12-04-13, 04:33 PM
From the wiki page..
"Others were banned many years after having been first aired, as was the case of The Cure's 1979 single "Killing an Arab", which was banned from BBC airplay as the first Gulf War began"
This is actually quite funny, because I used to be into the Cure and when I visited Saudi I discovered the 'tape' shops - basically knocked off music from Abba to ZZ Top. The tapes they copied onto were usually longer than the original albums so they used to stuff extra songs on there.
Consider my surprise when I heard Killing an Arab for the first time, in Saudi Arabia, sold to me by Arabs. Oh, and the lyrics they used to print with the songs were often hilariously wrong, but that one they got spot on - go figure.
"Others were banned many years after having been first aired, as was the case of The Cure's 1979 single "Killing an Arab", which was banned from BBC airplay as the first Gulf War began"
This is actually quite funny, because I used to be into the Cure and when I visited Saudi I discovered the 'tape' shops - basically knocked off music from Abba to ZZ Top. The tapes they copied onto were usually longer than the original albums so they used to stuff extra songs on there.
Consider my surprise when I heard Killing an Arab for the first time, in Saudi Arabia, sold to me by Arabs. Oh, and the lyrics they used to print with the songs were often hilariously wrong, but that one they got spot on - go figure.