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TIL that in 1964, a parent wrote to the US Attorney General complaining that the lyrics to “Louie Louie” by The Kingsmen were obscene. After 2 years of investigation, the FBI dissmissed the complaint because the lyrics of that recording were “unintelligible at any speed”.

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