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Rock N” Roll Labeled
As Devil Music
By UAVIU OAl^Oli;
COLLEGE PARK, MD
(CPS) - Former University of
Maryland student Sharon
Sadeghian was nervous sis
she stood in front of the
school’s Hornbake Library
on an October morning last
semester.
Flanked by three friends
holding hammers and record
albums, she bravely told,the
crowd of 200 before her,
“The Lord is giving me all
the strength I need.”
Moments later, after
evangelist Tom Short preach
ed that “rock ’n roll leads to
death,” Sadeghian began
smashing a Led Zeppelin
album with a hammer. By
the time she and her friends
were done, dozens of records
were shattered on the library
steps.
Preacher Greg Anthony
announced his visit to the
University of Washington
with handbills asking,
“Could it be that someone is
trying to brainwash you
through your stereo or the
cassettee recorder that’s
plugged into your ear?”
Rock ’n roll, it seems, is
getting some hard knocks on
campuses from coast to coast
from Bible-waving, record-
burning evangelists warning
students of what Anthony,
for one, calls music’s
“Satanic influence.”
Almost out of the blue last
term, the preachers began
showing up on campuses
everywhere.
Georgia evangelist Billy
Adams, for instance, has
destroyed over $200,000 in
rock vinyl “because it
preaches the use of drugs, il
licit sex, the occult and
rebelion.”
Adams preaches on cam
puses throughout the South,
often playing music by
AC/DC, Kiss and The
Beatles to prove his point.
Jed Smock, perhaps the
dean of the campus circuit
riders, has recently added
rock ’n roll to his already-
impassioned anti-sex and
drugs sermons at schools
from Virginia to Kentucky to
New Mexico State.
Illinois State students got
to hear a last-minute debate
in November between Jeffer
son Starship guitarist Paul
Kantner and local minister
Wesley Ates. Kantner had ar
ranged the debate after Ates
had urged students to
boycott a Starship concert
and “burn your Starship
records on the front steps of
the courthouse.”
None of the anti-rockers
have trouble drawing
crowds. Some evangelists
have even enjoyed bigger
crowds by specializing in the
evils of rock.
Nick Pappis, a “Christian
record producer” from
Florida, conducts college
discussions about musicians
using symbolism and
subliminalism to “brain
wash” listeners.
Many album covers, Pap
pis explains, show occult
symbols like pentagrams,
pyramids and broken crosses
that can coerce young people
into evil deeds.
The Electric Light Or
chestra, Black Oak Arkansas
and other groups, he
charges, use backward mask
ing- recording messages
backwards on a record- to
convey demonic urges to un
wary listeners.
“Another One Bites The
Dust” by Queen, Pappis
says, actually says “Satan
must have not limit” when
portions of it are played
backwards.
Greg Anthony contends
the Rolling Stones’ “Sym
pathy for the Devil” and
“Dancin’ with Mr. D,” in
addition to songs by Led
Zepplin and AC/DC, are
similar “tributes to Satan.”
“Stairway to Heaven”
sounds like “My sweet
Satan, no other made a path,
for it makes me sad, whose
power is Satan” when played
in reverse, Anthony claims.
“We’rci concerned not on
ly with the lyrics and album
covers, but also with the
lifestyles of the musicians
and their intentions,” says
Dan Peters, who along with
his two brothers lectures
students about rock ’n roll.
“Many of the rock musi
cians today enjoy singing
about things that are im
moral and illegal, such as
drugs and sex. The Village
People, for instance, have
publicly said that they want
to make gay people more ac
ceptable through their
music.”
No one is precisely sure
why the anti-rock crusades
have appeared now.
“I guess it’s an offshoot of
the New Right and various
fundamentalist Christian
movements that have become
popular recently,” says
George Ward of Bowling
Green University’s Center
for the Study of Popular
Culture.
“I can see where a lot of
people-particularly fun
damentalist Chritians—might
say rock ’n roll is offensive,
but it’s a long way to say that
there’s some kind of plot to
convert people to Satan
through music.”
“And as far as little devils
and demonic signs on the
album jackets go,” says
cont. on p. 8
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