10 Rock Bands That Got Banned For Stupid Reasons

10. Light My Fire - The Doors

At the start of the psychedelic rock scene, The Doors had a bit of a different trip going on. Far from their peace and love counterparts in San Francisco, the poetry of Jim Morrison was about something much more powerful, as he spoke about the elements, death, and love as if they were the exact same thing. Though Light My Fire may have lit up the charts, it all came to a halt once they went on the Ed Sullivan Show.

Being the first place the Beatles performed on American soil, Sullivan's show was known to be primarily tame and family friendly. On the other hand, the Door's show and use of the line "girl we couldn't get much higher" didn't sit well with the producers, who instructed them to amend the line before showtime. While many acts had heard this kind of thing before, Morrison had other plans.

Clad in his signature jacket and leather pants, Morrison did change a single word from the original, much to the horror of the rest of the producers. Keep in mind this was a time where making allusions to smoking pot was treated about as well as someone saying "F*ck" on a family show. After being told they would never perform on the show again, Morrison's smug "well, we only wanted to do it once anyway" etched the Doors into the middle of rock and roll notoriety.