![]() Creedence Clearwater Revival – Travelin’ Band.Buddy Holly and the Crickets – That’ll Be the Day.Brooklyn Bridge – Worst That Could Happen.Bob Dylan / Guns N’ Roses – Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door.The Beatles – Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.Barenaked Ladies – Falling for the First Time.Animals – We Gotta Get Out of This Place.Here are all of the songs Clear Channel wanted skipped over. It should be noted, too, that some DJs chose to play these songs, but that they were adamantly urged not to do so. The Bangles’ Walk Like An Egyptian, for example, was added for having references to the Middle East. However, some of the motives behind certain songs’ inclusion now seem ridiculous. The reasons for Clear Channel putting some of these songs on their memorandum are pretty obvious - the entire Rage Against The Machine catalog, for example, was most likely banned because their music was overly critical of America. One such entity was media corporation Clear Channel Communications (now iHeartMedia), who, three days after the attack, sent a memo to its 1,100+ radio stations with a list of songs that they deemed “lyrically questionable” and insensitive to play following the 9/11 attacks. Right after the attacks, though, many media companies began censoring art deemed insensitive or anti-American, for fear of offending or upsetting the traumatized nation. It also had a dramatic effect on the arts, inspiring many musicians and artists to confront darker themes that fans were suddenly dealing with, whether they liked it or not. and jingoistic anti-Muslim sentiment across much of the world. The tragedy – in which radical Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda flew passenger planes into both of the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon – was the deadliest terrorist attack in world history, and sparked both rampant patriotism throughout the U.S. ![]() For many Americans, the September 11 attacks are the most important cultural turning point in history.
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