Abba and Beatles banned by BBC


During the Gulf War, the British Broadcasting Corporation issued a list of records which were not to be played on any of its radio stations -


ABBA - Waterloo - Under Attack
AKA - Hunting High And Low
ALARM 68 - Guns
ANIMALS - We Got To Get Out Of This Place
ARRIVAL - I Will Survive
JOAN BAEZ - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
BANGLES - Walk Like An Egyptian
BEATLES - Back In The USSR
PAT BENETAR - Love Is A Battlefield
BIG COUNTRY - Fields Of Fire
BLONDIE - Atomic
BOOMTOWN RATS - I Don't Like Mondays
BROOK BROTHERS - Warpaint
CRAZY WORLD OF ARTHUR BROWN - Fire
KATE BUSH - Army Dreamers
CHER - Bang Bang My Baby Shot Me Down
ERIC CLAPTON - I Shot The Sherrif
PHIL COLLINS - In The Air Tonight
ELVIS COSTELLO - Oliver's Army
CUTTING CREW - I Just Died In Your Arms Tonight
SKEETER DAVIS - End Of The World
DESMOND DEKKER - Israelites
DIRE STRAITS - Brothers In Arms
DURAN DURAN - View To A Kill
JOSE FELICIANO - Light My Fire
FIRST CHOICE - Armed And Extremely Dangerous
ROBERTA FLACK - Killing Me Softly With His Song
FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD - Two Tribes
EDDIE GRANT - Living On The Front Line - Give Me Hope Joanna
ELTON JOHN - Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting
MILLIE JACKSON - Act Of War
J HATES JAZZ - I Don't Want To Be A Hero
JOHN LENNON - Give Peace A Chance - Imagine
JONA LEWIS - Stop The Cavalry
LULU - Boom Bang A Bang
MCGUINNESS FLINT - When I'm Dead And Gone
BOB MARLEY - Buffalo Soldier
MARIA MULDAUR - Midnight At The Oasis
MASH - Suicide Is Painless
MIKE AND THE MECHANICS - Silent Running
RICK NELSON - Fools Rush In
NICOLE - A Little Peace
BILLY OCEAN - When The Going Gets Tough
DONNY OSMOND - Soldier Of Love
PAPER LACE - Billy Don't Be A Hero
QUEEN - Killer Queen - Flash
MARTHA REEVES - Forget Me Not
B A ROBERTSON - Bang Bang
TOM ROBINSON - War Baby
KENNY ROGERS - Ruby Don't Take Your Love To Town
SPANDAU BALLET - I'll Fly For You
SPECIALS - Ghost Queen
BRUCE SPRINGSTEIN - I'm On Fire
EDWIN STARR - War
STATUS QUO - In The Army Now - Burnin' Bridges
CAT STEVENS - I'm Gonna Get Me A Gun
ROD STEWART - Sailing
DONNA SUMMER - State Of Independence
TEARS FOR FEARS - Everybody Wants To Rule The World
TEMPTATIONS - Ball Of Confusion
10CC - Rubber Bullets
STEVIE WONDER - Heaven Help Us All


information source - "The filtered war"  (New Statesman, 5 April 1991)


thanks to Chris Byers for the following email -

From: "Chris Byers" (chris@byers98.fsnet.co.uk)
To: (weed@venus.co.uk)
Subject: Gulf Tunes
Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 00:09:21 +0100

We had them all played by BFBS (British Forces Broadcasting Service) out there whilst the war was on. You can't put a good track down!

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