# How Did the Beatles Get Away With It...?

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**Category:** Cafe Society
**Tags:** music
**Created:** [June 21, 2023, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-the-beatles-get-away-with-it/985890 "2023-06-21T14:35:37Z")
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### Author: ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2023, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-the-beatles-get-away-with-it/985890/3 "2023-06-21T14:55:08Z")

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I asked almost exactly the same question 2.5 years ago:

> [@Why was "Come Together" not banned by the BBC? (or was it?)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-come-together-not-banned-by-the-bbc-or-was-it/927145):
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> A famous and crazy story about the Kinks’ “Lola” is the fact that Ray Davis had to make a roundtrip from New York to London and back to redub the word “Coca-Cola” with"Cherry Cola" in order to please the BBC that didn’t want to promote a trademarked company in their programs. Now “Lola” was released in June 1970. The Beatles’ “Come Together” had been released as a double A side with “Something” only mere 8 months earlier, with the line “He shoot Coca-Cola” intact. Why wasn’t that an issue with t…

The answer then: “Come Together” actually _was_ banned by the BBC.

ETA: the cite for this from the old thread:

[https://gigwise.com/photos/104379/the-best-13-songs-that-were-banned-by-the-bbc](https://gigwise.com/photos/104379/the-best-13-songs-that-were-banned-by-the-bbc)

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