Everyone has a dark side and most (not all) have a good side. People in the US are like schools of fish, shifting from one place to the other depending upon how scared they are or what the “latest” outrage is. That, as they say, was that.Ĭancel culture is flavor of the month crap. One of Britain’s biggest pop stars was Britain’s public enemy number one.
#GARY GLITTER 2018 PC#
He was due a cameo in The Spice Girls movie, which had to be re-shot last-minute following his ill-fated trip to PC World. Even in the mid-1990s he was being sampled by Oasis on the opening track of the decade’s biggest album. I’m just amazed at how sudden and complete his fall from grace was. I’m not advocating a rehabilitation of Gary Glitter. Kelly, who in recent years has undergone a similar cancelling. Phil Spector, currently in prison for murder, will have his Christmas hits played this year Glitter’s ‘Rock n Roll Christmas’ will not be getting a spin.ĭoes it then, ultimately, come down to snobbery? Are we willing to overlook artists’ indiscretions, as long as they make ‘good’ music? Gary Glitter was always a bit of a prat, a clownish character, who released disposable pop music. His music’s still played, for the most part. Again, no conviction, but enough evidence and testimony for us to conclude that something unsavoury was going on at Neverland. Is it as simple as Glitter got convicted? Then there’s Michael Jackson. Why has Gary Glitter been so completely erased from British pop music history, when others with similar allegations to their name haven’t? Plenty of huge stars from the sixties and seventies have their accusers… Jagger, Bowie… while Pete Townshend got caught ‘researching’ a book on child abuse. We’ll have cause to mention him when we arrive at a couple of 80s #1s.) He has been jailed for possessing child pornography, for child sexual abuse and attempted rape. I won’t be doing a Gary Glitter Top 10, or a Remembering Gary Glitter when he passes. I had never ever heard it before, and I probably never will again without choosing to. It is undeniably catchy though I would rate it worst out of his three chart-toppers.
When the kids have moved on you know a style is on its way out…īut ‘Always Yours’ is a perfectly reasonable slice of late-era glam.
#GARY GLITTER 2018 FULL#
We’ve come full circle, from the days of thirty-something Bill Haley rocking around the clock to Glitter and Alvin Stardust dancing about in sparkly jumpsuits. Which is rich, coming from a man in his mid-thirties. Al-ways Yo-ours…Īs with all his #1s, you don’t have to look very hard before finding lines that sound dodgy in hindsight. There are handclaps, pianos, and Glitter’s frenzied vocals. The glitter stomp drumbeat has been sped up to raucous rockabilly levels. You know, I know, I’ll never never let you go… It’s a frantic record that races through its three minute allocation. He wasn’t always, I have to keep reminding myself, just a creepy paedo. Considering that the latter two acts are a decade away from arriving on the scene, we can conclude that Gary Glitter was a bit of an influence. (OK, he did, they just didn’t get to number one.) I’m getting Mud (the that’s me, that’s me lines are straight outta ‘Tiger Feet’) through Shakin’ Stevens vibes. Always Yours, by Gary Glitter (his 3 rd and final #1)Įxcept, it’s another foot tapper.
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