History of Music Censorship
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Music Censorship in the
1960's
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1962
+ NY Bishop Burke forbids Catholic school students from dancing to "The Twist," saying that R&B and its associated dances are lwed and un-Christian.
1963
1964
1965
+  Cleveland Mayor Ralph Locher bans all rock concerts after a Rolling Stones show.
+   Rolling Stones hit "I Can't Get No Satisfaction" is banned from radio stations across the country for sexually suggestive lyrics.
1966
+  Beatles records are burnt in protest ofJohn Lennon's statement, "We're more popular than Jesus now."
+   Capitol Records recalls all copies of the Beatles' "Yesterday and Today" after complaints about the gory album cover.
1967
+   Rolling Stones alter the lyrics to "Let's Spend the Night Together" for an appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show.
+   Frank Zappa's record company removes 8 bars of "Let's Make the Water Turn Black" after an executive interprets the lyrics to refer to a sanitary napkin.
+   Van Morrison's "Brown Eyed Girl" is banned from radio stations because of reference to premartial sex and teenage pregnancy.
1968
+   Radio stations in TX ban all songs by Bob Dylan because they can't understand the lyrics
+   The Doors' "Unknown Soldier" is banned from many radio stations because of its anti-war theme
1969
+   NY police seize 30,000 copies of "Two Virgins," by John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
+   The Roman Catholic Diocese runs a two-page add in a newspaper calling for the criminal prosecution of rock musicians and for bans against "rock festivals and their drug-sex-rock-squalor culture."
+   1/2 of the country's Top 40 radio stations ban "The Ballad of John and Yoko" because the lyrics are considered blasphemous.
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