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Quoting the Beatles’ press officer, Derek Taylor said: "It’s incredible. Here are these four boys from Liverpool. They’re rude, they’re profane, they’re vulgar, and they’ve taken over the world. It’s as if they had founded a new religion. They’re completely anti-Christ. I mean I am anti-Christ as well, but they’re so anti-Christ, they shock me." To accept Lennon’s “freer” society of nudity, sex on demand, pornography, and drugs is to accept anarchy, slavery, and death. While protesting the corruption and drug messages we should encourage record companies to emphasize the higher, purer, and warmer themes of life. God, home, country, true love, caring, faithfulness, work ethic, study ethic, honesty are in. Perversion of all forms is out ... Pink Floyd suggesting suicide, the Village People preaching homosexuality, Prince advocating incest and lewdness, Alice Cooper singing about making love to the dead, and Dr. Hook making love to boys and animals ... Johnny Rotten’s “Anarchy in the U.K.” went to the top of the charts. The song says that he is an anti-Christ, and an anarchist who desires to kill and “bring anarchy in the U.K.” Punk rock nearly brought anarchy to the USA, too! John W. Hinckley, Jr. was hooked on punk rock, he attended a concert by his current favorite, a punk rock group called the Kamikaze Klones, who played such songs as “Death Can Be Fun,” and “Psycho Killer.” ... Disco rock is sometimes referred to as “sex rock” although rock music also is certainly “sex rock.” Pornography set to music is an apt definition of disco rock. ... Now we can better understand Paul McCartney’s remark in early 1965, “We
probably seem to be anti-religious because of the fact that none of us
believe in God.”