On this day in 1977, the BBC banned the Sex Pistols’ “God Save the Queen.” So here’s a commemorative video of the song and the moment.
Ed Kilgore is a political columnist for New York and managing editor at the Democratic Strategist website. He was a contributing writer at the Washington Monthly from January 2012 until November 2015, and was the principal contributor to the Political Animal blog.
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