33 1/3 Reasons To Love (Or Hate) Rock 'N' Roll

November, 1987

• 1 •Naughty RockSpearheaded by the Beastie Boys, who sing about drugs and perform with a giant hydraulic penis, and by Bon Jovi and Mötley Crüe, who have been giving strippers a good name, naughty rock--the revered, historic genre explored by Jerry Lee Lewis and Jim Morrison--has returned. This even while others have been working overtime to shut rock up--others being the Parents' Music Resource Center, the Federal Communications Commission and Tipper Gore, who has written an amazingly stupid b...