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A Day In The Life by The Beatles is banned by BBC tv in the UK because of its drug references.Full article:
Leonard Bernstein (composer, conductor) : Three bars of A Day In The Life still sustain me, rejuvenate me, inflame my senses and sensibilities.
Robert Fripp (guitarist, King Crimson) : One night, coming home from college, I turned on Radio Luxembourg. It was late and this music was playing and I had no idea who it was and it was actually Sgt Pepper, that incredible wind-up at the end of A Day In The Life – oh – terrified me. Shortly afterwards I was listening to, almost all at once, Sgt Pepper, the Six Bartok String Quartets, Dvorak's New World Symphony, Jimi Hendrix Are You Experienced, Mayall the Bluesbreakers with Clapton and so on and, although all the dialects were different the voice was the same and, at that time, at 21, I couldn't say no. This one night with A Day In The Life galvanised me. That was really the turnaround. I knew I couldn't go to the College of Estate Management in South Kensington.
(Source : video documentary New York – Wimborne, on YouTube)
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Robert Fripp (guitarist, King Crimson) : One night, coming home from college, I turned on Radio Luxembourg. It was late and this music was playing and I had no idea who it was and it was actually Sgt Pepper, that incredible wind-up at the end of A Day In The Life – oh – terrified me. Shortly afterwards I was listening to, almost all at once, Sgt Pepper, the Six Bartok String Quartets, Dvorak's New World Symphony, Jimi Hendrix Are You Experienced, Mayall the Bluesbreakers with Clapton and so on and, although all the dialects were different the voice was the same and, at that time, at 21, I couldn't say no. This one night with A Day In The Life galvanised me. That was really the turnaround. I knew I couldn't go to the College of Estate Management in South Kensington.
(Source : video documentary New York – Wimborne, on YouTube)