This Spotify playlist has over 150 ‘offensive’ songs banned from radio after 9/11

The Beatles, Elton John and AC/DC are all heavily represented in the list (Picture: John Angelillo/UPI/REX/Shutterstock)

This week marked 25 years since 9/11, when al-Qaeda hijackers flew two planes into the World Trade Centre, another into the Pentagon and a fourth crashed in a Pennsylvania field after passengers fought back. 

The impact of the terrorist attack on culture was immediate: events and film releases were postponed, the World Trade Centre was edited out of scenes and the radio conglomerate Clear Channel issued a memorandum nix...