That's not suitable!

The main way in which the UK government has changed censorship across the media world is the Watershed. This is deciding what and what isn't shown or played before 9pm. This effects the music industry as it stops the artists ideal idea from being heard by either altering the lyrics or making the video suitable for every age group. Probably the most common way that censorship can be achieved is when record companies get pressure from media or the government and then decide not to let the artist release their work. For example, the Sex Pistols appeared on the "Bill Grundy Show" in 1976, as shown below.

You can see form this the trouble they caused which led to EMI refusing to release "Anarchy in the UK" and the papers giving them some bad publicity the next day.

The biggest commercial censorship organisation (RIAA) Recording Industry Association of America, in 1985, had to commercially allow people to know when obscure lyrical composition was present and labelled “Parent Advisory, Explicit Content”.

A way in which concealed restrictions were criticised is when Johnny Rotten (Sex Pistols) wrote “God save the Queen” both the BBC and Independence Broadcasting Authority declared the song to be controversial at the time (1997) and banned it from all BBC broadcasting stations. The song led to accusations that it was ‘fixed’ because it only reached number 2 in the UK top 40 hits, despite the BBC wrote in March 2001 that the song has reached number 1. This also could have been a factor to the songs success as the negative attention it received made people more curious about the song, increasing sales. It can also show you how companies like this can use this technique to an advantage.