Despite this, in 1982, their song “Possessed“, from the album of the same name, entered a list of “banned” songs by the ...

Seizing her moment to play arenas again on her “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” farewell tour, Cyndi Lauper is unwinding the second hand back to her glory days.

leading a group of senator’s wives to form the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC) that sought to censor pop and rock music they deemed to be salacious and offensive. In the end, their efforts ...

In 1985, Tipper Gore co-founded the Parents Music Resource Center to label albums with warning stickers. But the only thing the stickers accomplished was increase sales. The BBC has also banned ...

Black also made light of the supposed “devil worship” stuff that ended up fueling the Parents Music Resource Center of the ‘80s. The seminal figure in hard rock and heavy metal was described ...

raunchy stomp “She Bop,” which would go on to become her contribution to the Parents Music Resource Center pop hit list known as the Filthy 15; and she shows off her emotional and vocal range ...

Also at the time, hysteria led to the founding of Tipper Gore’s Parents Music Resource Center. And by the time this Hysteria! gets moving, the same kind of panic is growing. His happily square ...

Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart and Tipper Gore’s Parents Music Resource Center groused about the song’s euphemistically suggestive lyrics. Gore’s group placed “Sugar Walls” in its ...

This is a sharp contrast to getting slapped with a Parent Music Resource Center sticker -– guaranteed to boost your sales, by the way, so you want that — or getting trolled on X, or the most ...

In the ’80s and ’90s, she challenged societal norms by expressing female sexuality in a way that made enemies out of the Catholic Church, Tipper Gore’s Parents Music Resource Center and countless ...

And when she took the stage at a sold-out Garden to “She Bop” — her giddy ode to masturbation that riled up the PMRC (Parents Music Resource Center) as one of its “Filthy Fifteen” in ...