List of Songs banned by the BBC
The Gulf War brought a flurry of banned songs.
Link to wiki for individual info about songs censorship.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_so ... by_the_BBC
A
* "A-huggin' and A-chalkin'" – Johnny Mercer (1946)[14]
* "Angels in the Sky" – The Crew-Cuts (1955)[15]
* "Answer Me" – Frankie Laine (1953)[1]
B
* "Baby, Let Me Follow You Down" – Bob Dylan (1962)[2]
* "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)" – Cher (1966) (banned during Gulf War)[13]
* "The Battle of New Orleans" – Johnny Horton (1959)[15]
* "Baubles, Bangles and Beads" from the musical Kismet (1953)[2]
* "Baubles, Bangles and Beads" – Kirby Stone Four (1958)[15]
* "Be Prepared" – Tom Lehrer (1953)[15]
* "Beep Beep" – The Playmates (1958)[15]
* "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" – Ella Fitzgerald (1958)[14]
* "The Blue Danube" – Spike Jones and His City Slickers (1945)[14]
* "Boom Bang-a-Bang" – Lulu (1969) (banned during Gulf War)[1]
* "Burn My Candle" – Shirley Bassey (1956)[14]
C
* "Charlie Brown" – The Coasters (1959)[10]
* "The Christening" – Arthur Askey (1943)[14]
* "Cradle Song (Brahms' Lullaby)" – Frank Sinatra (1944)[14]
* "Croce di Oro (Cross of Gold)" – Joan Regan[14]
* "Crying in the Chapel" – Lee Lawrence (1953)[14]
* "Cuddle Me" – Ted Heath featuring Dennis Lotis (1954)[14]
D
* "Danny Boy" – Conway Twitty (1959)[15]
* "A Day in the Life" – The Beatles (1967)[8]
* "The Deck of Cards" – T. Texas Tyler (1948)[14]
* "Deep in the Heart of Texas" – Bing Crosby and Woody Herman (1942)[14]
* "The Devil Is a Woman" – Herb Jeffries (1957)[14]
* "Diggin' My Potatoes" – Lonnie Donegan (1954)[9]
* "Dinner with Drac" – John Zacherle (1958)[15]
* "Don't Let's Be Beastly to the Germans" – Noël Coward (1943)[9]
E
* "Ebeneezer Goode" – The Shamen (1992)[16]
* "Ebony Eyes" – The Everly Brothers (1961)[17]
* "Eve of Destruction" – Barry McGuire (1965) (banned from usage in "general entertainment programmes")[1]
F
* "Fairytale of New York" – The Pogues featuring Kirsty MacColl (1987)[12]
* "The Foggy, Foggy, Dew" – Peter Pears (1950)[14]
G
* "The Garden of Eden" – Frankie Vaughan (1957)[14]
* "Gimme a Pigfoot (And a Bottle of Beer)" – Bessie Smith (1933)[15]
* "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" – Wings (1972)[18]
* "Glad to Be Gay" – Tom Robinson Band (1978)[19][20]
* "Gloomy Sunday" – Billie Holiday (1941)[1]
* "God Bless the Child" – Billie Holiday (1942)[14]
* "God Save the Queen" – Sex Pistols (1977)[6]
* "Green Jeans" – The Flee-Rekkers (1960)[2]
* "Greensleeves" – The Beverley Sisters (1956)[14]
* "Guess Things Happen That Way" – Johnny Cash (1958)[15]
H
* "Hank Janson Blues" – Anne Shelton (1953)[14]
* "Hard Headed Woman" – Elvis Presley (1958)[15]
* "He" – Al Hibbler (1955)[15]
* "The Heel" – Eartha Kitt (1955)[14]
* "Hi, Hi, Hi" – Wings (1972)[18]
* "High Class Baby" – Cliff Richard and the Drifters (1958)[15]
* "Hold My Hand" – Don Cornell (1954)[21]
* "Honey Hush" – The Rock and Roll Trio (1956)[15]
* "Honey Love" – Dennis Lotis (1954)[14]
* "Honeycomb" – Jimmie Rodgers (1957)[14]
