--- title: Man Banned from Playing Celine Dion My Heart Will Go On description: Authorities seized an Englishman's stereo system because he played Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On" too loudly, disturbing neighbors. canonical: https://time.com/82681/authorities-seize-speakers-from-man-who-repeatedly-blasted-celine-dions-my-heart-will-go-on/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-04-30T16:19:12.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:09:16.255Z og:title: Authorities Seize Man's Speakers Because He Won't Stop Playing Celine Dion og:description: It could not go on any longer og:url: https://time.com/82681/authorities-seize-speakers-from-man-who-repeatedly-blasted-celine-dions-my-heart-will-go-on/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Authorities Seize Man's Speakers Because He Won't Stop Playing Celine Dion twitter:description: It could not go on any longer twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Authorities Seize Speakers from Man Who Repeatedly Blasted Céline Dion's "My Heart Will Go On"  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Apr 30, 2014 4:19 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Apr 30, 2014 4:19 PM UTC He played Celine Dion too loud - now he's been silenced - how Medway Council tackled a noisy neighbour — Medway Council (@medway\_council) [April 25, 2014](https://twitter.com/medway%5Fcouncil/status/459619141721554944?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw) Authorities seized an Englishman’s stereo system earlier this month because he played Céline Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On” too loudly, disturbing the neighbors. The man, who was in his 40s, had breached a noise abatement order six times before “a warrant was obtained from magistrates and officers then seized thousands of pounds worth of equipment” including “anything that could cause more noise like his 3D TV, a laptop, various speakers, a sound docking station with iPod 32 DVDs, CDs and a PlayStation 3,” [according to a statement](http://medwaymatters.com/community-and-living/man-who-played-celine-dion-too-loud-is-silenced/) published online by Medway Council, which is in Kent, a county of Southeast England. He can apply for the equipment’s return after a month. He was also blasting James Brown’s “Sex Machine”, Apache Indian’s “Boom Shack-A-Lak”, Steppenwolf’s “Born To Be Wild”, and “You’ve Got a Friend In Me” from _Toy Story_, [the release](http://medwaymatters.com/community-and-living/man-who-played-celine-dion-too-loud-is-silenced/) says. (h/t [BBC](http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-kent-27170225)) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/82681/authorities-seize-speakers-from-man-who-repeatedly-blasted-celine-dions-my-heart-will-go-on/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/82681/authorities-seize-speakers-from-man-who-repeatedly-blasted-celine-dions-my-heart-will-go-on/"},"headline":"Authorities Seize Speakers from Man Who Repeatedly Blasted Céline Dion's \"My Heart Will Go On\"","datePublished":"2014-04-30T16:19:12.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:09:16.255Z","description":"It could not go on any longer","url":"https://time.com/82681/authorities-seize-speakers-from-man-who-repeatedly-blasted-celine-dions-my-heart-will-go-on/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Bizarre"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/82681/authorities-seize-speakers-from-man-who-repeatedly-blasted-celine-dions-my-heart-will-go-on/","name":"Authorities Seize Speakers from Man Who Repeatedly Blasted Céline Dion's \"My Heart Will Go On\""}}]}] ```