Though Joan Jett and the Blackhearts’ 1981 cover of “I Love Rock n Roll” was a number one smash hit single, she’d previously recorded the song in 1979 with two members of The Sex Pistols — Steve Jones and Paul Cook.

Hoover’s FBI attempted to censor country singer Merle Travis’ subversive worker’s rights song “Sixteen Tons” off the radio — it instead became the fastest-selling single in Capitol Records’ history.

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