Crass’ first release was The Feeding of the 5000 (an 18-track, 12″ 45 rpm EP on the Small Wonder label) in 1978. Workers at an Irish record-pressing plant refused to process it because of the offensive and blasphemous content of the song “Asylum”, and the record was released without it. In its place were two minutes of silence titled “The Sound of Free Speech”. This incident prompted Crass to create their own independent record label , Crass Records , to retain editorial control over their material.
The Feeding of the 5000
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