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13 Classic Songs You Didn’t Know Were Banned
LAURA GRANDE | SEPTEMBER 1ST, 2017
“Puff the Magic Dragon” (Peter, Paul and Mary, 1962)
Reason: Alleged drug references
It wasn’t until 1970, eight years after its initial release, that “Puff the Magic Dragon” came under fire. American Vice-President Spiro Agnew believed that rock music and its “blatant drug culture propaganda” was threatening to “sap our national strength unless we move hard and fast to bring it under control.” And that little magic dragon made Agnew’s hit list (along with The Beatles’ “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”). Sure, the song references “autumn mist”, “little Jackie paper” and, well, a “dragon,” but the song’s composer, Peter Yarrow, denied that the song was anything more than fantasy.
https://www.everythingzoomer.com/arts-entertainment/2017/09/01/songs-didnt-know-banned/#:~:text=Reason%3A%20Alleged%20drug%20references,Magic%20Dragon%E2%80%9D%20came%20under%20fire.
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