Rolling Stone Menu John Waters Marks 75th Birthday With ‘Prayer to Pasolini’
Stream the tribute to Italian film director Pier Paolo Pasolini
By John Waters Productions
Prayer to Pasolini in conjunction with his 75th birthday on April 22nd. A tribute to controversial Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini, Waters’ audio set is currently available in digital format. A 7-inch vinyl version of the two-part title track is available as part of Sub Pop Singles Club Vol. 6 and is limited to 1000 copies.
The directors were both maligned in the Seventies for Waters’
Pink Flamingos and Pasolini’s final work,
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, over explicit scenes that led to the films being banned. Both films depict eating shit. According to a statement, Waters said the difference is that in his film, which predates