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NEWS: DEE SNIDER Op-Ed Story About 30th Anniversary Of The Historic PMRC Hearings

| 16 September 2015 | Reply

September 19, 1985 was a historic day for all of us who work in the music business.  That was the day that three musicians–Frank Zappa, John Denver and Twisted Sister singer DEE SNIDER–were called to testify at a Senate hearing instigated by the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC), who wanted to introduce a parental warning system that would label all albums containing “offensive material.” The system was to include letters identifying the type of objectionable content to be found in each album (e.g. O for occult themes, S for sex, D for drugs, V for violence, etc.), which resulted in the “Parental Advisory” sticker now found on new album releases with “questionable content.”

The 30th anniversary of those hearings is this Saturday, September 19.  To coincide with the anniversary, DEE SNIDER has written an Op-Ed story about his experience, which appeared today on HuffingtonPost.comhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/dee-snider/1985-pmrc-senate-hearings-then-and-now_b_8136698.html?1442323560

You can watch DEE’s entire testimony on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0Vyr1TylTE

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