4:20 Flashback: Name the band

Posted on April 8, 2019

420 Flashback 4-8-19

Following 2003’s false starts this band finally performed for the first time in mainland China, at Shanghai’s Grand Stage Theatre. They were banned from performing three songs. Name the band.

Answer: Rolling Stones

The three banned songs were: Brown Sugar, Honky Tonk Women, and Rough Justice.

Chinese rock star Cui Jian joined the band on stage for a duet with Mick Jagger on Wild Horses.

Mick’s “minimally invasive” heart valve replacement procedure was successful. Resting at an unspecified New York City hospital. Jagger was given a transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR). By using this procedure, doctors were able to repair the heart valve using a catheter that accesses a major artery without opening the chest.

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