Fact #105922
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Pink Floyd release their debut single, Arnold Layne, in the UK. It is immediately banned by the BBC because of its subject matter. That night they play at The Technical College, Canterbury, Kent, England, UK, Europe.
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Joe Boyd (producer, Arnold Layne) : Arnold Layne was Pink Floyd's first single, written by Syd Barrett, and it's a story that resonates for Syd Barrett and Roger Waters because they both grew up in Cambridge and both their mothers took in student boarders, and early on they learned that girls were much neater than boys, didn't smell as much, didn't mess up the place, so they took in girl students at the local universities. That meant a lot of lingerie was left drying on the washing line in the back yard after the laundry had been done. There were incidents, as they were growing up, of items of underclothing going missing, and there was a famous case in Cambridge of somebody who was arrested for stealing these kinds of things. So this song was a tribute to this imaginary character that pilfered the lodgers' knickers and the BBC felt it was just a little bit risqu
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