“Well, Mr. Phillips, I believe I might have syphilis.”

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waking up the next day to read newspaper columnists describing him as “morally degenerate,” “primitive,” “lewd,” “obscene,” “suggestive” and “vulgar,” with one even saying that he looked as though he’d been doing a striptease with his clothes on. They also said, once again, that he couldn’t sing, and that he was leading kids, by way of rock and roll, into juvenile delinquency and drug-taking. The newspaper barrage went on for weeks, wherever he played. As much as the fans would scream with excitement, newspaper pundits, teachers and preachers would howl with rage.