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METAL: The Issues

Over the last couple of years everyone from the PMRC to Jimmy Swaggart to places that sell (some) magazines have been after metal’s scalp. Talk of concert violence, drug abuse and satanic lyrics have fueled their arguments. Our readers, being as great as they are, and not ill-informed as the Washington Wives might want to believe, are mad as hell!

June 4, 1987

METAL: The Issues

Over the last couple of years everyone from the PMRC to Jimmy Swaggart to places that sell (some) magazines have been after metal’s scalp. Talk of concert violence, drug abuse and satanic lyrics have fueled their arguments.

Our readers, being as great as they are, and not ill-informed as the Washington Wives might want to believe, are mad as hell! They’re not gonna take it anymore! The time is right to unite and fight, get things out of sight and then rock all night!

Or something.

ROCK AGAINST DRUGS:

IT WORKS!

My work as president of the Drug Busters Substance Abuse Prevention Organization puts me in contact with many people who like to blame rock ’n’ roll music for the currently overwhelming drug problem in this country. For years, rock music has been a convenient scapegoat for many of humanity’s unacceptable excesses even though music was not to blame.

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