"One of them was 11-year-old Karenna Gore. Back home, Karenna's mother was shocked to hear Prince sing, on the album's fifth track Darling Nikki: I knew a girl named Nikki / I guess you could say she was a sex fiend / I met her in a hotel lobby/ masturbating with a magazine. I couldn't believe my ears, said Karenna's mother, Tipper Gore."
"The PMRC organised a US Senate hearing for September 1985, its aim to increase parental controls over recorded music. Even before hearings began the PMRC had remarkable momentum: funding came from Beach Boys vocalist Mike Love and Joseph Coors, owner of Coors beer, both active Reagan supporters, and the committee gained considerable media coverage, earning support from the likes of Jerry Falwell, US televangelist and co-founder of the Moral Majority."
By May 1985 Prince's Purple Rain album had sold 11 million copies, including a copy bought by 11-year-old Karenna Gore. Karenna's mother, Tipper Gore, was shocked by explicit lyrics on the album's fifth track, "Darling Nikki," which described masturbation and sexual behavior. The vulgar lyrics embarrassed both mother and daughter and motivated Tipper Gore to act. Tipper reached across party lines to Susan Baker and, with two other politically connected wives, founded the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC). The PMRC organized a US Senate hearing in September 1985 to push for greater parental controls over recorded music and gained funding and conservative support.
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