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Claim A says The BBC banned "This Is Halloween" for 25 years. Claim B says The BBC banned "Monster Mash" for 11 years. Claim B is true, and Claim A is completely made up.
Bobby "Boris" Pickett's graveyard dance party hit No. 1 in the US on October 20, 1962, just in time for Halloween. Across the Atlantic, it hit a wall.
Reports say the BBC banned the song in October 1962, with the reason usually given as "too morbid." Pickett remembered it a little differently, saying the BBC found it "offensive."
Even stranger, Pickett said he didn't hear about the ban until 1989, 27 years later. In his autobiography, he wrote that he had wondered why the record wasn't doing well in England but never got a straight answer.
The ban was lifted in 1973, 11 years after release. That October, the once-forbidden monster bash climbed to No. 3 on the UK chart.
The BBC's ban on "Monster Mash" lasted 11 years, not "This Is Halloween" for 25. It was lifted in 1973, and the song became a UK hit that same year.
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