Hide Your Children! Gary Glitter Is Out Of Prison!
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This is weird, but I'm channeling that sicko/former glam rocker Gary Glitter. If you don't know the background on Glitter, read this first.
So I'm watching NBC's Olympics coverage last night, like 11pm-ish. It's the women's gymnastics uneven bar finals. I'm not going to get ALL into it, but Nastia Liukin, the US gymnast who got gold in the individual all-around was robbed of the gold medal for the event, despite the fact she tied Chinese gymnast He Kexin score. Now, for those not following the gymnastics stuff, there's been this rumor that Kexin is not 16, the age you have to be to compete in the games. She sure doesn't look it. She looks eleven. So when she gets favored and gets the gold, I say to myself, "Who's judging this competition...Gary Glitter?" I think I'm being funny. What a funny SNL skit, right? The Chinese team falling on each event, while the American nail everything, but the Chinese, because they look seven, gets perfect scores because Gary Glitter is a judge.
Does the one in the middle look 16 to you?
Cut to today, in the car on the way to Starbucks. The Cars' "My Best Friend's Girl" just ended and the DJ comes on all, "You'll never guess who got out of jail today!" And I'm thinking... unabomber Kaczynski? O.J. Simpson? a Hilton? a Kardashian? No, it's none other than Gary Glitter... the guy who I randomly thought about a mere ten hours earlier for the first time since I last wrote a news story about how the pedophile was being incarcerated for being one deranged, sick, child-fondling f*#k. Too weird.
So yeah, hide your children. Glitter, also known as Paul Francis Gadd and whose glam rock hits included "Rock and Roll, Parts One and Two" is being deported back to the UK, where he is expected to address the public tomorrow. Glitter was sentenced to three years back in 2006, for molesting two Vietnamese girls, ages 10 and 11, at his rented home in southern Vietnam. In 1999 he served four months in a UK prison on child pornography charges, after Glitter had taken his computer to a repair shop and an employee uncovered thousands of hardcore images of children.
Originally scheduled on a Qatar Airways flight, the airline refused to take him, so a Thai airlines will do the dirty work. Upon his arrival in the UK Glitter will be registered as a sex offender.
I need to go take a shower. Just thinking about Glitter makes me feel gross. What do you think Glitter will be remembered more for? His music or his child porn habit?
Comments (12)
I'm with you on the gymnastics stuff - the judging looks as corrupt as every other part of the Olympics structure. On the Glitter front, is there a dj in the western world brave enough to play one of his tracks? Do you seperate a man and his art? What does his producer and songwriter Mike Leander think about all this? After all, his income got ruined by Mr. Glitter. And where is Mr. Glitter going to live? Almost anywhere will have rabid vigilantes all over him if the past 10 years is anything to go by. 2 many questions, I know.
I would be a lot happier if he wasnt remembered at all
American athletes refuse to be tested for substances, claiming that they were tested back home, and instead of someone doing something, they just let them compete, so I guess we can let one injustice against them slide. Don't mean to pick a fight with any American here, just stating a fact.
Jonh, I separate music and life when it comes to a crime as disgusting as this one. Wouldn't bother to do it for theft, for instance.
I think Mr. Glitter makes a mint just from EVERY sports event that plays "Rock n' Roll Part 1".
wow, neill what a find. i'm gonna pass on a listen though.
He'll be remembered for Rock and Roll Part 2, even if his name isn't remembered. That song is inescapable if you're a sports nut like me...
BTW that Kiddie Fiddlers pic is hilarious :-o
To be serious for a moment.....
He has, to all intense porpoises, been airbrushed out of UK pop history - not a single "I *Heart* the Seventies/Glam Rock/Power Cuts" type show ever features his songs, although at the time they were hits nobody knew he was a paedophile.
Frankly, given the excesses of certain much loved rock stars, I detect a tiny whiff of "Eau de Hypocrise" here - Jimmy Page, and Mick Jagger were not always noted for their concern over the age of consent (do some live versions of "Stray Cat Blues not feature lines referring to the groupie as thirteen?). Miles Davis funded his habit by pimping. Chuck Berry and James Brown were no strangers to prison food - ditto Hugh Cornwell of the Stranglers (drugs) and David Crosby (guns, no?).
The self-appointed vigilantes will make his life hell anyway - do we need to forget his music because of offences he committed thirty years later?
Anna, I hadn't heard that, but I don't think the athletes have a right to refuse drug testing? I think every time someone wins they're tested. I know they kept talking about Michael Phelps having to go get tested after pretty much every time he won.
Baudolino makes a very valid point. If you ask most young guys in bands, they get into it firstly for the music and then for the girls, drugs and free booze. In the UK(age of consent - 16) , you very rarely hear about any 17/18 getting prosecuted for sleeping with their 14/15 year old girlfriends.
Having said that, Gary Glitter was supposedly sleeping with young girls during his heyday, but its all rumour...
So I did a search on this fool because I wanted to know what "Rock n' Roll Part II" sounded like. I have to say I was totally shocked. "The Hey song", as it was titled when I played it in pep band in h.s. was a mainstay at the many basketball, hockey, and football games I played. I feel tainted now for enjoying that song. We'll chalk it up as a youthful indiscretion?