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TIL Rage Against The Machine was told to censor their song, “Killing In The Name” when playing it live on the BBC. They started out censoring it, but towards the end of the song “Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me!” was repeated 5 times live before the BBC shut off the broadcast.

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