* "(How Little It Matters) How Little We Know" – Frank Sinatra (1956)[14]
* "The House of the Rising Sun" – Josh White (1950)[14]
I
* "I Am the Walrus" – The Beatles (1967)[4]
* "I Can't Control Myself" – The Troggs (1966)[22]
* "I Hear the Angels Singing" – Frankie Laine (1954)[14]
* "I Leaned on a Man" – Connie Francis (1957)[15]
* "I Want to Be Evil" – Eartha Kitt (1953)[15]
* "I'll Be Home for Christmas" – Bing Crosby (1943)[2]
* "Imagine" – John Lennon (1971) (banned during Gulf War)[1]
* "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows" from the musical Oh, Look! (1918)
* "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows" – Ken Dodd (1963)[1]
* "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows" – Perry Como (1949)[1]
* "I'm Nobody's Baby" – Frankie Howerd (1948)[14]
* "In the Air Tonight" – Phil Collins (1981) (banned during Gulf War)[4]
* "In the Beginning" – Frankie Laine (1955)[15]
* "In the Hall of the Mountain King" – Nero and the Gladiators (1961)[22]
* "Invisible Sun" – The Police (1981)[23]
* "It Is No Secret" – Jo Stafford (1954)[14]
* "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels" – Kitty Kallen (1962)[14]
* "It Would Be So Nice" – Pink Floyd (1968)[22]
* "I've Come of Age" – Billy Storm (1959)[15]
* "I Want You to Be My Baby" – Annie Ross (1956)[5]
* "I Went to Your Wedding" – Spike Jones and His City Slickers (1953)[14]
J
* "Jackie" – Scott Walker (1967)[22]
* "Je t'aime... moi non plus" – Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg (1969) [24]
* "John and Marsha" – Stan Freberg (1950)[14]
* "Johnny Remember Me" – John Leyton (1961)[25]
* "Jungle Fever" – The Chakachas (1972)[26]
K
* "Keep Me in Mind" – Lita Roza with Al Timothy (1955)[14]
* "Killing an Arab" – The Cure (1979) (banned during Gulf War)[4]
* "Kodachrome" – Paul Simon (1973)[27]
L
* "La Petite Tonkenoise" – Josephine Baker (1930)[14]
* "Lazy Mary" – Lou Monte (1958)[15]
* "Let the People Go" – McGuinness Flint (1972)[23]
* "Let's Spend the Night Together" – The Rolling Stones (1967)[4]
* "Light a Candle in the Chapel" – Frank Sinatra (1942)[14]
* "Light My Fire" – Jose Feliciano (1968) (banned during Gulf War)[4]
* "Lili Marleen" – Lale Andersen (1939)[15]
* "Little Star" – The Elegants (1958)[15]
* "Lola" – The Kinks (1970)[4]
* "Love for Sale" – Cole Porter (1930)[21]
* "Love for Sale" – Ella Fitzgerald (1956)[14]
* "Love Is a Word" – Alma Cogan (1965)[15]
* "Love Is Strange" – Mickey & Sylvia (1956)[14]
* "Love to Love You Baby" – Donna Summer (1975)[13]
* "Lovin' Machine" – Wynonie Harris (1951)[15]
* "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" – The Beatles (1967)[9]
M
* "Mack the Knife" – Bobby Darin (1959)[10]
* "Made You" – Adam Faith (1960)[22]
* "Maggie May" – The Vipers Skiffle Group (1957)[14]
* "The Man with the Golden Arm" – Eddie Calvert (1956)[5]
* "Mighty Mighty Man" – Bobby Darin (1958)[15]
* "Minnie the Moocher" – Cab Calloway (1931)[14]
* "Miss You" – Bing Crosby (1942)[15]
* "The Mocking Bird" – The Four Lads (1952)[15]
* "Moonlight Love" – Perry Como (1956)[15]
* "My Christmas Prayer" – Billy Fury (1959)[1]
* "My Friend" – Eddie Fisher (1954)[14]
