Cover Your Ears is a new documentary bringing together luminaries like Dee Snider, Chuck D, Jello Biafra, Judas Priest’s Ian Hill and Sakis from Rotting Christ to explore how censorship has affected music over the decades. Canadian director/co-writer Sean Patrick Shaul’s original focus was the ‘dirty blues’ of the 1920s-50s, those pioneering naughty ditties that inspired AC/DC’s love of lewd innuendo. But the deeper Sean dug, the more he discovered how much censorship has shaped our favourite music.
“We realised there’s a direct correlation between the dirty blues and the Rolling Stones, and a direct correlation between the Stones and heavy metal,” he says. “So the story just kind of unravelled itself.”
