Professor of Music Gordon Thomposon discussed an episode in music history when on the same day the Beatles released their album Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band and the BBC announced that the band would represent the UK in the world's first global television broadcast. Simultaneously, the BBC censors were deciding to ban the recording "A Day in the Life" believing that the song promoted drug use. Thomposon situates the decision to block the broadcast of one of the most important recordings of the 20th century at the intersection of culture, politics, and semiotics.