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Glitter Gets Pulled
Gary Glitter's I'm The Leader Of The Gang is eventually pulled by the AQA - the Assessment and Qualifications Alliance from the GCSE listening list.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7719540.stm
I have to confess attending one of Mr Glitter's Christmas Gigs in Wembley back in 1995 and it was a jolly good night out along with the rather brilliant support band T.Rextasy. However, although I'm not a fan of ban and burn the books, I would baulk at giving the saddo any support, financial or otherwise in his present guise.
I'd love to know how the esteemed AQA deemed it appropriate that Mr Gadds output would be considered material for students studying their GCSE. It would also be very interesting to see how they managed to come to that particular decision. Of course no one will explain or apologise. Unbelievable and crass. It truly beggers belief.
Does it really take a campaign from the esteemed writers of The Sun, (they naturally are claiming credit) to get them to revise their decision. It's just another case of World gone mad.
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in a similar vein...
I think this is a far more sensible attitude:
http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-news/regional-news/2008/11...
All in all
he's just another...etc
What does Mike Leander make of this....?
Revenue streams cut off through no fault of his own. Any government assistance.
I still play The Undertones version of "Rock n Roll" when DJ'ing - still goes down well
Fair enough
but the Glitter thing and kids doing GCSE's just isn't a runner from my point of view. As for playing the records, I don't have a problem although if I'm honest I haven't. No particular reason apart from an uncomfortable feeling.
I had it with The Who too but put it to the back of my mind.
If only we'd known then ... etc
I once saw GG appear on stage with The Who at the Quadrophenia show in Hyde Park. It wasn't very good.
I must defend Pete Townshend here.
Townshend was hopelessly naive in his actions.
Glitter was not.
'Nessa in "Gavin and Stacey"
'All I'm saying is Pete, where's the book?"
'Arf!
me too
I was at that gig, we were so far back the music was out of synch with the screens(couldn't see the stage).I seem to remember Dylan played as well, shortly before his heart scare, he didn't look well.
Sport
Given that he probably pulls in serious money from the number of times Rock and Roll Part II gets played on national and cable TV shows in the states (it gets multiple airings at pretty much all major sporting events), I would imagine this loss is not a significant one. It's almost the national anthem of American football.
Can I ask ...
... even factoring out the singer's criminal record what aspect of this song merits academic discussion, so that its on a recommended listening list? Poetry, art, social comment?
I think the Cavern has got it about right. You can't simply go about rewriting history ... unless of course we actually defeat Mr Glitter in a war. (And they satire's dead!)
It's part of the GCSE 'Two Drummers' course...
Starts with the Glitter Band, moves up through Adam And The Ants, Genesis live, 1990's King Crimson then finally, an in depth study of the Grateful Dead's Hart & Kreutzmann
Glitter gets pulled!!!
Isn't that what he was hoping for??
Glitter Pulled Out (sorry)
http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-news/regional-news/2008/11...
Well
I'd have probably left it. My problem is with the issue of putting a known and current paedophile's work up for comment by kids. It's just wrong.
So I think, is re writing history.
Do you think
they might move on to calling for the removal of The Beatles' brick because of the drug convictions? I'm assuming here that there might be at least one.
And come to think of it isn't their airport named after a heroin-using, wife-beating, IRA-supporting, child-kidnapping, sometime song-writing, but mostly now money-spinning-tourist-attracting son of the city? (I've just finished the Philip Norman book).
But
on the other hand he didn't stick parts of his body into children.
Is the book any good? I've been giving it a wide berth.
Philip Norman
What you get essentially is a lot of information that is already out there brought together in one place. Good on the very early days, and Hamburg but I really didn't learn anything new. It's pretty sympathetic to Yoko but you can see why she withdrew her endorsement, and that 'John fancied his mum' bombshell, that was used to sell the whole enterprise - not least in The Word - is totally unconvincing.
Lyrics
As I have commented elsewhere, even before he was known to be a paedophile, on what grounds did AQA think lines like "I'm the man who put the bang in gang" were suitable for GCSE dissection?