SHANGHAI: The sexual lyrics of "Honky Tonk Women" were apparently too much for China's Communist fathers as the Rolling Stones said the chart-topping song was "vetoed" for their second ever show in the country on Wednesday.
"About now we'd usually play something like 'Honky Tonk Women'... but it's been vetoed," front man Mick Jagger said at Wednesday's show, according to a posting on the band's official Twitter feed. He did not give a reason.
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