European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 21, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Rock in a Roll never Dies it just fades away by Joseph f. Pisani Greenwich time i knew i was too old to Rock n Roll when i heard a song on the radio about a woman who picked up a Young dude in the rain she did t even know his name but they a made magic Quot that night in a hotel room and Well the rest was history a at least until they met again and he realized her baby had his eyes and head been used As a surrogate father. Quot wow absolutely everybody is taking about that song Quot the disc jockey panted. Quot it s climbing to the top of the charts what a message it packs Quot All i can add is a a huh. It had a Good beat and. A huh you could dance to  but i knew in my heart a it was a painful realization a that in a too old to Rock n Roll. For years i believed i d be Boogie ing at least until 74, if i had ear Drums left. Now i m not so sure. I probably should be pleased Rock n Roll is addressing the important social issues of our time and not just recording obscene remarks and satanic incantations in stereo. After All one of the great artistic debates of the 20th Century occurred recently Over whether cd and cassettes should carry warnings if they contain references to activities like sexual abuse and Demon worship a your Garden variety sociopathic pastimes. The record Industry that Paragon of american values . Profit making paraded Rock artists like guns no roses before Congress to protest this possible infringement of first amendment rights. Unfortunately no one could understand what they were saying. It was the kind of artistic controversy that will have repercussions Long after we re gone and i d compare it to the debate by our founding fathers Over whether the nation s capital should be Washington or Secaucus. In the end the Industry moguls probably figured that for the purposes of free Enterprise it was better to have artistic Freedom curtailed or at least color coded according to the appropriate indecency than to continue the fight especially after several state Legislatures started passing Laws that would permit them to stamp warnings directly onto Rock stars. There was nothing really offensive in the song about the woman who had the magical night with the nameless stranger after All she did it for love. It was just Plain stupid but you can to legislate against stupidity which is a virtue that has never stood in the Way of a top 40 hit. Re we own i what would you say Quot warning this recording contains no identifiable signs of intelligent  but let me ask the hard questions the eternal questions the timeless questions is the song about Romance in the rain really Quot Art Quot the 50s hit about the Quot one eyed one horned flying purple people eater Quot is commonly accepted As the Standard by which one judges Art in the Rock n Roll world but none of this new stuff can compare with it. Even during the Golden age of Rock n Roll a i m not sure when that was but i m sure it s Over a was Rock Ever really Quot arts Art in the sense of being around 100 years from now. Art in the Franz Schubert sense the Charlie Parker sense the Alvin and the chipmunks sense. Wasny to the idea Back in the 50s and 60s that Rock n Roll was a protest against the Art establishment now along come twisted sister and Paula Abdul and everybody wants to be an artist or at least a Quot performing  what is that anyway someone who plays the Kazoo and does dog tricks this May be Middle age speaking but it seems to me there has been a steady deterioration in Rock n Roll Over the past 20 years. It has become progressively More offensive. The problem of course is that it Sells i first realized Rock was going downhill when the recording Industry decided to include the lyrics with albums to encourage sing along i hat practice May have worked for the beatles and Simon and Garfunkel. But everyone else pretty much sounded like Tiey were attempting to communicate hidden vulgarities and it was your of to determine what they were to this Day music scholars have been unable to decipher Louie Louie and it s not for Lack of trying at one time i agreed with Danny and the Junior when they Sang Quot Rock n Roll will never die Rock n Roll is Here to stay Quot now i m not so Suie it seems Rock n Roll is in the advanced stages of terminal banality and much like the roman Empire the closer it gets to the end the More offensive it becomes Don t get me wrong there s some Good Rock n Roll in fact i recently bought a cd by a woman Tio shaved her head Bald just to be different does t she know there s millions of us Guys out Here going Bald naturally and that we truly understand the agony of being different and can relate to her pain at least she did t shave her tied because she belongs to a satanic cult and i m sure with a Chrome dome like that she has no intention of driving around picking up Young dudes in the rain i stripes _ classified your weekly marketplace name. 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