Saturday, January 15, 2011

Ooh ... faggot's a bad, bad word...

At least in Canada.  Twenty something years ago Dire Straits performed this great song, played their video on MTV and thousands of radio stations. Won awards and everything.  Now it's verboten, at least on Canadian radio.

Elton John sang it his own self, when the song referred to him!  Uh-oh, here's the forbidden version:


Then there's always the other one.