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It's easy get caught up in the fame of the Beatles but many forget when they started they were just a bunch of normal teenage boys, and as teen boys that meant some immature behavior, like getting deported from Germany in 1960 for nailing a condom to a wall and burning it:

They had been drinking and popping pills. Irked by the dim light in the room they decided to illuminate things by burning something. Here accounts conflict. Some say they used rags or towels, but according the version of the story that has entered folklore—and which Pete Best later told a radio interviewer—they decided that a pack of new latex condoms was just the ticket. They lit them one by one and were amused by how they “burned and popped.” In the excitement of the moment McCartney either threw one burning rubber against the wall or he pinned it there and lit it. At any rate, it left a small scorch mark. Thinking nothing further of it, the two collected their belongings and moved to the new room over the Top Ten

http://patrickmurfin.blogspot.com/2014/12/two-beatles-and-flaming-condomthe.html

https://www.beatlesbible.com/1960/11/29/paul-mccartney-pete-best-arrested-hamburg/

https://www.historyandheadlines.com/paul-mccartney-arrested-arson/
It's easy get caught up in the fame of the Beatles but many forget when they started they were just a bunch of normal teenage boys, and as teen boys that meant some immature behavior, like getting deported from Germany in 1960 for nailing a condom to a wall and burning it: >They had been drinking and popping pills. Irked by the dim light in the room they decided to illuminate things by burning something. Here accounts conflict. Some say they used rags or towels, but according the version of the story that has entered folklore—and which Pete Best later told a radio interviewer—they decided that a pack of new latex condoms was just the ticket. They lit them one by one and were amused by how they “burned and popped.” In the excitement of the moment McCartney either threw one burning rubber against the wall or he pinned it there and lit it. At any rate, it left a small scorch mark. Thinking nothing further of it, the two collected their belongings and moved to the new room over the Top Ten http://patrickmurfin.blogspot.com/2014/12/two-beatles-and-flaming-condomthe.html https://www.beatlesbible.com/1960/11/29/paul-mccartney-pete-best-arrested-hamburg/ https://www.historyandheadlines.com/paul-mccartney-arrested-arson/

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[–] COFfeebreak 0 points (+0|-0) Edited

Even the term 'rock and roll' was an early euphemism for having sex. There are a few 'origin' stories of the term applied to music, one being:

In 1922, for instance, blues singer Trixie Smith sang, simmeringly, “My Man Rocks Me (With One Steady Roll)”.
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