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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.
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 ...
(A full list of songs banned on the BBC can be seen here: List of songs banned by the BBC.) Some songs were banned for containing sexually explicit lyrics, or promoting the use of drugs. Some songs were banned for political reasons such as Paul McCartney and Wings song "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" in the 1970s, or in the 1980s Christy Moore ...
The BBC subsequently restricted the song to evening airplay. When the band made statements in a Daily Express interview confirming the possibility of sexual connotations in the lyrics, the BBC banned "Relax" entirely. The ban only increased interest in the single, causing "Relax" to become the number-one song in the UK two weeks later. [167] [4 ...
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.
This song uses similar orchestration to the original version, and it is about further things which were seen on a window cleaning round. The song’s lyrics were racy for the time, with a risqué allusion to homosexuality ("pyjamas lying side by side"), and was consequently banned by the BBC from being played on the radio. [2]
Most of the lyrics came from a 19th-century circus poster for Pablo Fanque's Circus Royal appearance at Rochdale. It was one of three songs from the Sgt. Pepper album that was banned from playing on the BBC, supposedly because the phrase "Henry the Horse" combined two words that were individually known as slang for heroin.
The song choice, titled “Montagem Coral: by DJ Holanda, MC TH and MC GW, consists of lyrics that, when translated to English, discuss giving young women drugs before sleeping with them.