This is one of my favourite Pink Floyd songs and their first single as a band!!
Would someone like to upload the video to the tracker?
Anyone have any news clippings or interviews where members of the Floyd discussed the character Arnoly Layne and what he was doing around Cambridge with womens clothes???
Location: in a midwestern-type autoplant town, waiting for the autopocalypse to come
Postby J Ed »
didnt the record get banned from some radio stations cuz a the whole transvetitism content?
nothing sells a record like a little bit of controversy
and whut a way to launch a recording career
too bad they never did any other transvestite friendly records, maybe they missed their true calling
J Ed wrote:didnt the record get banned from some radio stations cuz a the whole transvetitism content?
That's the story usually told, I think... It seems more likely that the single itself would be banned from radio play because "Candy and a Currant Bun" used the word f*ck.
Even the pirate radio station "Radio London" banned Arnold from the airwaves. It's really a rather clean song I think. As for the backstory, I've read that Arnold stole knickers from Syd's and Roger's mums while they lived in Cambridge.
Why those lyrics specifically? Was it not banned for generally being about a cross-dresser? The conservative non-progressive people at Radio 2 at the time thought it was indwecent to be broadcasting such things didn't they?
It's like an original folk ballad: lots of old drinking ballads are stories of a character's misadventures, the song title often the character's name, and the first lines about a personal quirk that leads to downfall.
The badness is in the ear of the beholder. At worst, it's about panty sniffing (Joe Boyd's description of it) or it's just a jolly tale of someone who steals underwear off washing lines.
It's like the Frankie Goes to Hollywood song "Relax". It was being played on BBC Radio 1 before one of its DJs realized what it was about and it got banned.