A few weeks ago I was banned by FB for a week for posting the cover to the 1970s album Houses of the Holy by Led Zeppelin, because, apparently, it breached their standards on decency. I was also given a warning for posting the cover of The Game's Up by Sniff n The Tears. The context for both was in a CLOSED ROCK MUSIC group (i.e. mine and the SRS) whilst the songs were being played on air.
Now, whilst I fully accept that the covers may not be politically correct by today's standards, should we be censoring and banning album (and book and film posters for that matter) covers from yesteryear?
In the light of getting a ban and a warning over the above covers, I have been very hesitant posting other covers now. Here's a couple.
And when I look at covers from the 50s & 60s jazz scene, oh man, they make all this lot look very tame.
And look at this, freely up on FB:
I mean, REALLY!?! That's acceptable on FB but the above covers from a different era aren't!?!
I despair at the double standards: in the eyes of the "moral majority" rock is still, it would seem, an easy target, but cos gangsta is perceived to be big business, it's left alone.