Word: riaa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ling ("I am to religion what a free agent is to football") to put on an audiovisual show of rock naughtiness in Washington in May. Capital movers and shakers shifted in their seats while Ling read from the works of Judas Priest. Not long after, the women heard from RIAA President Stanley Gortikov. He announced that record companies would, at their own discretion, put warning labels on certain albums: PARENTAL GUIDANCE--EXPLICIT LYRICS...
...moronic," David Geffen, chairman of Geffen Records, told TIME's Peter Ainslie. "I have no intention of carrying a warning label on my records. It's censorship. They'd have to pass a law before I would do it." Some observers of the music business believe that the RIAA acquiesced to label warnings because it did not want to ruffle feathers while lobbying for passage of a bill that would place a surcharge on the manufacture of home recording equipment and blank tape. Gortikov denies such charges and instead talks generally about "de facto censorship" and "the possible dilution...