13-06-2021, 10:46 AM
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Garry Glitter
For those of us familiar with Garry Glitter, the name evokes thoughts of sordid trips to the Far East, and nefarious sexual practices with underage girls. This is what has come to define Garry Glitter, and rightly so, but let us remember that there was more to the man than that.Glitter’s successful pop career has been totally eclipsed by his subsequent fall from grace, and it is easy to forget what an atrocious performer he was. His singing was truly awful, and his stage performance was clumsy and ridiculous. His output was completely lacking in any merit whatsoever.
This, of course, does not mitigate any of his later crimes; it simply adds to them. I like to think that when he was sentenced for his perverted sexual activities, a couple of years were added on for what he did to pop music. While that is highly unlikely, it is my way of consoling myself that he didn’t get away with it in the end.
13-06-2021, 11:18 AM
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Re: Garry Glitter
Well...I have to say that I liked Glitters music (when I was too young to know any different.) He was so over the top and dramatic and his music was so bad it was good!There have been many weird offensive people who have done incredible things, and why should their deviant acts overshadow all the good they did? Loath the person by all means, but their actions helped others and that shouldn't be dismissed.
13-06-2021, 11:19 AM
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Re: Garry Glitter
Originally Posted by Mups
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I believe he's due for release soon, there was something about it in the paper a week or so ago, but I didn't read it all.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/100813...ck-roll-joker/
13-06-2021, 11:38 AM
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Re: Garry Glitter
Originally Posted by Pixie Knuckles
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Well...I have to say that I liked Glitters music (when I was too young to know any different.) He was so over the top and dramatic and his music was so bad it was good! There have been many weird offensive people who have done incredible things, and why should their deviant acts overshadow all the good they did? Loath the person by all means, but their actions helped others and that shouldn't be dismissed.
Well perhaps not Strauss, he's a bit too much 1 2 3 for my liking...
13-06-2021, 11:59 AM
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Re: Garry Glitter
Originally Posted by Harbal
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For those of us familiar with Garry Glitter, the name evokes thoughts of sordid trips to the Far East, and nefarious sexual practices with underage girls. This is what has come to define Garry Glitter, and rightly so, but let us remember that there was more to the man than that.Glitter’s successful pop career has been totally eclipsed by his subsequent fall from grace, and it is easy to forget what an atrocious performer he was. His singing was truly awful, and his stage performance was clumsy and ridiculous. His output was completely lacking in any merit whatsoever.
This, of course, does not mitigate any of his later crimes; it simply adds to them. I like to think that when he was sentenced for his perverted sexual activities, a couple of years were added on for what he did to pop music. While that is highly unlikely, it is my way of consoling myself that he didn’t get away with it in the end.
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