Since the invention of the radio and the mass production of music there have been reasons to ban or censor it, which have changed over time. Music censorship refers to the regulation of sound recordings and performances by an approved commission, such as the FCC (Federal Communications Commission). Reasons for censoring music include vulgar language, violent content, inciting hatred towards a particular religious/ethnic group, drugs or alcohol. content, sexual content, for religious reasons or for particular reasons of the time, for example some songs like "Atomic" by Blondie and "Back in the USSR", but the Beatles were temporarily blacklisted by the BBC during the Gulf War. There are many ways to censor music, such as beeping individual words or phrases, or even deleting them all together, or even editing entire bars of songs. In some cases artists are asked to change the lyrics of their songs, as in the case of the Rolling Stones' "Let's Spend the Night Together" was asked to be changed to "Let's Spend Some Time Together" because the sexual innuendo was deemed inappropriate by Ed Sullivan when the Rolling Stones were asked to perform at Ed Sullivan
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