Accusations that rock 'n' roll is the Devil's music have been around ever since Elvis first twitched his hips onstage, but these claims were scoffed at by the non-religious, and vigorously denied by the performers themselves. However, in the last couple of years it's become increasingly clear that in the '70s at least, a lot of rock's biggest names, while not worshipping Old Scratch directly, were indeed attracted to, and heavily influenced by the English occultist, Aleister Crowley.

Peter-R. Koenig claims that David Bowie was one acolyte who never bothered to disguise his admiration for the Great Beast, at least in his lyrics.