10 Songs from the 60s You Won’t Believe Were Once Banned

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00:0010 Songs From The Sixties You Won't Believe Were Once Banned

00:04Number 10.

00:06Fortunate Son, Credence Clearwater Revival, 1969

00:10Fogarty slammed class privilege in Vietnam, stations banned it, yet films repurposed its

00:15anti-war message as patriotic wallpaper

00:19Number 9.

00:20Masters of War, Bob Dylan, 1963

00:24Dylan eviscerated war profiteers, wishing them dead

00:28Cold War stations balked, yet its ferocity remains disturbingly unforgettable

00:33Number 8.

00:34Eve of Destruction, Barry Maguire, 1965

00:38Maguire's apocalyptic protest about nukes and inequality was banned, then hit number

00:43one on the charts, proving prohibition supercharges public curiosity

00:47Number 7.

00:49Let's Spend the Night Together, The Rolling Stones, 1967

00:53The Stones' saucy invitation triggered censorship

00:56Ed Sullivan demanded lyric changes, inadvertently boosting their rebellious, scandalous allure

01:01Number 6.

01:03Louis Louis, The Kingsman, 1963

01:07The FBI absurdly investigated its mumbled lyrics for obscenity, innocuous words nonetheless provoked

01:13bans and enduring moral panic

01:15Number 5.

01:17White Rabbit, Jefferson Airplane, 1967

01:20Grace Slick's psychedelic wonderland metaphor, alarm sensors

01:24Its ascending structure and feed your head climax, cemented counterculture significance

01:29Number 4.

01:31A Day in the Life, The Beatles, 1967

01:35The BBC banned it over, I'd love to turn you on, reducing a masterpiece to simplistic drug

01:41paranoia

01:42Number 3.

01:44Strange Fruit, Billie Holiday, 1939

01:47Holiday's searing anti-lynching ballad faced bans for brutal honesty, forcing America to

01:53confront ignored, violent racial terror

01:56Number 2.

01:57The End, The Doors, 1967

02:00Morrison's Oedipal, psychedelic song horrified programmers

02:04Explicit themes and intensity made it unfit for mainstream radio interludes

02:09Number 1.

02:11Heroin, The Velvet Underground, 1967

02:14Lou Reed's unsparing depiction of addiction, mirrored by tempo surges, scared radio while society

02:21preferred denial over uncomfortable realism