Spinal Tap-style band's 'overtly sexual' posters banned

ASA rules Steel Panthers' ads likely to offend, despite record label's claim they were meant to poke fun at 1980s attitudesThe advertising watchdog has banned posters for a Spinal Tap-style band after complaints that the ads were demeaning to women.Described by record label Universal Island as a pastiche of an 1980s heavy metal band taking inspiration from the likes of Whitesnake and Bon Jovi, the Steel Panthers were shown on the poster with big hair reminiscent of director Rob Reiner's band fro...

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