"The Mirror ran a story- which no other paper followed-of the band's (Beasty Boys) verbally abusing disabled children at the Montreaux festival in Switzerland. The Mirror then backed a campaign by Conservative MP Peter Brunivels to prevent the band's entering Britain for a planned tour and editorialized thet "the CBS record company ought to have nothing more to do with them... the least i can do now to save its reputation is to cancel their tour at once and stop putting out the group's records" (15 May 1987)
Although this campaign was unsuccessful, The Mirror's reporting contributed to a growth in public hostility toward the band.
This reached a peak when the tour climaxed in violences at Liverpool, where some of the crowd threw objects at the band and sang "We're the Scouse army and we've beaten the Beasty boys". (NME, 6, June 1987)
Although this campaign was unsuccessful, The Mirror's reporting contributed to a growth in public hostility toward the band.
This reached a peak when the tour climaxed in violences at Liverpool, where some of the crowd threw objects at the band and sang "We're the Scouse army and we've beaten the Beasty boys". (NME, 6, June 1987)
Source:
Cloonan, M. ,2002, "Exclusive! The British Press and Popular Music. The story so far", in Pop Music and the Press, Ed. Jones, S., Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
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