Do Ya Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah)
Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 6:44 pm
Yes, knee-jerk reactions. People are controlled by the media, it dictates what they talk about and what they view as important. There are many vile acts perpetrated by all sorts of society customs, regimes and corruption throughout the world all with far-reaching consequences for us all, the antics of some bothersome 2-bit cabaret act has-been with a text-book fetish for teenagers and apparantly tweenies too is of little consequnce to any of us. I would have thought that his conviction for having downloaded those vile pictures would have made him a prime target for hungry tabloid journo's, his inabilty to maintain anonyminity on the other side of the world is just a manifestation of his obvious ego-problem and it made him an irresistable target. I'm not interesting in defending those guilty of such acts, though the governments of these places that profer child prostitution should be taken to task more for having such a hit&miss policy on such matters; but nor am I interested in promoting someone who made 6 great singles 33/34 years and hasn't produced anything of merit since 1973 from what he is - a sad sordid old pervert (of which there are many more in our society)- into some kind of public enemy number one; if indeed he is guilty he practised his creepy antics in a country that only looks into such crimes when reminded to by the gutter press.
And let us not forget that the industry that rewarded his lack of talent with come-back after come-back, long after the one-trick pony had passed his sell-by date, the same industry that overlooked his legendary sleazy appetite for young girls; is the self-same multi-million-pound industry that is now trying to erase the memory of "the leader"... I believe there is a special programme on glam rock tonight on tv, my guess is they will laughably fail to mention Mr 1973 as if he had never existed. Perspective is a wonderful thing, pity it's so rarely practised.
And let us not forget that the industry that rewarded his lack of talent with come-back after come-back, long after the one-trick pony had passed his sell-by date, the same industry that overlooked his legendary sleazy appetite for young girls; is the self-same multi-million-pound industry that is now trying to erase the memory of "the leader"... I believe there is a special programme on glam rock tonight on tv, my guess is they will laughably fail to mention Mr 1973 as if he had never existed. Perspective is a wonderful thing, pity it's so rarely practised.