Do you want to be in his gang?
Glam rock tonight which should be a cracking theme. Lots of Bowie, Bolan, The Sweet, Slade...and Gary Glitter. Or should the disgraced pop star be erased from the history of pop?
Angela from Dunfermline raises some interesting points about Glitter elsewhere on the blog:
"I'd like to hear GG, but not "do you wanna touch" definitely conjurs up dodgy images. I suspect the beeb has a no GG policy though as have never heard him played on R2's Pick of the Pops, Dale just whizzes by his entries as though they don't exist. TV programmes on the 70s also omit him. I find this rewriting of pop history more creepy and stalinist than the bloke himself. "
I checked with our editorial policy unit this afternoon and there is no ban on his records. However when you look back knowing what we know about him will our memories of those songs be ruined?
I would not want to to censor great pop music but at the same time I don't want to play anything that would upset folk listening to the show.
Bizzarely I had a Gary Glitter Gangshow stage pass on my cd box which I removed after his conviction, but would I never want to hear that music again? Just don't know. Your thoughts?
