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'The Star Spangled Banner'

Dave Marsh, Vox, November 1990

WHEN SINEAD O'Connor refused to allow 'The Star Spangled Banner' to be performed at her late August concert at the Garden State Arts Center in New Jersey, she probably didn't dream of making headlines, let alone that Frank Sinatra would threaten to kick her ass and that radio stations would ban her music and call for her deportation.

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