http://www.washingtonian.com/blogs/capitalcomment/history/5-excellent-moments-from-the-senates-1985-rock-lyrics-hearing.php

5 Excellent Moments From the Senate’s 1985 Rock-Lyrics Hearing
Dee Snider sparred with Al Gore. Frank Zappa made fun of Tipper Gore’s accent. John Denver was there, too. By Andrew Beaujon
Published February 2, 2015

A People spread from Sept. 16, 1985. Susan Baker on the left. David Lee Roth on the right.

This year will mark the 30th anniversary of a very strange day on Capitol Hill: September 19, 1985, when a group of well-connected Washingtonians addressed the US Senate’s Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation about what they saw as out-of-control rock music lyrics. Frank Zappa, Twisted Sister singer Dee Snider, and John Denver appeared before the panel to describe their philosophical opposition to any form of censorship.

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Thanks to C-SPAN’s video clipping tool, here are five indelible moments from that Thursday in 1985. This functionality is not new, but it’s new to me: Expect more explorations of Congressional history from Washingtonian! Here’s the full hearing if you want to really get into it.
http://www.c-span.org/video/?69484-1/rock-lyrics-record-labeling

THE US SENATE WATCHES “HOT FOR TEACHER”

Senator Paula Hawkins of Florida has brought along a couple of videos she said “are representative of the kind of presentation which have caused the furor.” After a moment, Van Halen’s “Hot for Teacher” appears on a woodgrain TV set. Hawkins’ fumbling introduction of the band came too late to give them much joy–David Lee Roth had quit the group earlier that year.
http://www.c-span.org/video/?c4525739/us-senate-watches-van-halen

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