| February 7th, 2006 07:44 PM |
|
|
| deuce |
Breaking news
NFL’s clip job on Stones makes grown men cry foul
February 7, 2006
Email this Print this By BRIAN McCOLLUM
FREE PRESS POP MUSIC WRITER
Turns out the Rolling Stones weren’t too happy about their Super Bowl bleeping after all.
Two days after their halftime set at Ford Field, the Stones denounced the silencing of Mick Jagger’s microphone by NFL and ABC-TV producers during two risque lyrical bits.
“The Rolling Stones thought the censorship of their songs by the NFL-ABC was absolutely ridiculous and completely unnecessary,” said band spokewoman Fran Curtis, reading from a prepared statement Tuesday afternoon. Curtis declined further comment.
The statement does not refute the NFL’s contention that the group was aware beforehand that the vocals would be clipped. But it does conflict with the league’s stance that the Stones “were fine with it,” as an NFL publicist told the Free Press Sunday night.
The lyrics at issue include a notorious sexual reference during the closing bars of “Start Me Up” -- long bleeped out by many mainstream rock stations -- and a double entendre in the first verse of the band’s recent single “Rough Justice.”
The band left Detroit Monday morning, wrapping up five days in the city.
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060207/NEWS11/60207013
|
| February 7th, 2006 10:52 PM |
|
|
| Lazy Bones |
Rolling Stones fume over NFL censorship
By DAVID BAUDER
NEW YORK (AP) - Nobody turns off the microphone on Mick Jagger without a fight.
Censorship of songs during the Super Bowl halftime show was "absolutely ridiculous and completely unnecessary," the Rolling Stones said through a spokeswoman on Tuesday.
The NFL, which produced the show Sunday night, silenced Jagger's microphone during sexually suggestive passages of two of the three songs the band performed before an audience of 90 million television viewers.
The football league, still nervous over the Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction two years ago at the Super Bowl, has said it wanted to ensure family entertainment at the game.
"The band was aware of our plan to simply lower Mick's mike at the appropriate moments," said Brian McCarthy, NFL spokesman. "It was discussed with the group last week prior to the Super Bowl."
He declined further comment on the Stones' statement.
The band may have known about it, but that doesn't mean they liked it, spokeswoman Fran Curtis said. Jagger sang the full lyrics during his performance, she said.
In Start Me Up, the show's editors silenced one word close to the song's end, a reference to a woman so sexy she could arouse a dead man. The lyrics for Rough Justice included a synonym for rooster that was removed.
The Stones also performed (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction, but the lyric "I can't get no girlie action" made it through unscathed.
The incident was reminiscent of the band's performance on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1967, when the host demanded the Stones change the lyrics to Let's Spend the Night Together. As ordered, Jagger sang "let's spend some time together," but he rolled his eyes for effect. |
|
