'Rumble' - Link Wray and The Wraymen - banned from radio play because 'it might incite riots'

Rumble is one of those songs that hit at the right place in the right time, and it influenced some of the most legendary rock musicians out there. It's is one of the best riffs ever written, and it was truly a pivotal moment in rock and roll history.
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The song was born by accident. The Ray Men were on stage in Fredericksburg, Virginia, at a “hop”. The band were asked by local DJ Milt Green, who had organised the hop, to play “The Stroll”by Canadian doo-wop group The Diamonds but guitarist Link Wray didn’t know what he was talking about.

Wray’s brother Doug, whom he described as the loudest drummer in the world, started beating out a rhythm using the wrong end of his sticks. Wray played along with a heavy sequence of chords and a vocal microphone was put in front of the guitar amp so it could be heard over the drums. The brutal sound made the kids “go ape”, according to Wray, and the Ray Men were rushed to a studio to record a song initially dubbed “Oddball”.

They struggled to replicate the sound in the studio. Wray thus punched holes into his amplifier speakers. The effect was to produce distortion that set the world alight. Kinks guitarist Dave Davies says he used a similar method of vandalism to beef up the group’s guitar sound (this was before the invention of the fuzz box).

Archie Bleyer, the boss of Cadence Records, was unconvinced by the strange record until his stepdaughter Jackie Ertel enthusiastically said that it sounded like “The Rumble”,the gang fight in West Side Story. Leonard Bernstein’s score has little in common with the malevolence of Wray’s guitar but the mood was set and the song rechristened.

The link to street violence saw the instrumental banned by radio stations after it was released. It went on to sell 4m copies as speakers rumbled across the world. (excerpt from https://ig.ft.com/life-of-a-song/rumble.html

tumbled across this looking for some Tubes songs...
Here's a great -8 minute documentary on the tune and its influence on several rock legends,
from Rhett Shull:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAF-vQcexN8