BBC blocks Beatles record
- Title
- BBC blocks Beatles record
- Genre
- Interview
- TX Date
- 8 Mar 1996
- Year of production
- 1996
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- Duration
- 00:00:25
- Description
- BBC Radio 1 has refused to play the new release by the Beatles, Real Love, which features an old recording of the late John Lennon (who wrote the song) with the surviving band members singing along. Conservative MP Harry Greenway finds this censorship unacceptable.
- Contributors
- Harry Greenway
- Keywords
- Censorship; BBC; Popular music; The Beatles; Real Love (song); BBC Radio 1
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LBC/IRN, "BBC blocks Beatles record". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/lbc/search/index.php/segment/0002200157006 (Accessed 12 May 2025)