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N.W.A's debut album Straight Outta Compton (which had attracted controversy for its song "Fuck tha Police") includes the song "Express Yourself", which criticizes the censorship of music by radio stations, and hip-hop musicians who write inoffensive songs to target mainstream radio airplay. "Express Yourself" is the only song on the album to ...
This article lists songs and whole discographies which have been banned by the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) over the years. During its history, the corporation has banned songs from a number of high-profile artists, including Cliff Richard, Frank Sinatra, Noël Coward, the Beatles, Ken Dodd, Elvis Presley, Bing Crosby, the BBC Dance Orchestra, Tom Lehrer, Glenn Miller, and George Formby.
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Some songs were written to provoke, while others have fallen foul of misinterpretation. Lizzy Cooney picks some of the most infamous cases of musical censorship ‘Why, why, why?’ – 9 famous ...
"When I'm Cleaning Windows" is a comedy song performed by Lancastrian comic, actor and ukulele player George Formby. It first appeared in the 1936 film Keep Your Seats, Please. The song was credited as written by Formby, Harry Gifford and Fred E. Cliffe. [1] Formby performed the song in A♭ in Keep Your Seats, Please. For the single release ...
This song may have been banned from the radio because it was deemed insulting to the Queen of England, but that didn't stop people from taking it to number one on the British singles charts.
The Clear Channel memorandum contains songs that, in their titles or lyrics, vaguely refer to open subjects intertwined with the September 11 attacks, such as airplanes, collisions, death, conflict, violence, explosions, the month of September, Tuesday (the day of the week the attacks occurred) and New York City, as well as general concepts that could be connected to aspects of the attacks ...
"Lola" is a song by the English rock band the Kinks, written by frontman Ray Davies for their 1970 album Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One. The song details a romantic encounter in a Soho bar between a young man and Lola, who is possibly a trans woman or cross-dresser.