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Songs "Banned" by Clear Channel after 9/11

Though not technically banned, Clear Channel Communications sent a memo listing 165 "lyrically questionable" songs to its 1200 radio stations immediately after 9/11, suggesting that they "might not want to play these songs." Compliance with the request varied from station to station. Given the artist, name the song appearing on the list.
Some artists have two songs listed...either one is accepted
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Artist
Song
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Alanis Morissette
Ironic
Alien Ant Farm
Smooth Criminal
The Animals
We Gotta Get Out of This Place
The Bangles
Walk Like an Egyptian
Barry McGuire
Eve of Destruction
Beastie Boys
Sabotage
Billy Joel
Only the Good Die Young
Bob Dylan/Guns N' Roses
Knocking on Heaven's Door
Buddy Holly and the Crickets
That'll Be the Day
Carole King
I Feel the Earth Move
Dave Matthews Band
Crash into Me
Don McLean
American Pie
The Doors
The End
Frank Sinatra
New York, New York
Artist
Song
Kansas
Dust in the Wind
Lenny Kravitz
Fly Away
Led Zeppelin
Stairway to Heaven
Louis Armstrong
What a Wonderful World
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Tuesday's Gone
Paul McCartney & Wings
Live and Let Die
Peter, Paul, and Mary
Leaving on a Jet Plane
Phil Collins
In the Air Tonight
Queen
Another One Bites the Dust
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Under the Bridge
R.E.M.
It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
Simon & Garfunkel
Bridge over Troubled Water
Talking Heads
Burning Down the House
Tom Petty
Free Fallin'
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Level 82
Sep 22, 2021
Lyrically questionable? They should have banned that Paul McCartney Freedom song.
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Dec 1, 2022
LOL GEG!!!!!!