelers.
In an apparent compromise, Mick Jagger actually sang the offending lyrics, but the NFL, which produced the show, switched off his mike so that they went unheard in the stadium and on the broadcast by the ABC television network.
"As planned and agreed upon with the Stones, we turned down Mick's mike for two specific seconds," said NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy.
The cuts included lyrics from the songs "Start Me Up" and "Rough Justice."
"The Stones were fine with it. They didn't have an issue. Mick knew that's what our plan was," McCarthy said.
Producers have maintained tight controls on the content of the Super Bowl's half-time show ever since Janet Jackson's right breast was exposed two years ago in what was famously blamed on a "wardrobe malfunction."
The incident, which was broadcast to millions of TV viewers worldwide, led to the CBS network -- the broadcaster for that year -- being fined 550,000 dollars.
This year, ABC showed the half-time event on a five-second delay, the first time such a precaution against profanity or Jackson-like exposures had been taken in Super Bowl history.
ABC spokesman Mark Mandel said the network had played no part in censoring the Stones.
"ABC had nothing to do with it," Mandel said. "There was nothing that was heard in the stadium that required ABC to do anything."
The Stones sang three songs on Sunday, wrapping up with the anthemic "Satisfaction" which went untouched by the censors.
"Here's one we could have done at Super Bowl I," Jagger, 62, said as he introduced the golden oldie.
"Everything comes to those who wait," he added -- again without interference.
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| February 6th, 2006 08:21 PM |
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| the worst kinda guy |
i don't believe it for one minute. |
| February 6th, 2006 08:26 PM |
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| Gazza |
of course they did. |
| February 6th, 2006 09:30 PM |
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| glencar |
Much ado about nothing. |
| February 7th, 2006 12:03 PM |
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| egon |
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NEW YORK (AFP) - Age, it seems, has mellowed the Rolling Stones, who agreed to have their half-time performance at Sunday's Super Bowl censored twice for lyrics deemed too sexually explicit for family viewing.
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Let's spend some time together...?
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| February 7th, 2006 05:55 PM |
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| Gazza |
they may have agreed to it, but now it seems they're complaining about it....
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Rolling Stones considered the decision to censor two of their songs during the U.S. Super Bowl halftime show on Sunday "ridiculous" and unnecessary, a representative for the band said on Tuesday.
Stones spokeswoman Fran Curtis took issue with a comment by a National Football League spokesman on Monday that the band was not only aware of the plan to lower the volume on Mick Jagger's microphone for two lines but also "fine with it."
Producers of the top rated U.S. television event of the year have been cautious about causing offense ever since Janet Jackson bared her breast during her act in 2004 in a now famous "wardrobe malfunction."
During the Rolling Stones' act on Sunday, in the song "Start Me Up," the line "you make a dead man come" was cut short and a barnyard reference to "cocks" in the new song "Rough Justice" also disappeared.
"The Rolling Stones were aware of our plan which was to simply lower the volume on his microphone at those two appropriate moments," NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy told Reuters on Monday. "We had agreed to that plan earlier in the week. The Stones were aware of it and they were fine with it."
But the Stone's representative said the members of the band were far from happy with the decision to cut the lines on the broadcast which was carried by ABC.
"The Rolling Stones thought the censorship of their songs by the NFL/ABC was absolutely ridiculous and completely unnecessary," Curtis said, adding that they were aware of the plan before the show.
Asked whether the Stones had felt strongly enough to take any action, such as pulling out of the show, she said: "The band did the songs they were supposed to do and they sang all the words."
"There were many many conversations back and forth and the band clearly was not happy about it."
ABC Sports has said any alteration of the lyrics was done by the NFL and its production company.
© Reuters 2006. All Rights Reserved.
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| February 7th, 2006 06:47 PM |
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| Soldatti |
It's done, they can't do anything now. I think that Mick is very pissed, but they got one of the biggest publicities and news reports of their career. I won't complain really. |
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