tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post1711569056776620679..comments2024-03-28T09:33:26.444+00:00Comments on No Rock And Roll Fun: Mail fumes that Glitter gets goldSimon Hayes Budgenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07084524317888577404noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post-31335749459118089122012-05-16T05:55:40.736+00:002012-05-16T05:55:40.736+00:00I don't seek for one minute to excuse Glitter&...I don't seek for one minute to excuse Glitter's transgressions agains decency but we're still watching vintage Stones & Zeppelin clips on TV. <br /><br />Bill Wyman and Jimmy Page both had well-documented predilections for under-aged girls.<br /><br />Indeed, if you're to believe Simon Napier Bell much of 60s & 70s pop industry was a chicken farm that happened to produce a few songs along the way.Mikeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09639836396121576665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post-12593697671639923462012-05-14T17:31:30.305+00:002012-05-14T17:31:30.305+00:00Surely, though, the idea that Gary Glitter would p...Surely, though, the idea that Gary Glitter would pop up on television doing pop songs in the 1970s is something strange of itself, viewed from 2012? The fact the lyrics he was singing were awkward, with hindsight, adds to it... doesn't it?Simon Hayes Budgenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07084524317888577404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post-12122000066239859292012-05-14T14:46:37.431+00:002012-05-14T14:46:37.431+00:00All granted, I don't quite understand why, giv...All granted, I don't quite understand why, given the best part of four months' Pops (if we're only counting those featured on BBC4 thus far) to choose from, they chose one of the two featuring the popular press bogeyman of bogeymen. And why was Glitter left in? Because Jonathan King was cut out of a 1976 show and complained... <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2050698/BBC-apologise-paedophile-Jonathan-King-deleting-Top-Pops.html" rel="nofollow">as reported (with no end of sideline) in the Mail</a>Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05834265575179460764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post-65199650871309414312012-05-14T08:26:46.919+00:002012-05-14T08:26:46.919+00:00them "thousands of pounds" add up to a c...them "thousands of pounds" add up to a couple of hundred quid, too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com