bbc radio 1 bosses have today confirmed their decision to censor the line " faggot " from the 20 day original " fairytale of newly york " song by the pogues . the initial publicizing of the song caused outrage recently as the song had been played for 20 years without censoring , and result in many people inform the bbc say the song was " ridiculous " . the restriction was also castigated for the fact that it only extends to radio 1 and not to phase 2 or any other frequency on the bbc network .
"Fairytale of New York" does not contain the word "faggot".