Dire Straits' "Money for Nothing" Censored by the local classic rock station...

105.9 FM ^ | 2/18/14 | sff

[Kazan]

My cable provider carries "Music Choice" channels. The '80s channel took the word faggot from the lyrics.

A while back, I read the song had been banned on Canadian radio stations.

[a fool in paradise]

In fact, during Tipper Gore days, when she was furiously affixing warning labels to record albums that featured racy or offensive lyrical content, the sales of those recording would usually rocket.

Al and Tipper didn't give a sh!t and ultimately neither did many of the entertainers.

Al Gore Junior needed to get his name on the national stage for the 1988 presidential campaign. That's it.

Many of those same entertainers endorsed his 1992 VP candidacy as did MTV. They gave him even more support in 2000 including Frank Zappa's wife and kids.

[a fool in paradise]

“Is that Elton John? He’s an ol’ faggot, ain’t he?” ...and Elton John, still smiling, said, “You Southern boys will never change” and walked away.

Here's some x-rated (radio X) tape from a radio show of Elton John recording an ad for the Pink Pussycat Boutique. And he himself refers to some of the customers as faggots.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOUEjhQFUFk

There is also a blooper from the second Indiana Jones movie where Barbra Streisand is whipping Harrison Ford for all of the bad movies he'd done. She doesn't put full force into the whip action so as not to really hurt him (almost limp wristed) and Brabra says "I feel like such a faggot doing it this way."

Their outrage is quite selective.

[a fool in paradise]

Here is a poor quality copy of the Barbra Streisand footage from Indiana Jones.

http://www.avclub.com/article/watch-barbra-streisand-whip-indiana-jones-61465

I saw it publicly screened (Director Gary Marshall brought a copy of the full blooper reel with him) in Boston in the 1980s.

I was unaware that it “surfaced on the internet” in 2011 or was “only rumored to exist” until then.

[SamAdams76]

I just listened to the song on Apple Music. Fortunately, the song is unedited there.