'Homophobic' Dire Straits hit Money For Nothing banned from radio... 26 years after its release

Daily Mail ^ | 01/14/2011 | Liz Thomas

[tutstar]

gnip

[little jeremiah]

Placemerk.

[raccoonradio]

Waters admits it in latest book

[PA Engineer]

'The societal values at issue a quarter century later have shifted and the broadcast of the song in 2010 must reflect those values, rather than those of 1985.'

Yeah. Censorship versus Freedom.

[Gene Eric]

The Left is burning books.

[Redcloak]

I'm guessing that possession of a Blazing Saddles DVD carries the death penalty in Canuckistan these days.

[POWERSBOOTHEFAN]

Why would he need to admit it? It’s rather obvious!(He’s rather creepy as well).

[Calamari]

I know that but there was still a big flap about it. Banned from a lot of high school dances and sock hops back in the day by the “authorities” of the day—parents and school principals.

[betty boop]

Can anybody still sing the song — Deck the Halls: “Don we now our GAY apparel” without thinking of something else?

Well if anybody were actually brain-dead enough, possibly so.

But such, of course, would represent the public triumph of the institutionalized abuse of the English adjective, "gay" — which evidently in recent times has been tortured into function as a noun.

This maneuver requires that any connection between "gay" and "suffering" are mutually exclusive....

Your thoughts, SeekandFind? Thank you so very much for writing!

[Alamo-Girl]

But such, of course, would represent the public triumph of the institutionalized abuse of the English adjective, "gay" — which evidently in recent times has been tortured into function as a noun.

Indeed. Thank you for sharing your insights, dearest sister in Christ!

[MikeD]

Dire Straits recorded an “edited” version that said “Little Queenie” instead. Since “Little Queenie” is also the title of an old Chuck Berry song, I’m sure that was OK.