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September 11

An account of the memorandum Clear Channel circulated to its more than 1,100 radio stations on September 14th, 2001, listing 165 songs deemed 'lyrically questionable' after the September 11th attacks. The article walks through the list and its range, from Rage Against the Machine's entire catalog to John Lennon's 'Imagine.'

The Towers I Loved, and the Day They Fell

The World Trade Center towers on the Lower Manhattan skyline at twilight, 2000
Twenty-five years after September 11, 2001, I remember watching the attacks from the roof of my Lower Manhattan apartment, and reflect on how that morning changed my view of the world.