these people have in common? Well, yes, they are all musical groups, but there is something

more. Marilyn Manson is a heavy metal group who worships Satan, the Beatles were one of the

greatest Rock N' Roll bands of all time, and NWA was a hard-core rap group from the 80's.

Garth Brooks is a country singer and greatest selling performer of all time, and well, Elvis is the

king of Rock N' Roll. So what do they all have in common? All of these artists have or had

songs with indecent or obscene lyrics.

Since the dawn of musical expression, there have been people trying to stop or hinder

the constitutional right to listen and enjoy music of all forms. There were ordinary, everyday

people during the infancy of Rock N' Roll in the 1960's who made it their mission in

life to stop so-called "obscene" music like the Beatles song "Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds,"

from polluting our airwaves and minds. These groups succeeded in banning some songs from

the radio, but most of their actions were for naught, because there was no real punishment for

radio stations playing those songs labeled "obscene." By 1985, many p

anything aesthetic that can be appreciated by one person in some form or another. A plethora

I did not want to go to school, go in the boy's bathroom, and start smoking cigarettes, I just like

Campaign...). This obviously shows that music is not the cause of juvenile crime, since crime

songs promoted their son to commit suicide sued Ozzy Osborne (A Brief...). Luckily, in all

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