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Forbidden love

The Times
The Times

Sir, Chris Campling says (Nov 23), that the song Fornicazione is Italian for Love, for which I composed the tune to Willie Rushton’s lyric, was banned by the BBC. This is not so. David Kernan sang it on TW3.

Stranger still was the song I Love the Queen, which I wrote with Dick Vosburgh also for TW3 and which was about a fellow physically in love with Her Majesty. I wrote the music and contributed just one line of the lyric: “Every time I spend a penny I see your face before me”, but Dick was responsible for the truly wonderful line: “Just the sight of your sensible shoes drives me out of my mind”.

This song was allowed on TV but then banned by the Lord Chamberlain for use in a stage revue.

DAVID LEE

Kingston upon Thames