ABC Censors, The Stones OK

[SOURCE: Reuters, NYTimes]
The Rolling Stones sang three songs for the Super Bowl XL halftime show Sunday night and were censored in two of them. They agreed to be censored a National Football League spokesman said on Monday. During "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. "We had agreed to that plan earlier in the week. The Stones were aware of it and they were fine with it." The New York Times said last week the Stones had agreed to tone down their language on other occasions in the past. Back in 1967 the band appeared on "The Ed Sullivan Show" on the same day as the first Super Bowl, which was then called the world championship game. They wanted to sing "Let's Spend the Night Together," but Sullivan insisted they change the lyrics to "Let's Spend Some Time Together." "Jagger consented, reluctantly, but rolled his eyes while he sang," the newspaper said.

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