I'll start with the Soviet Union ...

The list of prohibited in the USSR music groups and artists
An annotated list of foreign music groups and artists, whose works are ideologically and morally harmful products
on January 10, 1985
For official use

more than 100 well-known artists in the list, here are the most interesting:

"AC/DC" - neo-fascism, violence
"Iron Maiden" - violence, religious obscurantism
"Judas Priest" - anti-communism, racism
"Metallica" - anti-communism, depravity
"Manowar" - anti-communism, satanism
Ozzy Osbourne - satanism
Prince - apolitical
(A little more on the wording for the Prince: Creativity - a mixture of pornography, apolitical, and even nuclear war propaganda)
"U2" - militarism, anti-Sovietism
"B-52" - violence, militarism
"Blondie" - violence
"Van Halen" - anti-Sovietism
"Depeche Mode" - apolitical
Donna Summer - eroticism
"Culture Club" - homosexuality, anti-culture
Michael Jackson - apolitical, occultism
"Madness" - violence
'Motorhead" - moral turpitude,
"Nazareth" - violence, sadism, religious obscurantism,
"Pink Floyd" - a distortion of Soviet foreign policy.
Rod Stewart - eroticism,
"Scorpions" - violence
Tina Turner - sex

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Do you know anything about the "artists banned" in other countries?

I read about this awhile back!, man they where banning for just about everything

Good lawd.. Van Halen anti-sovietism?

Tina Turner for sex....

lawd

The reasons for Van Halen and Tina Turner were ridiculous. The Soviet Union is no more but what a weird time...

[Edited 12/5/12 13:04pm]

Gunsnhalen said:

I read about this awhile back!, man they where banning for just about everything

you have not seen the detailed

"Metallica". Speaking to journalists, the group leader expressed his "creed" as follows: "... Drink and girls, drugs and money, the main thing - money - that's what we care about." The most famous song - "Slow Death" was included in the last anti-communist album "Music for the people."

Ozzy Osbourne. A classic example of mental health problems and the collapse of the personality at the person for a long time to rotate in show business.

Michael Jackson. Is the personification of the American abnormal lifestyle.

etc.

^ Yeah the reason for Michael was a head scratcher...

And how many USSR bands were promoted in the States???

Just saying!!!

jfrost said:

And how many USSR bands were promoted in the States???

Just saying!!!

lol good point

jfrost said:

And how many USSR bands were promoted in the States???

Just saying!!!

And how many Russian bands are promoted in the States in 2012???

be popular in the West for USSR artists was dangerous.

Even the artists of the famous Russian ballet went on international tour, accompanied by the KGB

Soviet artists were popular in the countries of the socialist camp, it's a lot of countries, actually.
+ They played music on the languages ​​of the Soviet peoples (not English), so their potential audience is not as wide.

Prince - apolitical: Ronnie Talk To Russia, Free, Party Up...I know I'm missing a few

Michael Jackson - occult: Gotta be the Thriller video. Can't think of any other song he did at that point that comes close.

Within the state, too, were the revolutionary artists and songs in the late 80's, unwanted regime .... but they were in Russian.
Viktor Tsoi died in a car accident at age 28, in 1990

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg7BFXss1hE