{"id":5567,"date":"2026-07-15T13:42:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T13:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/shocking-roxanne-banned-by-bbc-at-first-release\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T13:42:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T13:42:38","slug":"shocking-roxanne-banned-by-bbc-at-first-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/shocking-roxanne-banned-by-bbc-at-first-release\/","title":{"rendered":"SHOCKING: ROXANNE BANNED BY BBC AT FIRST RELEASE!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_Fx4q01Ff7A?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>The Police&#8217;s &#8220;Roxanne&#8221; was banned by BBC for 6 months (1978) due to &#8220;prostitution&#8221; lyrics! Sales skyrocketed 400% in 2 months. LIKE &#038; FOLLOW for more! #ShockingFacts #Roxanne #ThePolice #BBCBan #MusicHistory <\/p>\n<p>Roxanne BBC ban, The Police history, controversial songs, banned music, music facts, 1978 music censorship, BBC radio restrictions, Roxanne sales boost, music controversy, hidden music history<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_Fx4q01Ff7A\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Police&#8217;s &#8220;Roxanne&#8221; was banned by BBC for 6 months (1978) due to &#8220;prostitution&#8221; lyrics! Sales skyrocketed 400% in 2 months. LIKE &#038; FOLLOW for more! #ShockingFacts #Roxanne #ThePolice #BBCBan #MusicHistory Roxanne BBC ban, The Police history, controversial songs, banned music, music facts, 1978 music censorship, BBC radio restrictions, Roxanne sales boost, music controversy, hidden [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4155150887,"featured_media":5568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10937,10935,10938,10934,10941,10940,10936,10932,10939,10933],"class_list":["post-5567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","tag-1978-music-censorship","tag-banned-music","tag-bbc-radio-restrictions","tag-controversial-songs","tag-hidden-music-history","tag-music-controversy","tag-music-facts","tag-roxanne-bbc-ban","tag-roxanne-sales-boost","tag-the-police-history","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4155150887"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}