Dee Snider’s PMRC Senate Hearing Speech From 1985

September 23, 2015 Stig G. Nordahl Spotlight 0

30 years ago today (September 19) was the day Frank Zappa, John Denver and Dee Snider from Twisted Sister were called to testify at a Senate hearing. The hearing was instigated by the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC), who wanted to label all albums containing what they called “offensive material”. The hearings resulted in the “Parental Advisory”-sticker that you can find on new releases with so called “explicit content”.

Dee Snider’s PMRC Senate Hearing Speech (Full)

In 1985, a Senate hearing was instigated by the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC), who wanted to introduce a parental warning system that would label all ..

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Stig is the founder and the president of Metal Express Radio, based out of Oslo, Norway. He has been around doing Metal radio since the mid-eighties. In fact, running Metal Express Radio takes almost all of his time. Is it worth it...? "Most times, yes," Stig says. "My philosophy is to try to give all Metal releases a fair chance to get promoted in one way or another. As you can imagine, it can be an arduous task to listen through about 20 albums every week! Still, I know we have the best METAL dedicated radio on this planet, and that is a reward in and of itself. I hope one day the whole Metal community can and will make listening to Metal Express Radio part of their daily rituals! Yeah, right..."
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