Do Phillips' accusations kill the music?

In the 1980s, when some of the earliest scandals involving athletes became public, basketball player Kareem Abdul-JabbarKareem Abdul-Jabbar made an interesting statement.

Jabbar, who eventually retired as the leading scorer of all time in the National Basketball Association, said it was ridiculous to look at celebrities as role models. He suggested that a far healthier society would celebrate people for what they did well, rather than expecting them to be perfect.

In light of today's accusations by actress Mackenzie PhillipsMackenzie Phillips against her late father John PhillipsJohn Phillips, that statement certainly comes into play. John Phillips was the primary creative force behind the great '60s rock group, the Mamas and the Papas.

Several of their biggest recordings -- "California Dreamin' and "Monday Monday," to name two -- are part of the soundtrack of an awful lot of people's '60s memories.

Now daughter Mackenzie, 49, is claiming that when she was 19, her father gave her drugs so that he could have sex with her, beginning a 10-year incestuous affair that allegedly didn't end until she had an abortion at age 29.

John Phillips has been dead for years, so he can't defend himself. The fact is, there were enough stories about him not being a particularly nice guy that it's impossible to just write the accusations off.

I don't even want to get into that. I'm enough of a believer that I'm convinced that if her accusations are true, her father is paying the price for it for all eternity.

But I wonder ...

Will I listen to "California Dreamin'" the same way?

Will the songs be any less beautiful?

I honestly don't know.