Category: Music

Nightline 1985, Part 1

2013-03-30, 8:50 pm
Categories: Music, Politics, TV

Koppel interviews Zappa, Donny Osmond, and Kandy Stroud regarding -- what else? -- the Porn Wars. Uploaded by koolstrike.

Kudos in particular to Nightline for pointing out that Love for Sale was once banned from radio and Louie, Louie was investigated by the FBI for having allegedly obscene lyrics. The pro-censorship crowd argues, as always, "Well yes that was silly, but this time is completely different!" Much like people advocating video game censorship today.

Zappa also meets a potentially-unexpected ally in Donny Osmond, who is opposed to the music rating system on the simple grounds that R-rated movies make more money than G-rated ones and music ratings would be a threat to the sales of Osmond's squeaky-clean music.

Pauline Butcher Interview, Part 1

2013-03-21, 9:12 pm
Categories: Music, Politics

Uploaded by Pauline Butcher Bird herself, who says:

The Interview was made for a local radio station but it was never broadcast because it was too contentious for 1988 England (parts 3 and 4). Frank was on his final tour Broadway the Hardway though we didn't know that at the time. You can read more about why the tour collapsed in Andrew Greenaway's book, Zappa the Hard Way. Pauline had worked for Frank in California from 1968 to 1972 and has written about her experiences in her book featured above.