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TIL, after 9/11, the Clear Channel Memoradum banned 164 songs from radio airplay, such as Metallica’s “Seek & Destroy”, the Beatles “ Lucy in the Sky with a Diamonds”, AC/DC’s “TNT”, Paul McCartney and Wings “Live and Let Die”, and Rage Against The Machine’s entire catalog.

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