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MirrorBall Man
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Jesus Thinks You're a Jerk: Rock vs. Televangelists
When Bono transformed into the slick Mirrorball Man - a cowboy-hat wearing Texan with a taste for fast cash and flashy suits - for U2's 1991 Zoo TV stadium tour, he was spoofing a particularly American phenomenon: the rise (and fall) of the TV preacher, also known as the televangelist.
Like reality TV stars, many televangelists of the '80s were especially brazen and achieved a high level of celebrity and scandal, not to mention wealth.
At the time, a lot of fire and brimstone was being hurled at Rock music from watchdog groups like the Parents Music Resource Center and thunderous televangelists who viewed stars like Ozzy Osbourne as little more than guitar-wielding demons singing verses from Satan's personal diary. Unfortunately, when you deal with that much fire, you're bound to get burned. After the sexual and financial scandals of big name evangelists like Jimmy Swaggart and Jim Bakker broke wide open, many musicians, including Christians, took them to task. Some bands used them as examples to criticize organized religion; others attacked them for playing God and teaching an unbiblical "prosperity gospel." Either way, televangelist songs became a rite of passage in Rock and Heavy Metal.
The Miracle Man: Rock vs. Swaggart .. http://www.songfacts.com/blog/writing/jesus_thinks_you_re_a_jerk_rock_vs_televangelists/
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Jesus Thinks You're a Jerk: Rock vs. Televangelists
When Bono transformed into the slick Mirrorball Man - a cowboy-hat wearing Texan with a taste for fast cash and flashy suits - for U2's 1991 Zoo TV stadium tour, he was spoofing a particularly American phenomenon: the rise (and fall) of the TV preacher, also known as the televangelist.
Like reality TV stars, many televangelists of the '80s were especially brazen and achieved a high level of celebrity and scandal, not to mention wealth.
At the time, a lot of fire and brimstone was being hurled at Rock music from watchdog groups like the Parents Music Resource Center and thunderous televangelists who viewed stars like Ozzy Osbourne as little more than guitar-wielding demons singing verses from Satan's personal diary. Unfortunately, when you deal with that much fire, you're bound to get burned. After the sexual and financial scandals of big name evangelists like Jimmy Swaggart and Jim Bakker broke wide open, many musicians, including Christians, took them to task. Some bands used them as examples to criticize organized religion; others attacked them for playing God and teaching an unbiblical "prosperity gospel." Either way, televangelist songs became a rite of passage in Rock and Heavy Metal.
The Miracle Man: Rock vs. Swaggart .. http://www.songfacts.com/blog/writing/jesus_thinks_you_re_a_jerk_rock_vs_televangelists/
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