PMRC & METAL CENSORSHIP "WE'RE NOT GONNA TAKE IT!"
By now I’m sure you’ve heard of the PMRC (Parents Music Resource Center). Well, I feel what they are trying to do is leading to censorship, and we can’t let that happen. America was discovered because certain groups of people in England were denied the right to believe in the religion of their choice.
PMRC & METAL CENSORSHIP "WE'RE NOT GONNA TAKE IT!"
When Tipper Gore and her group of Washington wives created a furor last year by holding Senate hearings on the “evil” effects of rock lyrics and demanding that rock records be rated, their primary target was heavy metal music. Dee Snider, a big headbanger kingpin, even showed up at the hearing to speak and condemn what the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC) was trying to do. But it wasn’t Just the Twisted Sister who was angered, since music personalities as diverse as Frank Zappa, John Denver and Donnie Osmond also voiced their complaints. But, of course, it was the metal fans and readers of METAL who spoke the loudest—and many of their opinions are printed in this section.
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