Rock & Roll History - Esoterica

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Arthur pulls out the chair to his desk.
 
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LATER

Computer screen. Words flash by:

‘FILE REQUEST FOR NAME CHANGE SEARCH:
SLADE, BRIAN’
 
Arthur’s face as he searches, blue in the glow of his computer. The TV blares in the background. 

TV NEWS
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Sponsored by President Reynolds' Redeem America Committee, the campaign fundraiser headlined pop superstar Tommy Stone, and raised over a million dollars for the Committee to Prosper. Also performing on the bill, Pat Boone, the Chuck Damon Singers, and Martha Gale.


It seems that the Chuck Damon Singers, and Martha Gale are fictional but Pat Boone is not. He is a contemporary of Elvis Presley, well known for his bland, wholesome image - wearing white bucks, drinking milk and ruining great songs by singing cleaned up lyrics that were originally about the joys of greasing up some good booty. Sounding like a crony of the Bush Reynolds Administration, Pat Boone is part of the real life Presidential Prayer Team. (Scroll down) (They've archived the original entry but he was posing on that site with the man who thinks Sponge Bob is a gay threat to children. James Dobson has apparently never heard Tutti Frutti.) I think Todd had a little fun including him here as a reminder that there have always been hypocrites willing to make money off of rock and roll while pretending to be holier than Little Richard.

Here's Pat aping a famous Elvis pose. The actual album title is Pat Boone Sings Guess Who.