![]() ![]() But surely it's time for a clemency for his records and, at Christmas, to blare them out as I will be doing (with the curtains closed, if necessary) and say, Hello, hello, come back, again. ![]() Nobody is saying it's time to forgive the former Paul Gadd for paedophilia - crime and punishment or rehabilitation is a matter for the judicial process. Even now I struggle to hear any really dark sexual frisson beyond the saucy postcard tease of Do You Wanna Touch Me (although, thanks Gary, but I'll pass on that and no, I don't want to be in your gang). The famous Glitter beat is a staple part of music from bands as diverse as Marilyn Manson and Kasabian, yet we are being denied the original singles, many of which ironically cast Glitter in the role of shunned outsider (I Love You Love Me Love - "They tried to tell you I was not the boy for you"). You’re my sweet, sweet thing, you never bite but you always sting. But uh, that don’t bother a girl like you, you get your cake and you eat it too. You like the fact that I’m in a band, you’re aware I’m a one night stand. My belief - and I'd really like your views on this - is that art should not be confused with the artist, and that pop fans of any generation should not be denied the genius of Rock'n'Roll Part 1 (one of the great pop records about pop - "Can you still recall in the jukebox hall when the music played/And the world span round to a brand new sound in those far off days?"). Come on over for a rendezvous, a cuppa tea and then some leaves a few. ![]() So why is Glitter so vilified? Because he's taken over Myra Hindley's old role as monster of choice for the News of the World? Roman Polanski admitted sex with a minor but people still watch his films. Goya made wonderfully disturbed etchings but you wouldn't want him round for lunch. Wagner's anti-semitism was an influence on Hitler but the composer's music is still performed around the world. Which is weird, because in other areas of culture, artists' work has not been so tainted by personal failings, however grave. This year, facing yet another Glitter-free Christmas, I've found myself downloading those old songs from iTunes and even in the process, somehow feeling seedy. Nowadays, because of What Gary Has Done, the same songs are pop's pariahs, songs you never hear on the radio, which have been airbrushed from pop history in the same way as Glitter - who had one of the longest chart runs of any singer in the 70s - has been excluded from rock biographies and more or less scrubbed out of pop history. If only Gary were - as the song put it - remembered this way. Much later there were the televised live Gang Shows and, of course, Another Rock'n'Roll Christmas. The following year round at Andy Wormald's house listening to Hello, Hello I'm Back Again. Learn more about the conductor of the song and Piano, Vocal & Guitar Chords music notes score you can easily download and has been arranged for. ![]() Printable Pop PDF score is easy to learn to play. Christmas 1973 - I Love You Love Me Love, the first single I ever bought (Bell Records 7", shiny silver label). Download Gary Glitter Another Rock And Roll Christmas sheet music notes that was written for Piano, Vocal & Guitar Chords and includes 5 page(s). Nor can you mention alcohol in a song in 1945.īut a mother-and-daughter pair of prostitutes? It was number one for seven weeks.Įthyl, Ethyl, let me squeeze you in my armsĮthyl, Ethyl, come and freeze me with your charmsĪnd she ought to be.Even now, I tend to track my childhood festive seasons by Glitter singles. It wasn't played on the radio not because of the lyrics - even the Andrews Sisters had no idea they were singing about a mother and a daughter working ON THEIR BACKS - but because the song mentioned Coca-Cola, and that was advertising, and you can't have that in a song. This became a huge hit despite pretty much no radio airplay - quite a trick in the 1940s. "Rum And Coca-Cola", words, MoreyAmsterdam music, Jeri Sullivan and Paul Baron based on a calypso by Lionel Belasco, and made popular by the Andrews Sisters She was utterly horrified to discover what the subject of that song is, years later.Īnd something much older, less blatant, but crazy for its time: My mother LOVED Frankie Goes To Hollywood - "Relax". ![]()
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