{"id":4262,"date":"2013-01-10T15:45:38","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T23:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/?p=4262"},"modified":"2016-04-19T03:21:37","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T11:21:37","slug":"was-the-whos-my-generation-banned-by-the-bbc-for-being-offensive-to-stutterers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/2013\/01\/10\/was-the-whos-my-generation-banned-by-the-bbc-for-being-offensive-to-stutterers\/","title":{"rendered":"Was the Who’s “My Generation” Banned by the BBC for Being Offensive to Stutterers?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about music and whether they are true or false. Click here<\/a> to view an archive of the music urban legends featured so far.<\/p>\n

MUSIC URBAN LEGEND<\/span><\/u>: The BBC originally banned the playing of the Who’s “My Generation” because it was offensive…to stutterers!<\/p>\n

It’s important to note that among the top British acts of 1964\/1965, the Who and the Kinks stood out a bit from the Beatles and the Rolling Stones in terms of “rocking hard.” <\/p>\n

In 1964 and 1965, the Beatles were still doing mostly middle-of-the road pop songs (amazing middle-of-the road pop songs, of course) and the Rolling Stones were still doing a mix of blues songs and pop songs. <\/p>\n

Later on, both the Beatles and the Stones began to rock just as hard as the Who and the Kinks, but in 1964, the Who and the Kinks stood out in terms of how aggressive their sound was, which makes sense, as they were the front of the line of young musicians who were reacting TO the Beatles’ sound (and popularity).<\/p>\n

So when their album The Who Sings My Generation came out in 1965, it had a much harder sound than was typically played on British radio at the time.<\/p>\n

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