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Tipper Gore drumming with Mickey Hart during a The Dead appearance in April 2009 In high school, Gore was the drummer for an all-female band called the Wildcats. [ 14 ] [ 27 ] She has played drums with members of the Grateful Dead , and during the second night of the Spring 2009 Dead tour, Tipper Gore sat in playing drums during the closing ...
Tipper Gore, co-founder of the Parents Music Resource Center in 1985. The Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC) was an American committee formed in 1985 [1] with the stated goal of increasing parental control over the access of children to music deemed to have violent, drug-related, or sexual themes via labeling albums with Parental Advisory stickers.
Tipper Gore, former wife of Vice President Al Gore, was active in several campaigns to remove material she found objectionable from popular American entertainment like movies, television shows and music, starting when her husband was a senator.
Particular criticism was placed on "Darling Nikki" by Prince, after PMRC co-founder Mary "Tipper" Gore bought the album Purple Rain for her 11-year-old daughter Karenna, unaware that the song's lyrics included an explicit mention of masturbation. [1]
Gore was born in Nashville, Tennessee, and grew up there as well as in Washington, D.C. [2]. When she was 11 years old, Karenna's mother, Tipper Gore, overheard her listening to Prince's song "Darling Nikki", which contained explicit lyrics, which inspired her mother to launch the Parents Music Resource Center, which sought to have "parental warning labels affixed to record albums that ...
An earlier version of the Parental Advisory sticker that was later used in re-issues of Purple Rain.. American social issues advocate Tipper Gore reportedly co-founded the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC) in 1985 because she witnessed her daughter Karenna, who was 11 years old at the time, listening to "Darling Nikki". [3]
Later the Parents Music Resource Center and leader Tipper Gore condemned the song as "Satanistic". Styx repeatedly and angrily dismissed these claims as baseless. Dennis DeYoung told Dallas radio show In the Studio host Redbeard that "Anyone who plays their records backwards is the Antichrist. We have enough trouble making these records sound ...
Tipper Gore (born 1948), American author, photographer, and social issues advocate, wife of former Vice President Al Gore This page was last edited on 17 October ...