When news of the punk music scandal broke in Hungary in the late

When news of the punk music scandal broke in Hungary in the late 1970s, the cultural press labeled Beatrice as punks, even though the musicians themselves have never even heard of the style before. The band was banned from the then-vital Youth Park after a girl from the audience somehow got on stage and started masturbating with a femur bone. This was accompanied by other shocking rumours, and as a result, Beatrice was banned from most of the capital’s clubs as well. According to the most famous rumour, the members of the band ground a live chicken at one of their concerts. Despite the rumours falseness Péter Erdős, the Hungarian “popcaesar”, announced it in his TV show as a fact. The band then deliberately undertook to represent the “bottom ten thousand”. Thanks to state media, their disreputable nature became well-known, soon they were banned from several counties and state security agencies were constantly harassing the members of the band. Despite, or maybe because of this, their fame grew rapidly across the country. Their black leather pants, the leather vest, torn jeans, and distinctive red-white dotted (“babos”) scarf distinguished them and their audience from other bands.