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63 S. Cal. L. Rev. 777 (1989-1990)
Modern-Day Sirens: Rock Lyrics and the First Amendment

handle is hein.journals/scal63 and id is 791 raw text is: NOTES Modern-Day Sirens: Rock Lyrics and the First Amendment I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions .... -Lillian Hellman1 I. INTRODUCTION I pushed B-52 and bombed 'em with the blues .... -Bruce Springsteen2 On October 26, 1984, John D. McCollum committed suicide while lying on his bed and listening to his stereo.3 When he died, John was listening through headphones to the music of Ozzy Osbourne.4 He had spent the better part of the day listening to various Ozzy Osbourne songs, including one called Suicide Solution.5 The estate of John McCollum 1. L. HELLMAN, SCOUNDREL TIME 90 (1976) (letter to the House Un-American Activities Committee). 2. Springsteen, Growin' Up, Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J. (1973). 3. Osbourne song blamed in teen's suicide, NEWSDAY, Jan. 14, 1986, at 9. 4. Ozzy Osbourne is the stage name of musician John Osbourne. Future references will be to Ozzy Osbourne. 5. The song Suicide Solution appears on Ozzy Osbourne's album titled Blizzard of Oz and is reprinted below in an effort to familiarize the reader with the song: Wine is fine but whiskey's quicker Suicide is slow with liquor Take a bottle drown your sorrows Then it floods away tomorrows Evil thoughts and evil doings Cold, alone you hand in ruins Thought that you'd escape the reaper You can't escape the Master Keeper Cause you feel life's unreal and you're living a lie Such a shame who's to blame and you're wondering why Then you ask from your cask is there life after birth What you sow can mean Hell on this earth Now you live inside a bottle The reaper's travelling at full throttle It's catching you but you don't see The reaper is you and the reaper is me Breaking law, knocking doors

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