Frank Zappa once provocatively asked, "If lyrics make people do things, how come we don't love each other?" This insightful question set the stage for a pivotal moment in music history. In 1985, Zappa ...

Did you ever hear that Frank Zappa quote "If lyrics make people do things, how come we don't love each other?" Quite a point, right? Back in 1985, he and a bunch of other musicians took a firm stance ...

This 1967 Rolling Stones track was banned for fairly obvious reasons. Nowadays, songs about going to Pound Town rarely ever get banned. But in the 1960s, songs like this one were considered pretty ...

It was a graveyard smash. It caught on in a flash. And Elvis Presleyreportedly thought it was trash. It's perhaps the quintessential Halloween song, Bobby "Boris" Pickettand the Crypt-Kickers' ...

There is quite a laundry list of songs that the BBC banned during The Beatles’ heyday of the 1960s. Many of those bans were warranted for the time due to their lyrical content involving drugs, sexual ...

Authorities in China’s Xinjiang region are threatening detention over downloading, sharing or listening to a wide range of Uyghur-language songs, the AP has found. The policy was revealed in a leaked ...