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John Denver: I’ve had my experience … with this sort of censorship. My song “Rocky Mountain High” was banned from many radio stations as a drug-related song. This was obviously done by people who had never seen or been to the Rocky Mountains … Mr. Chairman, what assurance have I that any national panel to review my music would make any better judgment? … Mr. Chairman, the suppression of the people of a society begins, in my mind, with the censorship of the written or spoken word. It was so in Nazi Germany
Outrageous: A History of Showbiz and the Culture Wars
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