Post artists that were blacklisted/Blackballed

Declining to book an artist because of a history of performing while wasted, quitting a set or not showing up is not blacklisting. It's just sensible business practice.

 

I found a rough translation of the lyrics and they oppose US policy in Central America at the time, but it would be a huge stretch to say that the song was anti-American.

 

True, but it was worse than you would think. Gary's bad reputation prevented him from recording much in the way of new material, so he mostly relied on the popularity of his older recordings. Though it was released around the time he died, even his final live album for the regional Live At Billy Bob's series was considered botched and this frustrated Gary.

 

The consanguinity was not close enough to be illegal anywhere in the US. 13, however, was problematic pretty much everywhere but Arkansas.

 

I think you did the right thing, GG Allin was nuts and prone to violence. There's a dvd about him that exposes his insanity. His brother didn't help by dosing him with LSD.

 

All I remember is he did the song and was told "not to do it," but did it anyway.
The next day the S. Florida media was buzzing with "Reuben Blades sings a anti-American song in concert,"
then you see WQBA holding a rally in the Dinner Key parking lot steam rolling over a mountain of CDs,
Spanish radio will never play his music again, and how his career in S. Florida is finished.
I wonder if he returned there for a show would people remember that.

Two more, both blackballed by Berry "nobody ever leaves Motown" Gordy:

Mary Wells and Florence Ballard after leaving Motown for 20th Century Fox and ABC/Dunhill.
He tried to blacklist the Four Tops when they signed to ABC/Dunhill but it backfired on him when
"Aint No Woman Like The One I Got" became a massive hit.

 

I think that was the point!

 

After Furtwängler was de-Nazified, he came to New York on a invitation to conduct the NY Philharmonic but turned them down. RCA issued his EMI recordings here in the early 50's, London issued some things he did for Decca, his records were available. This is one of the coolest album covers on a classical album, Wilhelm on the podium in command with his name in German font rocks. The greatest conductor of all-time.



His recording (on Melodiya) of Beethoven's 9th that was recorded on Hitler's birthday in 1943 is one for the record books, brooding, angry, and intense. You need to check out the YouTube clips to see the man in action.

 

That girl (I forgot her name) rapper that flipped the bird at the camera during Madonna's Super Bowl Halftime Show a few years ago suffered the same fate. That was sheer stupidity on her behalf.

 

GG died in 1993, my friend. Were you asked to open for GG's corpse, maybe? LOL. (that would be cool in itself!).

 

I think there were 2 'Nazi Ninths', with another in 1942. I'd say the greatest document of Furtwängler's war years is the Bruckner's Ninth Symphony with the Berlin Philharmonic from 1944:

 

M.I.A. right?

 

Cat Stevens (justified)
P.F. Sloan (unjustified)

 

Maybe it's apocryphal, but I read somewhere Charlie Parker was banned from "Birldland", the NY Jazz club named after him.

In her biography of Johnny Thunders, Nina Antonia made the case that, even though the Heartbreakers were making some of the most invigorating music of the punk era, major labels wouldn't touch them with a ten pole, for obvious reasons.

 

A couple of paragraphs from the end, not apocryphal, true:
http://www.npr.org/2007/09/05/14156541/charlie-parker-bird-lives-part-2

 

It took 30 posts to get to Jerry Lee??? He was the first one that came to mind.

 

I started playing in bands seriously...in 1987...so my date might have been off...I thought it was my third band...must have been number 2. I wasn't even 21 then....we'd sit outside the bar until we'd play.

we opened for Mudhoney, Tool, Nirvana, Stone Temple Pilots, White Zombie and more...some things are a little blurry

 

Lena Horne, Burl Ives, Harry Belafonte

 

Not really a blacklist or blackball, but Lorde's "Royals" apparently has been banned by San Francisco radio stations until the end of the World Series.

 

There's nothing on Wiki about any blackballing/blacklisting of Sloan except for Dunhill Records pressuring him to sign his rights away, a common practice in those times. It does mention about three decades of physical and mental problems. How was he blacklisted/blackballed?

 

The NFL also sued M.I.A.

 

As expected and deserved.

 

The point of what? The post to which I replied claimed the Stones didn't change the lyrics and Ed Sullivan "blacklisted" them, but they did change the lyrics and appeared on Sullivan again a couple of years later...

 

Well, the NFL lost no money and suffered no harm to their reputation by M.I.A. flashing her middle digit, so to me it's just a multibillion dollar corporation trying to crush someone because they can. I do think it was stupid of her to do that, though.

 

regarding getting Elvis out of America