Teens in London protest fave band's 'suicide' label

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LONDON (AFP) — Around 100 teenagers marched on the offices of a widely-read British tabloid Saturday to protest at its suggestion that their favourite emo band, My Chemical Romance, encouraged suicide.

They objected to Daily Mail's description of the US group as a "suicide cult band" after a 13-year-old south London student hanged herself two weeks after she started listening to its music.

The Daily Mail, which is read by more than five million people a day, described My Chemical Romance as one of the main "suicide cult" groups forming part of the emo phenomenon.

It went on to describe emo as a teenage trend exported to Britain from the United States in the 1980s and "characterised by depression, self-injury and suicide".

Most of Saturday's...