BBC has a long history of banning songs, with over 300 songs on the list. They have been seen to prevent certain pieces of music from airing in a lot of years, because they felt like these were not ‘suitable’ for the public. Today some of the songs have been lifted, and are airing again, while other songs have never officially been cleared for the BBC Radio, and their position is unresolved. – Some of the songs that were banned then, have been unbanned without any official motive, and then later played on the BBC radio. A typical illustration of this can, among other songs, be the song ‘A Day In The Life’ – The Beatles.
I have chosen to research why the song ‘Creep’ from the band ‘Radiohead’ got banned by the BBC.
According to the NPR (National Public Radio), for a song to banned or censored, it must contain some of the following, either strong language or depictions of violence, sex or substance abuse.
Today the song is very popular, and is giving a great amount of airtime, but in the 1990’s, BBC banned it for being too expressive about how the band views loneliness. Many fans thought that this was a ludicrous reason, because they thought that you should have the right to express your trauma in every way you would want to.
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