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Sign up todayThe Fight for Free Speech: Rock Icon Dee Snider Addresses a 1985 US Senate Hearing On Music Content Labeling
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Learn moreOn September 19, 1985, a US Senate hearing was instigated by the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC)--founded by Tipper Gore, wife of Senator and later Vice President Al Gore; and Susan Baker, wife of Treasury Secretary James Baker--who wanted to introduce a parental warning system that would label all music albums containing alleged offensive material. The system was to include letters identifying the type of objectionable content to be found in each album (O for occult themes, S for sex, D for drugs, V for violence, etc.). Dee Snider, lead singer and primary songwriter for the rock band Twisted Sister, John Denver, and Frank Zappa all testified against censorship and the proposed warning system. Such a system was never implemented, but the result of the hearing brought about what was known as the "Parental Advisory: Explicit Content" label.
On September 19, 1985, Dee Snider, lead singer and primary songwriter for the rock band Twisted Sister, testified before a US Senate committee in opposition to a proposed parental warning system that would label all music albums containing alleged offensive material, suggested by the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC), an organization founded by Tipper Gore, wife of then-Senator and later Vice President Al Gore; and Susan Baker, wife of Treasury Secretary James Baker.
On September 19, 1985, Dee Snider, lead singer and primary songwriter for the rock band Twisted Sister, testified before a US Senate committee in opposition to a proposed parental warning system that would label all music albums containing alleged offensive material, suggested by the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC), an organization founded by Tipper Gore, wife of then-Senator and later Vice President Al Gore; and Susan Baker, wife of Treasury Secretary James Baker.
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