* "My Friend Jack" – The Smoke (1967)[1]
* "My Little Ukelele" – Joe Brown and The Bruvvers (1963)[22]
N
* "Night of the Vampire" – The Moontrekkers (1961)[22]
* "Ninety-Nine Years (Dead or Alive)" – Guy Mitchell (1961)[15]
* "Nobody Loves Like an Irishman" – Lonnie Donegan (1958)[15]
O
* "The Old Dope Peddler" – Tom Lehrer (1953)[14]
* "Old Man Atom" – The Sons of the Pioneers (1950)[15]
* "One Has My Name (The Other Has My Heart)" – Jimmy Wakely (1948)[15]
P
* "Paper Doll" – The Mills Brothers (1943)[1]
* "Peaceful Street" – Ernest Butcher (1936)[15]
* "Please No Squeeza da Banana" – Louis Prima (1963)[15]
R
* "Radio Times" – The BBC Dance Orchestra (1935)[14]
* "The Reefer Song (If You're a Viper)" – Fats Waller (1943)[15]
* "Relax" – Frankie Goes to Hollywood (1984)[6]
* "Rock You Sinners" – Art Baxter and His Rock 'n' Roll Sinners (1958)[14]
* "A Rose and a Candy Bar" – George Hamilton IV (1956)[14]
* "Rum and Coca-Cola" – The Andrews Sisters (1945)[14]
* "A Russian Love Song" – The Goons (1957)[15]
S
* "The Sabre Dance" – Woody Herman (1948)[14]
* "Sad Affair" – Marxman (1993)[23]
* "Sailing" – Rod Stewart (1972) (banned during Gulf War)[13]
* "Saturday Nite at the Duckpond" – The Cougars (1963)[2]
* "Say a Prayer for the Boys Over There" – Deanna Durbin (1943)[14]
* "The Sect Sing Sick Songs" – Downliners Sect (1965)[22]
* "Send Me to the 'lectric Chair" – George Melly (1953)[14]
* "The Shag (Is Totally Cool)" – Billy Graves (1958)[15]
* "Shall We Take a Trip" – Northside (1990)[28]
* "She Had to Go and Lose It at the Astor" – Johnny Messner (1939)
* "She Was Only a Postmaster's Daughter" – Durium Dance Band (1933)[15]
* "The Silver Madonna" – Kirk Stevens (1957)[14]
* "Sincerely" – Liberace (1955)[14]
* "Six Months in a Leaky Boat" – Split Enz (1982) (banned during Falklands War)
* "Sixty Minute Man" – The Dominoes (1951)[14]
* "The Sky" – Petula Clark (1957)[14]
* "Song of India" – Tommy Dorsey (1938)
* "So What?" – Anti-Nowhere League (1981)[9]
* "Soldier" – Harvey Andrews (1972)[29]
* "Somebody Up There Likes Me" – Perry Como (1956)[15]
* "Statue of Liberty" – XTC (1978)
* "St. Therese of the Roses" – Malcolm Vaughan (1956)[30]
* "The Story of a Starry Night" – Glenn Miller (1954)[14]
* "The Story of Three Loves" – Ray Martin (1957)[14]
* "Stranger in Paradise" – The Four Aces (1953)[1]
* "Such a Night" – Johnnie Ray (1954)[1]
* "Summer Smash" – Denim (1997)[1]
T
* "Teenage Prayer" – Gale Storm (1955)[5]
* "Tell Laura I Love Her" – Ray Peterson (1960)[17]
* "Tell Laura I Love Her" – Ricky Valance (1960)[22]
* "The Test of Time" – Robert Earl (1959)[15]
* "A Theme from the Threepenny Orchestra (Mack the Knife)" – Louis Armstrong (1956)[14]
* "They're Coming to Take Me Away Ha-Haaa!" – Napoleon XIV (1966)[22]
* "Three Stars" – Ruby Wright (1959)[15]
* "Till the End of Time" – Perry Como (1945)[14]
* "Ting Tong Tang" – Ken Platt (1958)[15]
* "To Keep My Love Alive" – Ella Fitzgerald (1956)[15]
* "Toll the Bell Easy" – Les Hobeaux (1957)[14]
* "The Tommy Rot Story" – Morris & Mitch (1957)[15]
* "Too Drunk to ****" – Dead Kennedys (1981)[31]
