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What was the last single banned by the BBC? It's a question that's been niggling away at me for sometime now. If anyone knows it'll be someone from within The Massive.
Do stations actively slap bans on songs or singles anymore? Surley it's simpler to ignore or non-playlist something potentially sensitive. And in a time of receeding sales, would any act or artist produce a piece of 'pop' contentious enough to get themselves sent to the naughty step?
While digging around for an answer to my query - found a walloping volume on banned songs - a few nuggets from the censored list include..
Lonnie Donegan - Digging my Potatoes
Banned in the UK and US on its release in 1956 for lyrical references to sex
Eno and Byrne's - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
Now excludes the track Qu'ran (in the UK) due to serious fatwahs from Islamic fundamentalists
Cliff Richard - Honky Tonk Angel
Self imposed ban from Cliff, after realising HTA's were more 'Honky Tonk' than 'Angel '
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This link might help
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_banned_by_the_BBC
The most recent one seems to have been the "half-banning" of Fairytale of New York in 1997 (you couldn't say faggot on Radio 1 but you could on Radio 2)
Cliff
Didn't they not include a Cliff tune on the Radio 1 playlist? Sort of banning him in the process?
It looks like
Fairytale of New York in 2007, although that was reversed shortly after.
I never knew Linda McCartney had a posthumous release banned though
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/262450.stm
Isn't...
Rumble by Link Wray the only instrumental song ever to be banned?
for my sins i was once in a
for my sins i was once in a band called 'The Banned' we later changed our name to 'Jahoobee' which was much better!
Was that the Banned…
… who were from Croydon and did a version of the Syndicate Of Sound's Little Girl?
I have that record.
But there's probably been several bands so-named...
The Banned
I bought "Little Girl" back in the day when you could actually walk into a record shop and buy an actual record. Ah, those were the days.
So were you Rick Mansworth?
MLITBOG
is still easily obtainable with the track 'Qu'ran' in place if you try somewhere more eclectic than Amazon.
In fact, I've ended up with three different versions of the album with slightly different tracklistings.
When I decided to buy a new copy I deliberately set out to acquire a copy with the 'offensive' track included, just to spite the fathead fatwah fellas.
To be pedantic
and assuming wikipedia can be believed - there never was a fatwah against Qu'ran. A Muslim Organisation in America did state publically that the track might cause offence and Eno/Byrne decided to remove it as it was not their intention to offend.
Above link...
Banned by Top of the Pops
› Bjork - Alarm Call - For her animated nipples! - 1998
How did I miss that one? Off to YouTube...