Songs used to get banned from the radio all the time. Back in the 20th century, banning songs was a lot more prevalent than it is today. Many songs were banned for good reason, while others were ...

Frank Zappa once provocatively asked, "If lyrics make people do things, how come we don't love each other?" This insightful question set the stage for a pivotal moment in music history. In 1985, Zappa ...

It was a graveyard smash. It caught on in a flash. And Elvis Presley reportedly thought it was trash. It's perhaps the quintessential Halloween song, Bobby "Boris" Pickettand the Crypt-Kickers' ...

There is quite a laundry list of songs that the BBC banned during The Beatles’ heyday of the 1960s. Many of those bans were warranted for the time due to their lyrical content involving drugs, sexual ...

The Beatles earned a reputation for speaking their minds. Whether they were claiming to be more popular than Jesus or crafting controversial album covers, the band was not afraid of controversy.

That’s how Lynyrd Skynyrd ended up on the list with their famous song “Tuesday’s Gone.” Despite the song having nothing to do with New York, or planes, or violence, because it referenced “Tuesday,” it ...

Serbia is the only country to take part in both Eurovision and Intervision. The United States will also be represented, by an ...

Though The Beatles were the biggest band in the world in the 1960s, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr still faced censure. Several Beatles songs were banned around the ...

Tom Jones left an audience in absolute tatters as he spoke about a controversial ban of one of his hit songs. The Welsh music legend was headlining Cardiff Castle for two nights from Wednesday (20 ...

FiveThirtyEight published a list of the songs most frequently "banned" from wedding playlists. The top five spots on the list are all taken by famous line dances like The Chicken Dance or The Cha-Cha ...

The Hong Kong government was given the green light on Wednesday to appeal a court's refusal to ban a protest song, after government lawyers cited national security concerns. "Glory to Hong Kong" was ...