What is Wrong with Rock? (5): Lyrics

“Rock is an open endorsement of sex permissiveness, perversion, drugs, disobedience to parents, hostility to society.”  David Ewen, “All the Years of American Popular Music” “From its beginning rock ‘n’ roll has been characterized by an almost antiliterate lyric style which at first developed organically from teenage slang (Crazy, man, crazy) and black idiom and later became somewhat contrived. Rock ‘n’ roll at its best has always been raw, sexy, a bit incoherent and never afraid of being...