Rolling Stones - A bunch of counter-revolutionaries!

[Mike B.]

Rolling Stones - A bunch of counter-revolutionaries!

It seems the Rolling Stones kicked off a world tour in Japan. There next stop is Beijing. ABC News reported they can play, but are banned from singing these songs:

"Beast of Burden"
"Let's Spend the Night Together"
"Brown Sugar"
"Honky Tonk Woman"

Why do you think it is so?

For moral reasons they could have banned "Start me Up!"

sample lyric -"You make a dead man cum."

or is it racial element with Brown Sugar?

other songs don't fit though...

any thoughts?

[BillyTK]

I think there's a perfectly moral argument to stopping them performing fullstop. Gimme a few days and I'll come up with it...

I mean, men of their age are normally preparing for retirement, not cavorting round stages trying to reclaim their lost youth (except for Keith Richards, who has looked like the Grim Reaper since I dropped out the womb). They've got the entertainment factor of that drunken uncle at a wedding reception *thinks: maybe that's the real secret of their success!*