The Great Rock Labeling War
August, 1990
The Battle BeginsIn the beginning was the word and the word was sex. The war to put warning labels on record albums began in 1985, when Tipper Gore, Senator Albert Gore, Jr.'s, wife, heard her daughter play Prince's song Darling Nikki: "I met her in a hotel lobby, masturbating with a magazine." Tipper was shocked and, along with Susan Baker, wife of James A. Baker III, organized the Parents' Music Resource Center (P.M.R.C.). The influential wives prodded Congress into holding hearings...
