Editing Lip sync (section)

===Protests by artists===
On occasion, some vocalists have protested being asked to lip sync on television programs by blatantly drawing attention to the fact they are not singing live. When [[Public Image Limited]] singer [[John Lydon]] performed on ''[[American Bandstand]],'' ''"''instead he sat on the floor of the studio, threw himself into the assembled audience, and stuck his nose into the camera while recordings over his own voice played".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.vh1.com/news/7dfay7/10-biggest-lip-syncing-scandals |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220529024423/https://www.vh1.com/news/7dfay7/10-biggest-lip-syncing-scandals |url-status=live |archive-date=May 29, 2022 |title= Watch Your Mouth! The 10 Biggest Lip Syncing Scandals In Music History|last=Runtagh |first=Jordan |date=31 January 2014 |website=www.vh1.com |publisher= VH1|access-date=2 July 2017 }}</ref> When appearing on a TV program in Detroit in 1966, [[Frank Zappa]] and his band similarly gathered on a "stage" with items from the station's props department, and asked his band members to perform "a repeatable physical action, not necessarily in sync with (or even related to) the lyrics, and do it over and over until our spot on the show was concluded", leading to a performance Zappa described as "Detroit's first whiff of homemade prime-time [[Dada]]."<ref>{{Cite web|date=2015-10-23|title=Asking Iron Maiden to lip-sync is asking for trouble, basically|url=https://dangerousminds.net/comments/asking_iron_maiden_to_lip_sync_is_asking_for_trouble_basically|access-date=2021-04-16|website=DangerousMinds}}</ref>

[[Morrissey]] protested a similar policy on the BBC music programme ''[[Top of the Pops]]'' by singing "[[This Charming Man]]" with a [[fern]] plant as a "microphone".<ref>{{cite web|last=Horner|first=Al|date=5 February 2014|title=6 Bands Making A Mockery Of Miming|url=https://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/6-bands-making-a-mockery-of-miming-20962|access-date=29 June 2017|website=NME|publisher=}}</ref> When appearing on a German music programme in 1986, English metal band [[Iron Maiden]] gave a lip synced performance of "[[Wasted Years]]" where the band blatantly swapped instruments mid-song, and at one point had three members "playing" the drums at the same time.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Lifton|first=Dave|title=Watch Iron Maiden Not Even Pretend to Lip-Sync 'Wasted Years'|url=https://ultimateclassicrock.com/iron-maiden-lip-syncing-video/|access-date=2021-04-16|website=Ultimate Classic Rock|date=22 October 2015 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="auto1">{{cite web|last=Kretsch|first=Ron|date=23 October 2015|title=Asking Iron Maiden to lip-sync is asking for trouble, basically|url=http://dangerousminds.net/comments/asking_iron_maiden_to_lip_sync_is_asking_for_trouble_basically|access-date=29 June 2017|website=Dangerous Minds|publisher=}}</ref>