Pat Metheny and Jaco Pastorius

   
Artist: Pat Metheny and Jaco Pastorius

   Genre(s): 
Jazz
   

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Discography:


   
 Boston

   Year: 1975   
Tracks: 7

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BBC backs down over Pogues classic

BBC backs down over Pogues classic

BBC Radio 1 has reversed its determination to censor the classic Pogues and Kirsty MacColl song 'Fairytale of Freshly York'.
The station had decided to bleep out the word "faggot" from the song because it could be offensive to listeners.
Simply BBC 1 controller Andy Parfitt said last night: "After careful condition, I induce decided that the decision to edit the Pogues birdsong Fairy tale of Fresh York was legal injury."
Parfitt said that the song did not use the holy Writ with any "negative design".
Listen to a special program on the story behind 'Fairytale of Newly York' hither.
He said: "Wireless 1 does non play homophobic lyrics or condone bullying of any kind. It is non constantly soft to catch this right, mindful of our responsibility to our brigham Young audience. The unedited version volition be played from now on."
He continued: "I want to strain that everyone at Wireless 1 and its medicine team lease the issue of language very badly and enormous fear is taken in ensuring that offence terminology is edited from records where essential."
"I sympathise utterly, in a mood where questions around editorial standards ar at the bow, the thought behind this decisiveness. Spell we would ne'er condone prejudice of any variety, we know our audiences ar smarting sufficiency to distinguish between malice and creative freedom," said Parfitt.
He concluded: "In the linguistic context of this song, I do not find that thither is any negative purport slow the enjoyment of the words, hence the volte-face of the decision."