Outrageous: A History of Showbiz and the Culture Wars

by Kliph Nesteroff

Other supplemental research was provided by the Victory Christian Church of St. Charles, Missouri. They prepared a rock music research packet in which they denied the Holocaust, condemned Hollywood’s “race-mixing,” referred to Martin “Lucifer” King, and accused Bruce Springsteen of singing in satanic code. The PMRC sponsored a senate hearing about lyrics and music videos. Held in September 1985, the hearing was endorsed by only two music industry notables: Mike Love of the Beach Boys and Smokey Robinson of Motown fame. Everyone else rejected the PMRC, including Hall & Oates, John Cougar Mellencamp, the Pointer Sisters, and Donny Osmond. As a child star, his group, the Osmonds, was banned in South Africa for being “drug oriented.”