Erotic video may be banned

Press, 29 January 1986, Page 4

Erotic video may be banned

NZPA-AAP London A video by the blueblood rock group, The Business Connection, containing erotic and violent scenes is in danger of being banned from television.

length ball gown with black elbow length gloves and an exotic diamond necklace. It opens with her running up a hill until she reaches the caves. She discovers a group of men dining and dances for them. The band is unmoved about the controversy. The Marquis said: “I was never beaten at Eton and the caning in the video is very much makebelieve. “It’s all a bit of fun and helps to sell the single. It achieves its aim. I don’t think there’s anything in it to stop it being shown on TV.” The video has not yet been screened on television even though it is normal record company practice to get as many advance screenings as possible before a record release, the newspaper said.

The band’s lead singer, the raunchy Lady Teresa Manners, is seen helping to strip another member, the Marquis of Worcester, and being held down by three men who squeeze lemon juice on her chest. In another scene, Lady Teresa, the daughter of the Duke of Rutland, dances provocatively while the Marquis plays a blind man who is beaten savagely with a stick, the “Daily Mail” reports. The video, timed to coincide with the release of the group’s first album, appears as Britain’s television industry is coming under increasing fire to clean up its act. Lady Teresa is seen in the video wearing a full