10 Amazing Rock Songs That Got Banned
1. A Day in the Life - The Beatles
As the Summer of Love started to unfold and bands started to push the envelope of what could be done in rock, The Beatles still had a firm grip on their audience. Compared to the likes of Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath that would soon dominate the rock scene with a much harder edge, the Fab Four were practically the Little Rascals of the genre, always leaving you with one great song while also inching towards something slightly more experimental. Sgt. Peppers was where the Beatles made their big leap into more serious territory though, and the censors practically lined up to bat them down.
For all of the picturesque moments on this album, there were more than a few times where the BBC banned certain songs because of what they thought was drug related material, like Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds being an alleged acronym for LSD and Henry the Horse in Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite acting as a euphemism for heroin. What they missed out on in the process though turned into one of the band's greatest songs.
As much as A Day in the Life stands as the peak of John Lennon and Paul McCartney's collaboration, the lines alluding to what they claimed to be drug use pretty much buried any chance of it being played on the radio, with people singling out lines like "I'd love to turn you on" or "had a smoke...then I went into a dream." If anything, this was more of an indicator of how out of touch these stations were. While they were paranoid about what they were playing on their stations, the rock scene was progressing by the day with something even more mind expanding.