- published: 08 Nov 2015
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Prohibition of alcohol, often referred to simply as prohibition, is the legal act of prohibiting the manufacture, transportation and sale of alcohol and alcoholic beverages. The term can also apply to the periods in the histories of the countries during which the prohibition of alcohol was enforced. Use of the term as applicable to a historical period is typically applied to countries of European culture. In some countries of the Muslim world, consumption of alcoholic beverages is forbidden according to Islamic Law — though the strictness by which this prohibition was and is enforced varies considerably between various Islamic countries and various periods in their history.
The earliest records of prohibition of alcohol date back to the Xia Dynasty (ca. 2070 BC–ca. 1600 BC) in China. Yu the Great, the first ruler of the Xia Dynasty, prohibited alcohol throughout the kingdom. It was legalized again after his death, during the reign of his son Qi.
In the early twentieth century, much of the impetus for the prohibition movement in the Nordic countries and North America came from moralistic convictions of pietistic Protestants.
Turn it up again, we've got our aerials downtown.
On cheap car stereo's, we've got a radio downtown.
Feel the city shaking for miles around.
Kick the start and turn the dials around.
Radio, radio, radio.
Radio Shakedown.
Radio, radio, radio.
Radio Shakedown.
We cross the tracks when the sun goes down.
There's just the two of us in this town.
We'll drive all night until the sun comes 'round.
It's time to we shook the radio down.
Radio, radio, radio.
Radio Shakedown.
Radio, radio, radio.
Radio Shakedown.
In the dead of night when there's not a sound.
Just the distant rumble of the underground.
You can hear for miles and miles around.
You can start and turn the dials around, around...
Radio, radio, radio.
Radio Shakedown.
Radio, radio, radio.
Radio Shakedown.
Radio, radio, radio.
Radio Shakedown.
Radio, radio, radio.
Radio Shakedown.