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9.4.06
NOT SO INSCRUTABLE!
The Rolling Stones played a concert in China Saturday for the first time ever. Government censors, however, banned the band from playing five songs, including "Brown Sugar" and "Let's Spend the Night Together." Tickets were so expensive that the audience was predominantly rich foreigners, a fact that was not lost on Mick Jagger. "I am pleased the Ministry of Culture is protecting the morals of expatriate bankers and their girlfriends," he said.
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