Rock bands often spend ridiculous amounts of money on alcohol, along with drugs. Why do rock n roll bands deal with such narcotics? The Beatles artist Sir Paul admitted that drugs influenced most of their songs. Sir Paul admitted that more then three of their songs where written about drugs (BBC News). The Rolling Stones are famous for their amount of money they spent on drugs. They knowingly influence their adult fans along with their teen fans to drink and do drugs. The Rolling Stones are one of the most influential bands out there in the Music Industry (Zaterdag). Rock is known for influencing teens to do bad things. The University of Missouri did a study, they found out that most teens who listen to rock showed a higher level of reckless behavior such as the following: drug use, unprotected sex, casual sex, drunk driving, speeding, and vandalism (Johnson). The Rolling Stones had a period of time where they would spend--ten thousand dollars a day on drugs: Not counting the severe amount of alcohol they bought. They did this for an extended period of time. Back stage they would allow their fans to have some. Of course the fan would say yes, just to get the chance to drink and smoke with the band (Reames). As you may know drugs and alcohol is one of the main causes of deaths in the United States. It causes brain cells to die, so that you may not even know what you are doing. Now with rock bands influencing teens to do drugs and alcohol, there may be an up rise in today's teen related deaths.
"BBC News." Sir Paul reveals Beatles Drug Use 2 June 2004: n. pag. Web. 4 Apr 2011. <http: 2="" 3769511.stm="" hi="" news.bbc.co.uk="">.</http:>
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