![]() Throughout the late 1980s, Nixon and Roper produced several satirical pieces lampooning contemporary celebrities, such as MTV VJ Martha Quinn, in "Stuffin' Martha's Muffin," and Rick Astley and Deborah Gibson, in " Debbie Gibson Is Pregnant with My Two-Headed Love Child". Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper were also recorded in San Francisco during these early years by producer Sylvia Massy at CD Presents for the Rat Music For Rat People compilation album. Nixon and Roper's third album, 1987's Bo-Day-Shus!!! featured the song "Elvis is Everywhere," a deification of Elvis Presley, which is probably his best known song (Nixon later declared his personal religious trinity was Presley, Foghorn Leghorn and Otis Campbell). The song "Jesus at McDonald's" from that album was the duo's first single. Nixon and Roper released their first album in 1985 on Enigma Records, Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper. Roper mostly provided instrumental backup to Nixon's lyrics. He paired with Skid Roper in the early 1980s in San Diego. Nixon was born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. 6 The Mojo Manifesto: The Life and Times of Mojo Nixon. ![]()
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