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Franco commissioned the popular British rhythm and blues band, Manfred Mann, to do the soundtrack and in order to conform to the studio’s wishes he decided to make the male lead a white trumpet player who has a sexual relationship with a black female jazz singer (reversing the interracial dynamics of his original idea). In a sign of the times of where society was morally in 1969, the producers of the movie had no problem with scenes of a white man in bed with a black woman but they were dead set against showing a black man in bed with a white woman. Franco decided to split the persona of his original idea of the female lead into two women and have the trumpet player romantically involved with a black jazz singer, yet he falls for a mysterious woman, a white woman named Wanda who would be the Venus (adorned) in furs, the way the movie studio demanded.