![]() Then, somehow, the Christian church heard wind of this and declared that Satan was burying secret messages in rock and roll records recorded backwards, to lure teens into hell. First, hundreds of fans began playing records backwards and finding garbled sounds they claimed were backmasked messages, when none were there. Our troubles begin when the public mind got hold of the concept. In fact, even Thomas Edison (he invented the phonograph record, you know) noted the effect of playing a record backwards. Backwards recording was popularized by the British invasion, particularly the psychedelic branch, and inspired by the Beatles. It's strictly an analogue method, although you can reproduce the effect digitally through editing software. “If they ever have to perform CPR, they’ll be hoping the person they’re working on doesn’t bite the dust,” St John’s Martin Wells joked when trying the song at a first aid training session.There's an actual technique called "backmasking," where you record a sound bite on tape or other medium that is running backwards. As for Another One Bites The Dust, it has continued to bring some good into the world - the solid rhythms from drummer Roger Taylor are just the right number of beats per minute to be used when applying CPR to a victim of cardiac arrest. The case was dismissed, but it was worrying all the same. Trinity Mirror / Mirrorpix / Alamy Stock Photo Queen in New Orleans, September 1981: John Deacon, Brian May, Roger Taylor and Freddie Mercury. Priest frontman Rob Halford later told Rolling Stone of his dismay over the case: “These two boys were massive Priest fans, and that made it even more heart-wrenching that this terrible combination of the night and the drugs and the booze and their state of mind turned into something quite terrible.” The parents blamed Judas Priest for including a “backwards-masked satanic message” imploring listeners to “Do it…” on their album Stained Class. In 1990, Judas Priest, heavy rockers from that noted satanic hotspot West Bromwich, were taken to court in the US by the parents of two teenagers who had attempted to take their own lives.ġ8-year-old Raymond Belknap had been successful and died from a shotgun blast the other, 20-year-old James Vance, survived but had life-changing injuries from the gunshot. This all sounds fairly ridiculous - as we know from the Bohemian Rhapsody film, Freddie Mercury's notorious parties were a lot more boisterous than sitting around "smoking marijuana". Judas Priest in 1978: drummer Les Binks, bassist Ian Hill, singer Rob Halford, guitarist Glenn Tipton and guitarist K. In their hit Another One Bites The Dust, their hidden message - in reverse - is ‘Some of us smoke marijuana’.” In their album A Night At The Opera, they sing ‘Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me’. In one of his shows, Mills announced: “The music group Queen has a message for you. Led Zeppelin Backward Masking 1983 (Televangelist) ![]() Apparently playing Led Zep’s rock warhorse Stairway To Heaven backwards brought up the lines “There’s no escaping it my sweet Satan” and “Will will sing because I live with Satan.” One of the first religious leaders to speak out against Queen’s apparent secret message was Michael Mills, Minister Of Youth And Evangelism At The Family Altar Chapel, Battle Creek, Michigan, whose Christian radio show in 1981 specialised in clips of “satanic messages”.Įveryone from The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, KISS, Acca Dacca and the Lord Of The Rings whimsy of Led Zeppelin were dragged into the controversy. So how did poor old Queen get dragged into this madness? Groups like Led Zeppelin, Fleetwood Mac, The Eagles and The Rolling Stones - the are really into the occult.” The occult influence is the part that bothers me the most. Subliminal persuasion is as close to mind control as you can get. ![]() “They’re messing with our mind and you don’t even know it. ![]() Your conscious mind hears one thing, but your subconscious mind can pick the other up. James Gilbert, minister at the Church Of Christ in Kaufman, Texas told the Iowa Telegraph Herald in October 1981: “A subliminal message is a message that’s below a discernible level. Led Zeppelin in their prime: Robert Plant and Jimmy Page.Įverett Collection Inc / Alamy Stock Photoīut the urban myth grew and with the emergence of heavy rock in the 70s, bands like Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin and AC/DC played with imagery that recalled horror movies, the occult and the Highway To Hell. More on rock music's greatest conspiracy theories The culmination of this silliness was the “Paul Is Dead” rumour of 1969, in which The Beatles themselves laid clues in reverse and hidden on their album sleeves to “cover up” the fact that Paul McCartney had died three years earlier. ![]()
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