ON THIS DATE (48 YEARS AGO) January 15, 1967 - The Rolling Stones appeared on a live broadcast of CBS-TVs The Ed Sullivan Show to perform a set that included new tracks from their soon-to-be-released album, Between The Buttons. The first number, “Ruby Tuesday” was a memorable performance by Jagger and company and then the band followed up with a notorious censored version of “Let’s Spend The Night Together.” Earlier that day CBS and Sullivan had demanded that Mick change the lyric, “Let’s spend the night together,” to “Let’s spend some time together.” When the band balked, Ed issued the ultimatum, “Either the song goes, or you go.” After finally agreeing, the band was repeatedly reminded about the line change during dress rehearsal. Mick, fed up with being told what to do, cussed out talent coordinator Vince Calandra, when he was once again reminded he needed to change the lyrics of the song. While performing the song live, Mick did as he was told but rolled his eyes and sarcastically exaggerated the altered line. On the following week’s show, CBS replayed The Rolling Stone’s performance of “Ruby Tuesday” but chose not to rerun the controversial “Let’s Spend the Night Together.” The Rolling Stones
Posted on: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 19:40:00 +0000
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