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Topic: Stones Decry 'Ridiculous' Super Bowl Censorship Return to archive
February 8th, 2006 08:10 AM
justinkurian From Billboard:

The Rolling Stones considered the decision to censor two of their songs during the Super Bowl halftime show on Sunday "ridiculous" and unnecessary, a representative for the band said.

Stones spokesperson Fran Curtis took issue with a comment by a National Football League spokesperson yesterday (Feb. 6) 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' performance, 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 spokesperson Brian McCarthy said yesterday. "We had agreed to that plan earlier in the week. The Stones were aware of it and they were fine with it."


But Curtis 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.
February 8th, 2006 08:20 AM
gimmekeef Then what a perfect opportunity to regain some credability and pull out!..If in fact this is true and I have my doubts...
February 8th, 2006 01:27 PM
jb [quote]gimmekeef wrote:
Then what a perfect opportunity to regain some credability and pull out!..If in fact this is true and I have my doubts
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We agree!!!

They totally knew about it and I think they are being totally disingenuous to suggest otherwise. Maybe Miscner did not some out and say we are not allowing cum/cock referenced, but they absolutely knew of the 5 second delay and Jagger, a total control freak, knew exactly why.
February 8th, 2006 02:14 PM
texile of course jagger knew - why would he expect otherwise?
this is stupid .........
is this supposed to be some brave declaration against censorship? the reference to making a dead man cum ....ain't exactly earth shattering or defiant.
the stones lost credibility by doing the show in the first place - whats the point?
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