All that Glitters...

So, that's it then for glam rock superstar and nonce, Gary Glitter. Three years in a Vietnamese hard-labour, military prison for molesting two eleven year old girls. Nice. Still, as one way to end a career, I guess it beats the firing squad. For some, however, the magic lives on. Yes, cast a bucket into the bottomless well of human stupidity and you will eventually come up with some Gary Glitter fans. The news section of the official Gary Glitter website is called 'The Daily Glitter'. It's editor makes a heartfelt plea for musical freedom, protesting that: "Music fans want to be able to remember Gary Glitter for the great legacy of recordings he produced." As opposed to remembering him for molesting children, one presumes. I'd also like to take issue with the catch-all inclusion of 'music fans' here. I'm a music fan, and let me state here for the record, I do not want to remember Gary Glitter's legacy of recordings, or hear them ever again. I make this statement largely on musical grounds (I'm still happy to listen to The Who, despite Pete Townsend receiving a police caution for viewing pornographic images of children), but when you consider Gary Glitters offences, I really, really don't want to listen to such 1970s 'classics' as:

"Do You Wanna Touch Me?"
"Hello Hello I'm Back Again"
"Doing Alright with the Boys"
"It Takes All Night Long"
"And Then She Kissed Me"

And perhaps most worrying of all…

"What Your Mama Don't See"

Spot a pattern here, pop-pickers? The remaining Gary Glitter fan/s also reports excitedly, that their hero has released 'a new single for 2005'. It's called 'Field of Dreams', and presumably won't be coming to the iTunes Music Store anytime soon.

Haven't these people got anything better to do? Going on about Gary Glitter. Oh, hang on that's me. Time, to bow out disgracefully, which seems to be the theme of the day…