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Via the Guardian, the Stones sex it down.
When the [Rolling] Stones make their Chinese debut next month, they will succumb to government pressure by dropping Brown Sugar, Let’s Spend the Night Together, Honky Tonk Woman and Beast of Burden from their playlist, an associate told Reuters.
The Chinese ministry of culture told the band in 2003 that these four songs -some of the most sexually explicit in the band’s repertoire – were unacceptable. …
It has been a long time coming. The British band has been in talks about playing in China since the late 1970s, when a concert was denied by a government concerned about “spiritual pollution” from western culture.
