RHYTHM METHOD’

RHYTHM METHOD’‘There’s people making babies to my music. That’s nice.’ Barry White

RHYTHM METHOD’

The food of love has played on since man first found his beat. A million love songs later, from Brahms’ red light performances to Elvis’s gyrating hips and beyond, the world continues to get it on to music.

Rolling Stone’s Rock & Roll Daily Top Five Sexiest Songs Ever

‘Let’s Get It On’ Marvin Gaye, 1973 ❖ ‘Closer’ Nine Inch Nails, 1993 ❖
‘Darling Nikki’ Prince, 1984 ♦♦♦ ‘Like A Virgin’ Madonna, 1984 ❖ ‘Get Up
(I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine’James Brown, 1970

________ Top 10 Sexiest Songs… Not Actually About Sex___________

‘Got to Give it Up, Ptl’ Marvin Gaye, 1977 ♦♦♦ ‘Love Theme from Spartacus’
Bill Evans, 1960 ❖ ‘Body II Body’ Samantha Mumba, 2000 ❖ ‘Kickstart My
Heart’ Motley Crue, 1989 ❖ ‘A Girl Like You’ Edwyn Collins, 1994 ❖ ‘Party
Hard’ Pulp, 1998 ❖ ‘See No Evil’ Television, 1977 ❖ ‘Lit Up’ Buckcherry,
1999 ❖ ‘Lean Lanky Daddy’ Little Ann ❖ ‘The Immigrant Song ‘Led
Zeppelin, 1970 Source: Stylus magazine’s Staff Top 10

Подпись: • 1940s Due to its suggestive lyrics, George Formby's 'When I'm Cleaning Windows' is initially banned by BBC radio: 'The blushing bride she looks divine/ The bridegroom he is doing fine/ I'd rather have his job than mine/ When I'm Cleaning Windows' •1951 'Wham! Bam! Thank You, Ma'am' by Dean Martin is deemed suggestive and therefore banned from US radio • 1954 Rosemary Clooney's 'Mambo Italiano' is considered in poor taste by ABC •1955 Elvis is threatened with arrest if he moves during his performances in San Diego and Florida •1956 Cameramen are instructed to only show Elvis from the waist up on The Ed Sullivan Show •1962 Catholic kids are forbidden to dance to 'The Twist' as New Подпись: York's Bishop Burke says it is lewd • 1965 PJ Proby's invitation to perform on Shingdig is revoked following his pants splitting at a European gig • 1967 Van Morrison's original version of 'Brown-Eyed Girl' doesn't get airplay due to its content of premarital sex and teenage pregnancy •1976 RKO insists the line 'spread your wings and let me come inside' is cut before they will play Rod Stewart's 'Tonight's the Night' •1977 The Sex Pistols are denied visas for their first American tour •1981 Stations in Provo and Salt Lake City feel their Mormon audience will find 'Physical' by Olivia Newton-John too risque •1987 George Michael's 'I Want Your Sex' is banned by a number of US radio stations

BANNED

Band Names with Sexual Content

The Enormous Horns ❖ Sex Pistols ❖ Celibate Rifles ❖ The Slits ❖ Queen ❖ Tool ❖ Helmet ❖ Fanny ❖ Fudge Tunnel ❖ Revolting Cocks ❖ Machine Gun Fellatio ❖ Butthole Surfers ❖ Kiss ❖ Orgy ❖ The Four Skins

‘The way it felt between your thighs/ Pleasure that made you cry.’
Maroon 5, ‘Makes Me Wonder’, 2007

Updated: 05.11.2015 — 22:08