“The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the
lightning ain't distributed right."
~ Mark Twain ~
Posted on 01/13/2011 7:47:32 AM PST by Impala64ssa
The 1980s song Money for Nothing by the British rock band Dire Straits has been deemed unacceptable for play on Canadian radio. In a ruling released Wednesday, the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council says the song contravenes the human rights clauses of the Canadian Association of Broadcasters’ Code of Ethics and Equitable Portrayal Code. A listener to radio station CHOZ-FM in St. John's complained last year that the song includes the word “faggot” in its lyrics and is discriminatory to gays. The broadcaster argued that the song had been played countless times since its release decades ago and has won music industry awards. A CBSC panel concluded that the word “faggot,” even if once acceptable, has evolved to become unacceptable in most circumstances. The panel noted that Money for Nothing would be acceptable for broadcast if suitably edited.
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He's done a couple of movie soundtracks (don't ask which, I just remember saying "Hunh! Mark Knopfler!").
I'm sure that he could care what PC Canadian Radio thinks of a song that he wrote and performed more than 25 years ago.
Hardly. Knopfler has had a very successful "solo" career, releasing several albums and touring regularly after the dissolution of Dire Straits in 1995.
Knopfler altered the lyrics in the live version long ago in the 90s, removing faggot and replacing it with mother trucker, mother, cowboy, monkey, etc.
Change it to poop-eaters.
That’s the edited version...
“The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the
lightning ain't distributed right."
~ Mark Twain ~
Got that right, and the closeout solo from "Tunnel Of Love" is possibly the best five minutes of music ever recorded.
Faggots.
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