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** The entire [[Skinheads|skinhead]] movement can trace its roots back to ska. Also, keep in mind that calling skinheads racist is a great way to [[Berserk Button|find out what the bottom of a pair of Doc Martens looks like]]—most skinheads are explicitly anti-racist, primarily because of the minority of neo-Nazis that has tarnished the scene.
** There's also Saga, the Neo-Nazis' answer to Madonna. (Silly, but necessary, given Madonna's conversion to Jewish mysticism.)
** National Alliance leader (and secret author of ''[[The Turner Diaries]]'') William Pierce was well aware of the irony. He despised rock music and preferred that young people listen to classical music or opera, but was pragmatic enough to decide that if white youths were immature enough to be into the rock scene, that was what his label Resistance Records was going to give them (provided it could impart a "white power" message, of course).
* Pat Boone made his career out of taking somewhat-racy popular music (especially [[Rock and Roll]]) and defanging it, going back to the 1950s when he released [[Bowdlerise|a tamer version]] of [[Little Richard]]'s "Tutti Frutti" (which had ''itself'' been bowdlerized from Little Richard's original version, so in effect Boone defanged something already largely toothless). He rode this to become the second highest-selling artist of [[The Fifties]], with several of his covers, including "Tutti Frutti" and Fats Domino's "Ain't That a Shame", reaching higher positions on the charts than the original recordings (though the originals are today recognized as the [[First and Foremost]] versions). He's still doing it to this day; ''In A Metal Mood'', an album of Boone converting such songs as [[Metallica]]'s ''Enter Sandman'' and [[Ronnie James Dio]]'s ''Holy Diver'', has earned a [[So Bad It's Good]] cult following (amusingly, Boone has since claimed his church threw him out for even ''touching'' metal music).
** Little Richard recorded "Long Tall Sally" in an effort to produce a song that Pat Boone couldn't cover. Boone gamely tried, but Richard's version ended up beating his out on the charts.
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