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Title: The First Rock & Roll Confidential Report: Inside the Real World of Rock & Roll by Dave Marsh, Editors of Rock and Roll Confidential ISBN: 039474070X Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks Pub. Date: September, 1985 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95

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Summary: GOODBYE TO ALL THAT REVISITED
Comment: ROCK AND ROLL (now named RAP---hell of a P.C. gesture for a rockcrit who, in the latest edition of the BOOK OF ROCK LISTS, listed the Rolling Stones' 1976 BLACK & BLUE LP the"first album to fall victim to political correctness," i.e., feminist protests against that LP's misogynist ad campagin) CONFIDENTIAL bills itself as "The Voice Of The Undesirable Element," and, truth to tell, on such issues as music censorship, the newsletter does often serve a useful purpose. Unfortunately, the newsletter is too often a retro-acid flashback to the male-left rhetoric that destroyed the 60's radical movement. For example, in this book, RRC disses and demonizes "women's music" artist Cris Williamson with the viciousness the U.S. government demonizes its enemines (RRC compares her to Cambodia's murderous leader, Pol Pot---which, to me is like George Bush Sr. calling Saddam Hussein worse than Hitler). And elsewhere, Marsh and his RRC cohorts rake the New York branch of NOW (the National Orginization for Women) over the hot coals for criticizing Bruce Springsteen's use of the term "little girl" in his songs. Now, if this meant that Marsh & Co. were taking a consistent stand against "the tyrrany of political correctness," I'd respectfully agree to disagree----but in the same book, they voice staunch support for a similar campaign against the 80's heavy-metal group Def Leppard by a Hispanic-rights group for calling Latin-American immigrants "greasy Mexicans." Mexicans." I guess that in what they call "The Rock & Roll Confidential Era," Mexican-Americans have made it the ranks of Downtrodden & Oppressed, but women haven't. RRC owes NOW or Def Leppard (or both) and the politically conscious everywhere an apology for one of the most naked examples of hyprocisy ever to come from a group calling itself "progressive."