Gary Glitter Released

[lankeela]

after serving 8 of his 16 year sentence - do you think he could resurrect his music career? I still enjoy his records and would probably go to a gig if he did one locally. Or do you think he should be permanently outcast?

[fitdarren]

He should be permanently outcast and I hope he is. He will still be a paedophile, the obnoxious git.

[piggynose]

Its so frustrating, cuz this all came about several years after the parents ( my aunt+ uncle) had passed away. My aunt was the catalyst imho, the glue,so when she died in 1997 the family stopped being so close!
Mind you maybe it was good thing my aunt+ uncle weren't alive to suffer this nightmare!
I believe it went to court, but i never found out what happened.

[piggynose]

Sorry if I appeared to be not very empathetic to yr situation gness.

[gness]

No apology needed at all, Piggy! :-)

[piggynose]

As you might say " thanx a million"

[Untitled]

there is a whole world of art and music out there made by people who aren’t gary glitter… is it really so hard to find someone else you like?

[rowanwitch]

I feel paedophiles should get life without parole, but he got what he got even though it's nowhere near enough. I suspect it will only be a matter of time before he breaches the terms of his license. Possibly online stuff, he will have learned about accessing it from his fellow prisoners and the temptation will be too great .

[gness]

Is that not how he was caught, Rowan? I thought he took a laptop to be serviced and the engineer found child abuse images on it.

[andy-hughes]

This raises once again the concept of the art being separated from the artist.

Personally, and I have said so many times in debates on here, I am a firm believer in separating the art from the artist, because I don't believe that enjoying the art equates to supporting the lifestyle or behaviour of the artist.

Millions of people enjoy Wagner, and manage not to have their enjoyment tainted by the fact that he was a raving anti-Semite.

Similarly, I think Gary Glitter made some definitive Glam Rock singles, and his behaviour, punishment and release, have never affected my enjoyment of them for what they are - great records.

I don't imagine for one minute that live appearances will ever be an option for Gary Glitter.

Apart from the fact that, even on the lucrative nostalgia circuit, the Glam ship sailed a long time ago, there would be the security risks for Glitter himself, and any venue staging anything in which he appeared.

There has been a blanket radio and television ban on him for decades, and there is no reason to assume that will change anytime soon.

I would guess he will live in quiet seclusion, living off the royalties from his music which still plays abroad, even if not here.

I will continue to enjoy his music at home, and remain unwilling to risk playing any of it at my disco gigs.

[rowanwitch]

May well be, it's how they caught a lot of them back in the day. Now they skulk in the recesses of the dark web, I bet his online presence will be under surveillance.

[naomi24]

Wasn’t he arrested in Thailand or somewhere else in the Far East?

[gness]

Would you feel the same had he tried to rape one of your daughters, Andy?

[andy-hughes]

gness - // Would you feel the same had he tried to rape one of your daughters, Andy? //

Clearly not, but he hasn't, so that situation does not arise, except in the realm of imagining pointless and distressing scenarios that have no bearing on the question being discussed.

[Lie-in King]

He's a revolting excuse for a human being & needs to be watched extremely carefully. I never owned any of his records & thought them catchy drivel at best - if I were told I'd never hear one again, I wouldn't lose any sleep.

[naomi24]

AH, I didn’t think they were ‘great’ records. It was mundane pop music aimed - ironically - at the very young.

[Canary42]

/// I am a firm believer in separating the art from the artist, ///

So, hypothetically, if he assaulted your baby daughter, you would continue to listen to his music ? How nice to possess such a high degree of sanctimony.

[barry1010]

I agree, that was the age of the 1970s 'teeny bopper' and that was his market.

[barry1010]

He has already answered that, Canary.

[Canary42]

Thank you Barry, I would never have recognised crossed posting without your guidance.

[andy-hughes]

Canary - // /// I am a firm believer in separating the art from the artist, ///

So, hypothetically, if he assaulted your baby daughter, you would continue to listen to his music ? How nice to possess such a high degree of sanctimony. //

It is nothing to do with 'sanctimony', and I think you are missing my point.

You can raise a hypothetical scenario about absolutely anything and everything, but they are utterly meaningless.

Would I stop enjoying Beatles music if I found out that Paul McCartney had burned down an orphanage?

Would my enjoyment of Bruce Springsteen's albums be compromised if I read that he liked drowning kittens for fun?

Is it possible that I might not find quite the same peaks of pleasure in my Pink Floyd albums if it was brought to my attention that David Gilmour posts dog excrement through the doors of his local synagogue?

Pointless and meaningless questions all - and entirely in keeping with your tasteless posturing about Gary Glitter abusing my children.

Mr Glitter's music is nothing to do with my personal circumstances, it stands alone as great pop music, and that is how I enjoy it.

Hopefully I have made my point and you can stop embarrassing yourself further with your utterly pointless scenario-building in pursuit of willfully missing the point I made.