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[–] ElectricCanabull [S] 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

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[–] cynicaloldfart 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

I'm glad Dick Clark had bigger balls than Ed Sullivan:

According to the official Ed Sullivan Show website, rehearsals for the show went well, and with 15 minutes to air time, Sullivan went to see the band in their dressing room, telling them, "You boys look great, [but] you ought to smile a little more." Shortly after, a producer from the show came by to inform the band that they needed to change the line "Girl, we couldn't get much higher" to "Girl, we couldn't get much better" when performing "Light My Fire," ostensibly because the line might be construed as referring to drugs. Band members have given varying accounts of whether they ever agreed to change the line or not, but there's no denying what happened live on the air. After a strong, but unremarkable performance of "People Are Strange," the band launched into "Light My Fire," and as the video shows, Jim Morrison sang the original lyric instead of making the suggested change.

After the show, producers said they had hoped to book them six more times, but had decided instead to ban the Doors from the show in the future. Morrison reportedly replied, "Hey, man, we just did the Sullivan show."

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[–] Thanhhangn ago 

waiting for the sun