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From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Dire Straits: "Money for Nothing" Censorship
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Date: Sat, 21-Sep-85 14:44:14 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep 21 14:44:14 1985
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> 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	


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