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Okay, can you name any banned music

I don't like Mondays- Boom town Rats. Band USA

Relax by Frankie goes to Hollywood was banned, I think only by the BBC.

God Save The Queen - Sex Pistols

Relax - Frankie Goes To Hollywood

Too Frunk To Duck - Dead Kennedys

Pretty much the entire Judge Dread ouvre

/All of which are great songs and no mistake.
//TV and Radio Forum coming in 5... 4...

I remember Judge Dread. lol

I think Je t'aime was banned for a while.

Boney M- Rasputin banned in Russia

8) Was Paul Hard Castle and 19 Banned here

I want your Sex - George Michael
banend before 9pm.


Pray by Take That.

oooh it wasn't banned? well it sodding should have been.

Just a few . . . .
[list]AC/DC, "Shot Down in Flames," "Shoot to Thrill," "Dirty Deeds," "Highway to Hell," "Safe in New York City," "TNT," "Hell's Bells"
Ad Libs, "The Boy from New York City"
Alice In Chains, "Rooster," "Sea of Sorrow," "Down in a Hole," "Them Bone"
Alien Ant Farm, "Smooth Criminal"
Animals, "We Gotta Get Out of this Place"
Louis Armstrong, "What a Wonderful World"
Bangles, "Walk Like an Egyptian"
Barenaked Ladies, "Falling for the First Time"
Fontella Bass, "Rescue Me"
Beastie Boys, "Sure Shot," "Sabotage"
Beatles, "A Day in the Life," "Lucy in fhe Sky with Diamonds," "Ticket to Ride," "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da"
Pat Benatar, "Hit Me with Your Best Shot," "Love Is a Battlefield"
Black Sabbath, "War Pigs," "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath," "Suicide Solution"
Blood, Sweat & Tears, "And When I Die"
Blue Oyster Cult, "Burnin' for You"
Boston, "Smokin' "
Brooklyn Bridge, "Worst that Could Happen"
Arthur Brown, "Fire"
Jackson Browne, "Doctor My Eyes"
Bush, "Speed Kills"
Chi-Lites, "Have You Seen Her"
Dave Clark Five, "Bits and Pieces"
Petula Clark, "A Sign of the Times"
The Clash, "Rock the Casbah"
Phil Collins, "In the Air Tonight"
Sam Cooke, "Wonderful World"
Creedence Clearwater Revival, "Travelin' Band"
Cult, "Fire Woman"
Bobby Darin, "Mack the Knife"
Skeeter Davis, "End of the World"
Neil Diamond, "America"
Dio, "Holy Diver"
Doors, "The End"
Drifters, "On Broadway"
Drowning Pool, "Bodies"
Bob Dylan, "Knockin' on Heaven's Door"
Everclear, "Santa Monica"
Shelly Fabares, "Johnny Angel"
Filter, "Hey Man, Nice Shot"
Foo Fighters, "Learn to Fly"
Fuel, "Bad Day"
Peter Gabriel, "When You're Falling"
Gap Band, "You Dropped a Bomb on Me"
Godsmack, "Bad Religion"
Norman Greenbaum, "Spirit in the Sky"
Green Day, "Brain Stew"
Guns N' Roses, "Knockin' on Heaven's Door"
Happenings, "See You in September"
Jimi Hendrix, "Hey Joe"
Herman's Hermits, "Wonderful World"
Hollies, "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother"
Buddy Holly & the Crickets, "That'll Be the Day"
Jan & Dean, "Dead Man's Curve"
Billy Joel, "Only the Good Die Young"
Elton John, "Benny & The Jets," "Daniel," "Rocket Man"
Judas Priest, "Some Heads Are Gonna Roll"
Kansas, "Dust in the Wind"
Carole King, "I Feel the Earth Move"
Korn, "Falling Away From Me"
Lenny Kravitz, "Fly Away"
Led Zeppelin, "Stairway to Heaven"
John Lennon, "Imagine"
Jerry Lee Lewis, "Great Balls of Fire"
Limp Bizkit, "Break Stuff"
Local H, "Bound for the Floor"
Los Bravos, "Black Is Black"
Lynyrd Skynyrd, "Tuesday's Gone"
Dave Matthews Band, "Crash into Me"
Paul McCartney & Wings, "Live and Let Die"
Barry McGuire, "Eve Of Destruction"
Don McLean, "American Pie"
Steve Miller, "Jet Airliner"
Megadeth, "Dread and the Fugitive," "Sweating Bullets"
John Mellencamp, "Crumbling Down," "I'm on Fire"
Martha & the Vandellas, "Nowhere to Run," "Dancing in the Streets"
Metallica, "Seek and Destroy," "Harvester Or Sorrow," "Enter Sandman," "Fade to Black"
Alanis Morissette, "Ironic"
Mudvayne, "Death Blooms"
Rick Nelson, "Travelin' Man"
Nena, "99 Luft Balloons/99 Red Balloons"
Nine Inch Nails, "Head Like a Hole"
Oingo Boingo, "Dead Man's Party"
Paper Lace, "The Night Chicago Died"
John Parr, "St. Elmo's Fire"
Peter & Gordon, "I Go To Pieces," "A World Without Love"
Peter, Paul, & Mary, "Blowin' in the Wind," "Leavin' on a Jet Plane"
Tom Petty, "Free Fallin'"
Pink Floyd, "Run Like Hell," "Mother"
P.O.D., "Boom"
Elvis Presley, "(You're the) Devil in Disguise"
Pretenders, "My City Was Gone"
Queen, "Another One Bites the Dust," "Killer Queen"
Rage Against the Machine, all songs
Red Hot Chili Peppers, "Aeroplane," "Under the Bridge"
R.E.M., "It's the End of the World as We Know It"
Rolling Stones, "Ruby Tuesday"
Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels, "Devil with the Blue Dress"
Saliva, "Click Click Boom"
Santana, "Evil Ways"
Savage Garden, "Crash and Burn"
Simon & Garfunkel, "Bridge Over Troubled Water"
Frank Sinatra, "New York, New York"
Slipknot, "Left Behind," "Wait and Bleed"
Smashing Pumpkins, "Bullet with Butterfly Wings"
Soundgarden, "Blow Up the Outside World," "Fell on Black Days," "Black Hole Sun"
Bruce Springsteen, "I'm on Fire," "Goin' Down," "War"
Edwin Starr, "War"
Steam, "Na Na Na Na Hey Hey"
Cat Stevens, "Peace Train," "Morning Has Broken"
Stone Temple Pilots, "Big Bang Baby," "Dead and Bloated"
Sugar Ray, "Fly"
Surfaris, "Wipeout"
System of a Down, "Chop Suey!"
Talking Heads, "Burning Down the House"
James Taylor, "Fire and Rain"
Temple of the Dog, "Say Hello to Heaven"
Third Eye Blind, "Jumper"
Three Degrees, "When Will I See You Again"
3 Doors Down, "Duck and Run"
311, "Down"
Tool, "Intolerance"
Tramps, "Disco Inferno"
U2, "Sunday Bloody Sunday"
Van Halen, "Jump," "Dancing in the Streets"
J. Frank Wilson, "Last Kiss"
Yager & Evans, "In the Year 2525"
Youngbloods, "Get Together"
The Zombies, "She's Not There"
[/list:u]


