NINETEEN-EIGHTY NINE a number, another summer. (Get down) Batman is dominating the box office, the dulcet tones of Kim Boyce are blasting from every car stereo, as the Satanic Panic and fear over the “jungle rhythms” of modern pop and rock music weigh heavy on the parents of America.
 
Today on This Fire we ask the tough questions, and investigate whether the Christian Contemporary Music of the late 1980s POISONED a generation of young minds, as we look back at the June 1989 episode of Fire By Nite - “Let’s Face The Music”.

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This Fire is taking an in depth look at Fire By Nite - a Christian teen variety show produced at the height of the 1980s Satanic Panic.