Censor gets satisfaction from the Stones

The Rolling Stones are likely to heed China's censors when they offer mainland fans some long-awaited satisfaction with a concert next month.

The Stones had two shows in China cancelled in 2003 because of the Sars epidemic.

The Chinese Ministry of Culture told the band in 2003 it could not perform four songs - Let's Spend the Night Together, Brown Sugar, Honky Tonk Women and Beast of Burden. Those songs are among their most sexually explicit hits.

"They know there are differences between Chinese and Western cultures," an official said. "They don't want to do anything against the Chinese Government."