I was over at LC's house this evening and some stoopid 'Top Ten' thing was on Channel4 about banned records, and there was an item about 'Straight Outta Compton'. According to this, somehow or other the Redbridge magistrate's court found itself in the position to ban the record under the Obscene Publications Act, but didn't thanks to an inspired performance by the defence. All I could find on this after a brief Google (NWA, Redbridge) was this from
Does anyone know anything more about this? Seeing as Redbridge is my neck of the woods and the old Polygram factory that was raided was just up the road from my house, I'm quite interested.
― DG, Saturday, 16 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)