Phil will get away with it, as being a gun toting lunatic doesn't seem to have ever got anyone expelled from the rock pantheon.

The same doesn't appear to be the case for GG, Jonathan King etc, although similar issues don't seem to have hurt Jerry Lee Lewis in the long run, even though it stuffed up his career at the time.

... if you buy something else at hmv.

I sometimes wonder what I'd do if one of my big faves ended up in the GG position. (I'm not going to name any, in case it sparks a rumour - can't be too careful.)
Imagine the 20 albums you have by [insert name]. Could you listen to them again? Would you throw them out? Would you hide them from public display and listen only on earphones?

Great records, fabulous wigs, but I wouldn't want to go to a party round at his house. Well ... actually I probably would, but I would make sure that I wasn't the last one waiting for a taxi.

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I was at a photoshoot for a big supermarket Christmas advertising campaign a few years ago, after Spector’s arrest but long before the court case. Obviously lots of Christmas music was played. Someone put the Spector album on and was met with a flurry of protests from the assembled cast of models, stylists, marketing “executives” etc. etc. It was swiftly taken off.
Mind you, I’ve heard it on the radio and in shops etc. since. Certainly still play it in our house. There’s long been a debate about whether you can separate the art from the person who made it blah blah blah. I think in GG’s case two of his biggest hits are “Do You Want To Touch Me” (i.e. a blatant sexual come-on) and “I’m The Leader Of The Gang” in which he invites his impressionable devotees to sign up for his “gang”. They sort of relate directly to his crimes and it would be in poor taste to play them. The same can’t be said for Darlene Love singing “Baby Please Come Home”. It has no relevance to Spector’s “alleged” crime. And, of course, it’s one of the greatest records ever made, while Gary Glitter is, and always was, a crock of shite.

really? Well if it comes to a choice between the two the weirdo in the wig wins hands down (!)
Whilst not wishing to place GG in the same league as Spector, that whole glam stompy pop of the early 70s was good pop to my ears.
I agree about the inappropriate titles of those two tracks but it's the rewriting of history that I don't like - the erasing of his name from the Cavern Wall, withdrawing reference to him from exam specifications - that just seems a little Stalinist to me. I certainly don't want the same to happen to Spector's stuff.
Let's separate the artist from the art by all means, but our condemnation of the artist shouldn't have anything to do with the quality of the art should it?