Fact #39198
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Short story:
Bob Dylan walks out of The Ed Sullivan Show in New York City, USA, after being told he cannot perform his anti-segregation song Talking John Birch Paranoid Blues.
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Bob Dylan : I don't know why I walked off that show [Ed Sullivan 1963]. I could have done something else but we'd rehearsed the song so many times and everybody had heard it. They'd run through the show, you know, and they'd put you on and you'd run through your number, and it always got a good response and I was looking forward to singing it. Even Ed Sullivan seemed to really like it. I don't know who objected to it, but just before I was going to sing it they came in, and this was show time you know. They came in, there was this big huddle, I could see people talking about something. I was just getting ready to play you know ... and then someone stepped up and said I couldn't sing that song. They wanted me to sing a Clancy Brother's song, and it just didn't make sense to me to sing a Clancy Brother's song on nationwide TV at that time. So ... I just left.
(Source : Interview with Bert Kleinman, 1984)
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(Source : Interview with Bert Kleinman, 1984)