Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxd!rlr From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: Dire Straits: "Money for Nothing" Censorship Message-ID: <1740@pyuxd.UUCP> Date: Sat, 21-Sep-85 14:44:14 EDT Article-I.D.: pyuxd.1740 Posted: Sat Sep 21 14:44:14 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 22-Sep-85 06:27:23 EDT References: <883@ptsfa.UUCP> Organization: Whatever we're calling ourselves this week Lines: 16 > Radio station KFOG in the San Francisco Bay area plays what seems > to be a censored version of "Money for Nothing". I haven't noticed > it on other stations yet. (Even MTV plays the "real" version.) > The part about "the little faggot" with the earring, jet plane, "that > little faggot is a millionaire" is missing. > I know the first few times I heard it on KFOG it was the whole song, but > now each time it's played, it's the "shortened" version. > Are there other radio stations that are doing this? Was more than > one version distributed (or "requested")? [KEN OLSEN] At Live Aid, Knopfler changed the words completely, referring to a "little queenie" (??) rather using the word "faggot". -- Meanwhile, the Germans were engaging in their heavy cream experiments in Finland, where the results kept coming out like Swiss cheese... Rich Rosen ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr