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The following list of songs banned by the BBC is an alphabetical list of songs that the BBC has at one stage or another, considered unsuitable for broadcasting on its radio and television stations. As the United Kingdom's public service broadcasting corporation, the BBC has always felt some obligation to standards of taste and decency, to varying levels, at different times in its history. Its "auntie knows best" attitude earned it the nickname of "Auntie BBC" or "Auntie Beeb". ==History== Files at the BBC's Written Archives Centre in Caversham, Berkshire now available for public inspection show that the Dance Music Policy Committee, set up in the 1930s, took the role of Britain's cultural guardian seriously: one 1942 directive read: The BBC's director of music, Sir Arthur Bliss, wrote wartime instructions for the committee banning songs "which are slushy in sentiment" or "pop" versions of classical pieces such as "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows", from the 1918 Broadway show ''Oh, Look!'', which made use of Frédéric Chopin's ''Fantaisie-Impromptu''; English rock band The Cougars' 1963 version of ''Swan Lake'', "Saturday Nite at the Duckpond"; or "Baubles, Bangles and Beads", from the 1953 musical ''Kismet'', which was based on the second movement of Alexander Borodin's ''String Quartet in D''. Other justifications for such bans have included the use of foul language in lyrics, explicit sexual content, supposed drug references, and controversial political subject matter.〔 The implementation of a strict ban on advertising led to the banning of The Kinks' 1970 song "Lola", while Don Cornell's 1954 song "Hold My Hand" was banned from airplay due to religious references.〔 The work of artist Ewan MacColl was banned by the BBC owing to his sympathies with communism. Satire was another reason for banning: in 1953, ten of the twelve tracks on humorist Tom Lehrer's album ''Songs by Tom Lehrer'' were banned.〔 In February 1956, the British music magazine ''NME'' reported that the theme for the film ''The Man with the Golden Arm'', recorded by Eddie Calvert, was also banned. Despite it being an instrumental, a BBC spokesman reported: "The ban is due to its connection with a film about drugs." – Billy May's version, retitled "Main Theme", was approved for transmission.〔 In certain cases, appeals to the BBC in favour of banning a song have failed to succeed or have only been partial. In 1972, Christian morality campaigner Mary Whitehouse failed in her campaign for the BBC to stop playing Chuck Berry's "My Ding-a-Ling", but a few months earlier in that year had persuaded the corporation to prevent Alice Cooper's "School's Out" from being featured on ''Top of the Pops''. Occasionally, a ban has first been imposed by an individual DJ refusing to play a particular song. In January 1984, Radio 1's Mike Read refused to play Frankie Goes to Hollywood's "Relax" on his mid-morning show, declaring it "overtly obscene", a decision which the BBC then followed except on their Top 40 show. The BBC has claimed in recent years that they no longer ban any records, as in the controversy over The Prodigy's "Smack My Bitch Up" in 1997. However, cases of direct or indirect censorship have happened; according to a BBC spokesperson, no official ban was imposed in the case of Linda McCartney's posthumous "The Light Comes from Within" despite her widower Paul McCartney running advertisements in the national press criticising a supposed ban. While the bans on some songs have been lifted, other songs have never been officially cleared for airing on BBC radio, and their status is uncertain – in some cases, records which have been banned have since been played on BBC radio without any official announcement that the ban has ended, such as The Beatles' "A Day in the Life".〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Sold On Song – Top 100 – 'A Day In The Life' )〕 BBC Radio One banned the full version of The Pogues' "Fairytale of New York" in 2007, replacing it with an edited version; however, the ban was quickly lifted due to public outcry. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「List of songs banned by the BBC」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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