eughhhh, just seen on tele, the hit show Glee.

[Bobbisox]

Has Gary Glitter songs in it, this surely is gross or do you think because of the nature of the show, it is acceptable?

[squarebear]

Nothing wrong with his songs. It's the man himself I don't like, same with Michael Jackson.

[ummmm]

Yes it's acceptable. They are only songs after all...

[Bobbisox]

didn't music DJs stop playing them SB?

[squarebear]

I hope not.

[Bobbisox]

I could be wrong but tbh, I haven't heard one played since his arrest , even on the Radio

[squarebear]

That's a shame, as I liked his "leader of the gang" song but now you mention it, I haven't heard any for a long while either.

[Bobbisox]

I think they sort of took the unwritten word, or their producers did, and decided , because he was now a convicted paedophile, playing his music was no longer appropriate

[jackthehat]

I think that if we went back through history and compiled a list of *cultural no-no's* (based on the fact that the artist/composer/sculptor/inventor was in some respect morally reprehensible), and threw them away, disposed of them or simply stopped using them in any way............society would be a lot poorer as a result.

Gary Glitter was a great favourite of mine when I was younger.......his music provides part of the sound-track of my youth.

[pastafreak]

Don't forget that Glee is an American show...that might have something to do with it. Tho yanks have a tendency to take such things seriously.But if MJ is still popular over there-then who knows.....

[Bobbisox]

I agree with your last paragraph, the man filled theatres to bursting with his Christmas Spectaculars but playing or listening to his music now, not for me!

[andy-hughes]

I second jack's comments, and I have offered a similar viewpoint when this subject has been debated previously.

Should we avoid perfroamcnes of Wagner's music because he was a rabid anti-Semite? And the list goes on - too long to debate here.

As an occasional party DJ, I have yet to play a GG song, which is a shame, because they are great records, but I don't want to cause an issue and ruin an evening.

It's a fact though, I can't recall ever hearing either a song played, or reference to GG in any media since his conviction.

[Bobbisox]

avoidance has happened though Andy?

[andy-hughes]

Indeed it has Bobbisox - Wagner's music has not been performed in Israel since the war, except for one memorable occasion when a Holocaust survivor jumpred on the stage and tore up his shirt sleeve to reveal his camp number tattoo.

It's a tricky moral dilema, divorcing the art from the artist.

[Bobbisox]

I think when it comes to kids Andy, we are particularly disgusted though?

[Sooper]

What song was it? I watch Glee and must have missed that episode.

[andy-hughes]

Indeed Bobbi - I can fully appreciate your position on this.

[Bobbisox]

most of them I think sooper

[Sooper]

I just googled it as i couldnt remember seeing an episode with GG's songs and apparently it was "Do you wanna touch me" as performed by Gwyneth Paltrow. I didnt see that one, shame, i do quite like Mrs Paltrow!

[Whickerman]

In fact they were covering a Joan Jett song that was a big US hit for her in the early 80s.
It happens to be a Glitter song that she'd covered but i really wouldn't read too much into it; fiver says it's the Mail tomorrow outrage though

[jd_1984]

What a sick irony - do you wanna be in my gang?