The Rolling Stones have said that the censorship of their songs during their half time performance at the US Super Bowl last weekend was "absolutely ridiculous", contradicting the National Football League's claim that the Stones agreed to the cuts, saying the band were "aware of it and were fine" about it. But The Stones said yesterday that the decision to censor them was "completely unnecessary".
As previously reported, lyrics deemed too sexually explicit for the event's 90 million strong TV audience were cut from two songs during the course of the rock group's twelve minute set. The event was broadcast on a five second delay by the ABC network, who say that the decision to strategically censor the performance lay with the NFL.