Let's spend the night together!

Once again during the "dead blogging" period of Saturday I will indulge my interest in 1960s music.

Now today's offering is one that really caused a big problem in our East London church youth club. To put it into words of one syllable - it was banned!

Even though it was the number one single we weren't allowed to play it on the gramophone. I used to dance like Mick Jagger sang and really enjoyed the Stones. I could dance all night just to the Stones (well I did then). I imagine that here in the Black Country Fat Prophet danced in a similar style. I shall be reading his new book to find out!

Apparently the vicar had read an article about in The Church Times and decided that it was advocating fornication.

I must admit that when I first heard it my assumption that it was the sort of thing that two married people would say to one another after they had had a flaming but non-terminal row.

Mind you at that point it hadn't really occurred to me that it was even about sex, mainly because I had only a very hazy notion about that sort of thing.

Apparently on American television the words were changed to "Let's spend some time together" and I think it would have been just as popular were Jagger to have used that formula. Then we could have danced to it on a Friday night!

With the passing of forty years or more I'm wondering if it still offends and outrages in the way that it did then? I'd be interested to know if it would be banned into today's church youth clubs, that is where they still exist. Another dying part of our community fabric.