Taken from E online

I can't remember who's it by, but by but "Ebenezer Scrooge" was banned from Radio 1 as they believed it promoted ectascy with its main refrain "E's a good, E's a good".

The Winking Song (misprint) - well, that is how I remember it written on the record wink

It was number one in 1977 I believe. I can only remember the chorus words and for some reason I can't find it on the internet anywhere roll which means I can't find the artist and can't remember who it was.

Well, what a surprise, hubby remembers who sung it - Ivor Biggin D

During the 1990 Persian Gulf War, all songs pertaining to militarism were taken off BBC playlists, including things like Boom-Bang-A-Bang by Lulu and We're In The Army Now by Status Quo. During this time Massive Attack changed their name to just Massive after they were told they would not get played on the BBC otherwise.

Some more obscure bannings by Aunty; Paul Simon's Kodachrome for supposedly advertising a branded product. Similarly, Dr. Hook's On The Cover of the Rolling Stone faced a similar ban for possibly promoting the magazine. This prompted a load of CBS promo guys to go into the studio to scream the lyric "on the cover of the Radio Times" over the original. It sounded dreadful and never saw the light of day, but Kenny Everett had a copy and used to gleefully play it on his Capital Radio show.

Paul Mcartney and Wings were banned by the Beeb twice! One obvious one was for Give Ireland Back To The Irish. The second was for a song called Hi Hi Hi, which had lyrics the Beeb didn't like such as "...I'm gonna do you with my big banana." So, while Hi Hi Hi went to number one in the U.S, the BBC insisted on playing the B-side. But the joke was completely on them. The B-side Macartney chose as a joke on the BBC was a little ditty called C Moon. Unnoticed by the Beeb C Moon could easily be interpreted as "semen", particularly with a main chorus that went "C Moon, C Moon, C Moon....Are we."

The Sex Pistols God Save The Queen and the album Never Mind The Bollocks going to number one, was problematical for the banners. In those days, before the spread of Our Price and Virgin etc. many smaller towns were dependent on WH Smith for records. I well remember seeing their number one slots on their charts in the shops left blank. I heard a Radio One deejay get around the album name on the chart countdown by simply saying "....and at number one it's Here's The Sex Pistols"...which was only the second half of the album title. Some deejays would only refer to them as The Pistols (before not playing their records).

As an aside, by contrast, at some point in 1977, John Peel's producer John Walters was called into the office of Radio One controller Derek Chinnery. He wanted an assurance that Peel had not been playing any of this punk rock music. Walters had the great pleasure of telling him that for the past four programmes Peel had been playing nothing but...

Britain wasn't alone in absurd censorship. A Flock Of Seagulls song I Ran got into trouble with radio stations because it was thought it would be confused with the country Iran, at a time of sensitivity following the hostage crisis. Many deejays were instructed to call the record "I Ran so far away."

Melissa has their greatest hits signed by a Flock of Seagulls, Ali Score is an Expat.

he was at one point part of the Football Prediction League that Adeshell is currently kicking ass in.

:lol:

I think Some Candy Talking by Jesus and Mary Chain was banned by the beeb at least.