ALL ABOUT
Controversy greeted the Ohio Players when they released their 1975 album ‘Honey’.
The covers overt sexuality saw feminists up in arms & some retailers refused to stock the record on ‘moral grounds’.
These protests failed to harm the records sales.
To the contrary, the controversy and its iconic cover art saw the album shoot up the charts.
Sex sold.
Three decades later we live in a world where lewdness is but one click away to anyone with internet access, no longer hidden under dad’s side of the bed.
In some ironic moral juxiposition, it would be a very brave modern record executive who would sanction ‘ half naked ladies’ to grace the covers of a modern day compact disc, but yet happilly produces an album that is littered with ribald expletives, empowers the downtrodden & disaffected to rise-up against authority,then denegrades women for good measure.
Give me the care free days of Disco any day!
As we all know - nowadays nothing is new on the musical front.
The resulting effect is todays teenagers ,left struggling to establish an identity, are reduced to what could be termed 'generational theft'.
This cult feed on anger scorns the 70's Disco movement,conveniently forgetting that 'rap' and 'punk' were also creations from the late 1970's.
As harmless & quaint as these album covers may now appear, they are testimony to a different age.
A time where freedom and expression were celebrated - both the good and the bad.
An era when we could laugh at ourselves.
Let's return to a time when Disco ruled the musical jungle and no one took things hellishly seriously.
Travel back with me.
Paul Gilbert.
By the way,if you happen to have the following
album on CD, please kindly burn me off a copy.
It's just that,the record I've had appears
to have been worn out due to constant use.
