The Rolling Stones had their songs censored during their Super Bowl half-time performance in Detroit on Sunday night, when TV censors seemingly decided that some of the band's lyrics were too sexually explicit to be broadcast during the much watched family show.
Needless to say, TV bosses remain very nervous regarding the entertainment components of the Superbowl show after the extraordinary fuss that followed Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction" at the same event back in 2004, which led to the CBS network being fined a record $550,000 and losing the contract to produce the Superbowl entertainments.
The Stones only performed three songs at the event this weekend. Two were censored - 'Start Me Up' and 'Rough Justice' - whilst '(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction' was deemed acceptable as is.
This year's event was screened by the ABC network, who broadcast the game on a five second delay. But they claim that the censorship of the songs was not a result of their own policy on the matter, saying that the changes were made by the NFL (National Football League) and its producers.