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Select Your Version Digital Physical. A record store clerk in Alexander City, Alabama, was cited for selling a copy to an undercover police officer in It was the first time in the United States that a record store owner was held liable for obscenity over music. The charges were dropped after a jury found the record store not guilty.
Jack Thompson, a lawyer affiliated with the AFA, met with Florida Governor Bob Martinez and convinced him to look into the album to see if it met the legal classification of obscenity. In action was taken at the local level and Nick Navarro, Broward County sheriff, received a ruling from County Circuit Court judge Mel Grossman that probable cause for obscenity violations existed.
In response, Luther Campbell maintained that people should focus on issues relating to hunger and poverty rather than on the lyrical content of their music. Navarro warned record store owners that selling the album might be prosecutable. The 2 Live Crew then filed a suit against Navarro. That June, U. Charles Freeman, a local retailer, was arrested two days later, after selling a copy to an undercover police officer.
The legal hubbub quickly propels the group into stardom around the world. The " clean " or censored version of the same album, " Clean As They Wanna Be ", saw similar attention in in what has become a classic example of Fair Use law in effect.
Interestingly enough, this song was not referred to as simply "Pretty Woman" until the release of the movie "Pretty Woman" Starring Richard Gere and Julia Roberts used the Orbison song but referred to it without the "Oh". The 2 Live Crew song, which was both clearly a parody and marketed to a different segment than the classic Orbison tune, was shown to be protected by Fair Use by the Supreme Court. Unfortunately, that's about as far as the Crew made it; Subsequent solo attempts by all artists fell short as foul language and sexually explicit lyrics became the norm for bands all across America.
A certain amount of the Crew's share of controversy was over the aforementioned frequent and blatant use of sample s. An attempt is made here to catalogue them.
Any attempt is doomed to be incomplete as the Miami Bass sound traditionally makes heavy use of samples, but something is better than nothing. Banned in the U. A - Born in the U. Webpage: 2 Live Crew Biography.
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