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The film follows the story of Dee Snider, John Denver, and Frank Zappa, testifying before Congress against lyrics labeling laws. The film focuses on the formation of the Parents Music Resource Center and its impact on music during 1985. It stars Jason Priestley, Mariel Hemingway as Tipper Gore, Griffin Dunne as Zappa, and Snider as himself. The ...
Daniel "Dee" Snider [1] (born March 15, 1955) is an American musician, best known as the lead singer and songwriter of the heavy metal band Twisted Sister.The band's song "We're Not Gonna Take It" reached No. 21 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart and was ranked No. 47 on 100 Greatest 80's Songs.
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.
Before Dee Snider recorded his new solo album, Leave a Scar, he’d decided to quit music entirely to focus on other creative endeavors.“I had told my family, my friends, my management, and my ...
Twisted Sister singer Dee Snider spent his weekend lashing out at supporters of right-wing Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake after the campaign for the GOP frontrunner used lyrics from his ...
Dee Snider: First of all, I'm expecting the phone to ring at any moment from RuPaul. I'm expecting the call! ... You know, before Trump, before that era, the way people socialized, there was a ...
In 1985 the member of the PMRC committee Tipper Gore (wife of Senator Al Gore), found that the song "Under the Blade" referred to "sadomasochism, bondage, and rape", promoting violence, while Dee Snider testified at the Congress panel hearings that it was "about surgery, and the fear that it instills in people", concluding that "the only ...
Dee Snider is taking a novel approach to life after rock stardom. The former singer for the '80s glam rock band Twisted Sister just released his first novel, “Frats,” about the madness ...