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Dad hates rock and roll
Formbyman’s mirth-inducing Bjork post on the Nature vs Nurture thread got me thinking. Everyone must have a story like that about their parents.
Here’s just one of mine. Hard to believe now, but this was something of a national cause célèbre at the time. In early 1965 three of the Rolling Stones were arrested for urinating in a garage forecourt after being refused use of the toilet. When the case came to court the garage attendant testified "when told they couldn't use the toilet Mick Jagger said 'we piss anywhere man' and the group took it up as a chant".
"After the incident they drove off in their car making a 'well known hand gesture' out the window", he continued.
Well, my mum was absolutely mortified by all this and it was decided that Rolling Stones' records would be banned from the house forthwith. This was tough luck on me as I'd just saved up my paper round money to buy their single of Not Fade Away.
Thankfully the embargo didn’t last long and normal service was resumed a few months later.
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To be honest
I think three members of a well known band urinating in a garage forecourt would still be a cause celebre today - in fact the CCTV footage would be all over YouTube.
If it was the Stones again, of course, they could just blame it on the failure of their incontinence pads.
My dad
never forgave Jarvis Cocker after his stage invasion of Michael Jackson. Remember that incident? Not that my dad was a fan of Michael Jackson, just that he thought Jarvis was being childish and rude to an established professional who had much more right to be on the stage than he did.
He got quite heated about it as I remember.
John & Yoko
My mum eventually accepted the Beatles, albeit grudgingly, but when John took up with Yoko and embarked on a series of stunts and bed-ins, well, that was a bridge too far.
“He’s gone off his head since he met that woman” she would say as John and Yoko popped up on the Six O’clock news yet again.