HW & censorship

[christmu at EUNET.NO]

>From a strange urge to find Hawkwind in NME:
http://www.nme.com/scripts/frameserver.cgi?http://nme.com/main.html in NME
Nov. 9, 98.....

Christian
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COME HEAR THE BANNED
In the wake of American and Australian attempts to ban MARILYN MANSON comes
Smashed Hits: Banned Music Of The World from international free speech
magazine Index On Censorship.

Looking at the history of censorship of rock, rap and classical music, the
book also includes a compilation CD of banned tracks from artists as
diverse as HAWKWIND and the TIBETAN SINGING NUNS. The book ranges from an
interview with exiled Kurdish musician Sivan Perwer, while South African
musician JOHNNY CLEGG meets a former music censor who banned his recordings
under the Apartheid regime.

Tracks on the CD include Hawkwind's 'Urban Guerilla', a satire on early 70s
radical chic that was released in 1972 during the week that the IRA
launched a bombing campaign in London and was subsequently withdrawn; 'Two
Thumbs' by Bedfordshire sound system EXODUS, who had their gear confiscated
by police in what they allege was a long running campaign of harassment;
'Sorrow Tears And Blood' by FELA KUTI, a critic of the regime in Nigeria
who was repeatedly jailed for his stance.

The book and CD are available on November 20. See NME dated November 21 for
more on this story.

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