SEX, Drugs and Rock n' Roll

The cliche "Sex, Drugs and Rock n' Roll" is well know in music as being what every rockstar gold when enter the music industry. But many musicians have had there songs banned for one or the other between sex and drug uses in there song. Today i will discuss the songs in which was banned due sexual contents. Should a song be banned from having sexual contents seeing that today we can find sexual content everywhere, on television and internet? Well here is list of the song that government said yes to banning for sexual content.

Here is the list of songs that was banned;

› Jane Birkin - Je T’aime - Maybe it wasn't helped by Serge Gainsbourg singing about the joys of going "entre tes reins" - between your kidneys - i.e. up your bum (alledgedly). On top of the pops an instrumental version by "Sounds Nice" was used - 1969 & 1974

› Frankie goes to Hollywood - Relax - Sexual references - 1983

› The Au Pairs - Come Again - Referred to orgasm - 1981

› Lil Louis - French Kiss - "Heavy breathing" - 1989

› The New Yorkers - Love For Sale - "Sexual" content - 1930??

› Judge Dread - Several records with titles as Big 6, Big 7,Big 8, 10 etc - "Sexual" content - 1972 - 1975

› Ivor Biggun - The winker's song (misprint) - Sexually explicit - 1978 › Troggs - I Can’t Control Myself - The sound Reg Presley makes at the end of the song was said to be like someone climaxing. - 1966

› Rolling Stones - Lets spend the night together - Promoted promiscuity - 1967 › Cliff Richard - Honky tonk angel - Self imposed ban as "saint" Cliff didn’t know that a Honky tonk angel was a Hooker! circa ‘72 -’73.

› Adam Faith - Made You - Banned for lewdness/Sexual Content Double A-Side with "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" - 1960

› The Stranglers - Peaches - Considered "woman baiting" - 1977 › Scott Walker - Jackie - Reference to "authentic queers" - 1967

› George Michael - I Want Your Sex - banned only before the "watershed" - 1987

› Paul McCarney & Wings - Hi Hi Hi - Banned, not due to drug references but to explicit sexual lyrics - 1972

› Joe Brown & The Bruvvers' revival of George Formby's "My Little Ukelele" (1963, Piccadilly/Pye) was banned as "too risque"

› Max Romeo - Wet Dream - A song about his bedroom ceiling. No the BBC wouldn't buy that - 1969

› Donna Summer - Love to love you - Groans & heavy breathing secured the ban - 1976

› The Prodigy - Smack my bitch up - Despite denials, this single was never herd during the day - 1997

› Pete Shelley - Homosapien - "SPIN Alternative Record Guide." The book claims "Homosapien" was banned for containing the line "Homo superior in my interior."(About 1982)

› Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band - Open Your Box - From the album of the same name and B side of a single, it was banned for containing the lyric "open your legs" - 1970

List taken from www.rocklist.net