Lyrics from Lennon's forbidden songs adorned the auditorium walls.
Beeson created one or more scrapbooks for several of his major works: Hello Out There, The Sweet Bye and Bye, Lizzie Borden, My Heart's in the Highlands, Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines, Dr. Heidegger's Fountain of Youth, Cyrano, Sorry, Wrong Number, and Four Forbidden Songs.
In areas al-Shabaab controls, says Farah, they have "forbidden song and dance because they're closer to Wahhabism than most Somalis".
As for members of the Youth League, within minutes of the judgment being handed down they were on the court's steps, giving a lusty new rendition of the forbidden song and vowing never to stop singing it.
It's a fittingly dramatic backdrop to a set which begins with five forbidding songs from recent album The Hope Six Demolition Project, before slowly ratcheting up the energy.
The day after the first Sevres meeting, tens of thousands of protesters gathered in the centre of Budapest, singing forbidden national songs.
It was here, in the 1970s and 1980s, that thousands of black South Africans would come to bury the fallen, singing forbidden struggle songs and firing guns in a show of defiance against the apartheid regime.Today the place is deserted.
The council limited relations between monks and laymen and ruled that secular activities were impermissible for monks: secular business and secular songs were both forbidden, especially "ludicrous songs".
The people always stood up for the last song, and the Soviets tried to forbid the song, but they didn't succeed.
He sought out only things that would fortify his inner world – St Thomas Aquinas and the architecture of Filippo Brunelleschi were two favourite sources – while those things that simply cross everybody's path, such as the latest novel, exhibition or (God forbid) pop song, held no interest for him.
At Decin, in the north, they sang the forbidden "Horst Wessel" song, while Czech police helplessly looked on.
