My song “Rocky Mountain was banned from many radio stations as a drug-related song. This was obviously done by people who had never seen or been to the Rocky Mountains and also had never experienced the elation, celebration of life, or the joy in living that one feels when he observes something as wondrous as the Perseides meteor shower on a moonless, cloudless night, when there are so many stars that you have a shadow from the starlight, and you are out camping with your friends, your best friends, and introducing them to one of nature’s most spectacular light shows for the very first time.

John Denver

“Parental Advisory: esplicit content” è uno stampino misteriosamente presente sui migliori cd delle persone perbene. Deve la sua nascita ad un gruppo di fondamentaliste cristiane, ovviamente ben innaffiate a Washington, che un bel giorno iniziarono a percepire messaggi subliminali satanici nel rock.

La Parents Musics Resources Center, l’ente creato con lo scopo di proteggere i valori della tradizione familiare americana, appiccicando il loro moderno strumento di inquisizione, aveva l’obiettivo di contrastare il succedere della musica rock, ecomplicazioni nella vita degli artisti, e nella loro produzione creativa. La fondatrice, Mary Elizabeth detta Tipper, è la moglie dell’ex-vice-presidente Al Gore, nonché premio Nobel per la Pace. Mah.

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