Coming up, we’re counting down the Top 5 songs that stirred up so much controversy, for the most part, the artists themselves won’t perform them anymore. From the Beastie Boys who actually came out and apologized years later after getting married, to the Rolling Stones who own one of rock’s greatest riffs that due to some lyrics now won’t ever be heard live again, to one Heart song Ann Wilson calls hideous and creepy, to one by the Kinks that I had to bleep out certain words while talking about it because this platform would ban it. These songs were so controversial most of their creators will not play them live. Find out which songs made the list and the stories behind their taboo status, next on Professor of Rock.
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The other day the #1 hit Brown Sugar by the Stones came on my playlist. I love Keith Richards riff on that song and it spawned my thinking about songs that were big hits in their day but now are considered too controversial to play. So I thought let’s go down the rabbit hole and talk about some of these infamous songs, So there is my top 5 songs that are now taboo…
coming in at #5… So “Walk on the Wild Side,” Lou Reed’s provocative tale about the New York City underground and some of its colorful characters charted in 1973, but before that, in 1970, it was The Kinks that released, perhaps, the most famous song about a man dressing up as a woman when they released “Lola.”
Kinks leader Ray Davies wrote “LOLA” after he watched the band’s manager, Robert Wace, get plastered at a nightclub in Paris, and began dancing with what he thought was an alluring, blonde-haired woman. Ray & the rest of the band noticed the woman he was dancing with had some razor stubble, but the manager was too slap- happy & juiced to notice. To him, his dancing partner was a fantasy come true.
Ray recalled that they all left the club and went to Robert’s apartment, with Robert still hanging on to the woman that he was dancing with at the club. When they got to the flat, Robert pulled Ray aside, all excited, telling Ray that he thought he was “on to something” with the woman. They continued to party until around 6 am, and when Ray went to leave, he pointed the facial hair out to Robert. “Did you notice the stubble? Richard, still heavily inebriated, didn’t care at all.
The crazy night inspired Ray Davies to write a song where the narrator expresses his confusion about the girl he is attracted to, a girl who "walked like a woman but talked like a man," but despite the uncertainty, he finds himself captivated by her.
Ray stated that the woman’s name wasn’t “Lola,” he didn’t remember every hearing her name. He chose “Lola” because it fit into a clever sing-a-long rhyme- with the “la, la, la, la, Lola chorus. The character of “Lola” was based on the transgender who was partying with his manager, but ultimately, the song was inspired by the various drag queens the band encountered during their late-night adventures in underground clubs.
Ray talked about a guy he and the band knew named
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