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Zappa and Dee Snider School the Senate

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This is a photo of Frank Zappa and Dee Snider holding up their summonses to speak at the Senate. In the mid-1980s, Washington’s Parents Music Resource Center had put together a list of artists and musicians that they deemed as obscene, and pushed for warning labels on records with sexual or violent content. Musicians the world over were enraged at this act of censorship, and several of the biggest names in music (of all time, not just the 80s) spoke before the US Senate about the issue. The politicians had no idea what they were in for, and sorely underestimated the rockers as dumb, possibly drug-addled inarticulate buffoons — and hoped they would react with anger and aggression to the senators’ questions, thereby proving the Parents Music Resource Center right. What they got instead were Dee Snider and Frank Zappa, two of the most educated, articulate, and intelligent members of the music industry.