* "Tribute to Buddy Holly" – Mike Berry and The Outlaws (1961)[22]
U
* "The Unbeliever" – Guy Mitchell (1957)[14]
V
* "The Voice in My Heart" – Eydie Gormé (1958)[15]
W
* "Walk Hand in Hand" – Tony Martin (1956)[14]
* "Walk Like an Egyptian" – The Bangles (1986) (banned during Gulf War)[13]
* "We Call It Acieeed" – D-Mob (1988)[32]
* "We Can't Let You Broadcast That" – Norman Long (1932)[1]
* "(We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang" – Heaven 17 (1981)[33]
* "We Have to Be So Careful" – The Beverley Sisters (1953)[14]
* "We Will All Go Together When We Go" – Tom Lehrer (1959)[15]
* "Wet Dream" – Max Romeo (1969)[22]
* "When I'm Cleaning Windows" – George Formby (1936)[34]
* "Whoa Buck" – Lonnie Donegan (1959)[15]
* "With My Little Stick of Blackpool Rock" – George Formby (1937)[14]
* "With My Little Ukelele in Hand" – George Formby (1933)[14]
* "Woman Love" – Gene Vincent (1956)[14]
* "A Worried Man" – The Kingston Trio (1959)[15]
Y
* "You'll Get Yours" – Frank Sinatra (1956)[15]
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The Kingsmen-”Louie Louie”: No one really knew exactly what they were banning with this one, but they were sure it was something bad! Even the FBI tried—without success—to get to the bottom of what the band’s indecipherable lyrics really were.
Link Wray-”Rumble”: Yup, even instrumentals have been banned from radio. This particular song’s title was too suggestive of teen violence for many kings of the airwaves back in 1959.
Neil Young-”Cortez The Killer”: Many Spanish listeners didn’t appreciate the song’s criticism of one of their national heroes.
The Replacements-”The Ledge”: Fearing the Minneapolis foursome’s song advocated suicide, MTV refused to air its video.
The Rolling Stones-”Let’s Spend The Night Together”: Mick agreed to change the lyrics and ambiguously plead to spend “some time” together rather than all those sin-filled PM hours when the band performed the song on the Ed Sullivan show in 1966.
The Rolling Stones-”Street Fightin’ Man”: Yet another ‘Stones classic to make the list. Chicago radio stations refused to play the song during the Democratic National Convention in 1968 for fear that it would encourage mob violence. In an interesting twist, the single actually ended up breaking sales records in the Chicago area during the time it was banned!
The Sex Pistols-”God Save The Queen”: This “treasonous” punk classic actually made it to number one on the UK charts, though its title was removed in official documentation of the event.
The Stranglers-”Peaches”: Until the band recorded a less sexually-charged account of beach-side girl watching, UK radio wanted nothing to do with this one.
The Strokes-”New York City Cops”: Though it was recorded for the band’s debut before the attacks of September 11th, the track was left off of the American release due to feelings that it would be perceived as being too disrespectful.
The Who-”My Generation”: Roger Daltrey’s stuttered delivery of the title line led many to believe he was mimicking the impaired speech of drug users.
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music".
-Aldous Huxley
