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Title: Song stirs up controversy
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Mullen, Mike
Date Created and/or Issued: 1982
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
Photograph caption dated January 15, 1982 reads, "Fans of radio station and New Wave song carry signs in support of tune they say they find humorous." The song causing the stir was "Johnny Are You Queer?" by Josie Cotton.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;23 x 30 cm. on sheet 29 x 36 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00092570
Herald Examiner Collection
HE_b091_f1_i58
CARL0005026422
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/29131
Subject: KROQ (Radio station : Los Angeles, Calif.)
New wave music--United States
Demonstrations--California--Pasadena
Radio stations--California--Pasadena
Crowds--California--Pasadena
Radio stations--Call signs
Pasadena (Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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