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Thread #8426   Message #52124
Posted By: Tim Jaques tjaques@netcom.ca
05-Jan-99 - 06:46 PM
Thread Name: banned songs
Subject: RE: banned songs
Starfucker by the Rolling Stones was also banned from the airwaves, and on the album cover was referred to as Star Star.

I seem to recall that Sex And Drugs And Rock and Roll, by Ian Dury and the Blockheads, was also banned by the BBC.

I think even the Beatles had songs banned.

And of course, years ago "white" stations would never play the "black" version of a song, only the cleaned up and castrated white version. I don't think Joe Turner got too much air time on white stations.:)

I used to do a folk and blues show at university years ago, and remember being told not to play a song and then speak badly of it. I broke this rule all the time, because I used to like to play a lame version of a song, and then a good version (IMHO, of course) and then point out what made the lame version lame and the good version good. Since the station brass never listened to folk and blues I usually got away with it.