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Finally! I was beginning to despair. There seems to be a grain of understanding in your June Eleganza entitled "Bring Back Yours Truly.” I love music, I particularly love rock ’n’ roll. The normal sex and sensuality of rock ’n’ roll is not my beef.
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Dear John Mendelssohn:
Finally! I was beginning to despair. There seems to be a grain of understanding in your June Eleganza entitled "Bring Back Yours Truly.” I love music, I particularly love rock ’n’ roll. The normal sex and sensuality of rock ’n’ roll is not my beef. I just don’t like to see the combination of Big Business and some shameless performances utilizing the lowest demominator of graphic sex and violence to sell to (my) kids! I don’t like to see them take good ol’ rock ’n’ roll too far. They don’t have to make their lyrics and their performances so explicit that it’s pornographic! The Dead Kennedys don’t really have to bring it to 11-yearolds, do they? Well, they’re gonna get a fight bringing it to mine, and that doesn’t automatically mean I’m an uptight prude who wants to ban rock. I don’t. Of course I don’t. That whole idea is absurd. I grew up on rock, like millions of my generation.