What do all of the following songs have in common?
Leaving on a Jet Place by Peter, Paul, and Mary.
Great Balls of Fire by Jerry Lee Lewis.
Free Fallin’ by Tom Petty.
Learn to Fly by The Foo Fighters.
Bennie and the Jets by Elton John.
Jump by Van Halen.
and the entire catalogue of Rage Against the Machine.
(This is more a history question than a music question.)
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Just guessing here but … were they not played on radio after September 11 ?
They were all on the “do not play” list after September 11th.
Anything to do with flying, falling, fire, and anything that was deemed politically controversial.
Something to do with flying?
You’re close, but that doesn’t account for Rage Against the Machine.
They were all recorded in the same studio?
I’m almost certain it’s not that.