By way of an explanation, Mick Jagger said he’d applied the simulated bruises himself. Photograph: Atlantic Recordsįive women connected with the group – “armed with buckets of fire-engine-red paint”, according to the magazine Mother Jones – defaced the hoarding, writing “This is a crime against women.” The band’s label, Atlantic Records, pulled the campaign.
The controversial advert for the Rolling Stones’ Black and Blue album from 1976, featuring the model Anita Russell.