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NEWS01 October 2003 NYPD reportedly stiffs Springsteen After Springsteen played a controversial song during the Oct. 1 opening night at Shea Stadium, a high-ranking NYPD police official ordered that there would be no post-concert police escort for the Boss after his next show. Story from CBS Related reading USA: Politician seeks musician Bruce Springsteen boycott Upset with Bruce Springsteen's effort to oust President Bush from the White House, the New York Conservative Party's candidate for the U.S. Senate is launching a "Boycott the Boss" television commercial 16 August 2004 USA: Gangsta rap condemned by local police The police in Colorado Springs publicly condemned the music genre gangsta rap in a news release after a killing in July 2007, writes The New York Times 05 September 2007 USA: Bruce Springsteen's new album banned by Starbucks Because Bruce Springsteen's song ‘Reno’ describes an explicit encounter with a prostitute, the US coffee shop chain Starbucks has banned the sale of his new album 07 May 2005 NYPD reportedly stiffs Springsteen After Springsteen played a controversial song during the Oct. 1 opening night at Shea Stadium, a high-ranking NYPD police official ordered that there would be no post-concert police escort for the Boss after his next show 01 October 2003 USA: Controversial lyrics lead to concert cancellation British punk rock band Gallows were removed from the bill of The House Of Blues in California due to offence taken to their lyrics by the owner of the venue, the Disney Company 29 January 2008 Jamaica / USA: Boundaries of freedom of musical expression examined The boundaries of free speech in today's popular music culture are to be examined in a tv programme recorded in New York, USA, on 7 February 2008 22 January 2008 USA: Lebanese musician denied use of theatre Marcel Khalife often speaks for reconciliation, resulting in bans in the Middle East. Ironically one of his concerts was rejected in the US, accused of being "unbalanced". 14 October 2007 USA: Disney criticised for stopping heavy metal concerts Why has the heavy metal genre now been labeled “inflammatory” and their fans “undesirable? at House of Blues venues in Anaheim and Orlando? 11 October 2007 USA: Music tv channel bleeps the word ‘suicidal’ The American rapper Sean Kingston was afraid to feel suicidally heartbroken. But MTV and some radio stations have chosen less dramatic versions of the summer hit. 28 August 2007 USA: The US rock group Pearl Jam’s anti-Bush statement censored on webcast Parts of a Pearl Jam live concert webcast was left out by the main sponsor AT&T. When the lead singer sang “George Bush, leave this world alone” transmission was interrupted 15 August 2007