Jerry Lee Lewis RIP
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Jerry Lee Lewis RIP
Goodness gracious great balls of fire - RIP
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........ tumbleweed moment .........
No great loss to humanity from what I've seen written about him.
No great loss to humanity from what I've seen written about him.
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Yes, a strange dilemma.Mike4 wrote:........ tumbleweed moment .........
No great loss to humanity from what I've seen written about him.
Some crimes and actions send an artist's work into oblivion, others are overlooked or tolerated. Or even ignored.
Gary Glitter, Rolf Harris and Jerry Lee Lewis. Any significant reason they are treated differently?
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Re: Jerry Lee Lewis RIP
Rather oddly there was apparently a report of his death on TMZ a couple of days earlier.
I wonder if the shock killed him?
I wonder if the shock killed him?
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Re: Jerry Lee Lewis RIP
staffordian wrote:Yes, a strange dilemma.Mike4 wrote:........ tumbleweed moment .........
No great loss to humanity from what I've seen written about him.
Some crimes and actions send an artist's work into oblivion, others are overlooked or tolerated. Or even ignored.
Gary Glitter, Rolf Harris and Jerry Lee Lewis. Any significant reason they are treated differently?
In what way are those three treated differently?
Aren't all three regarded as kiddie fiddlers?
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Jurisdiction I think would be the main differenceMike4 wrote:staffordian wrote: Yes, a strange dilemma.
Some crimes and actions send an artist's work into oblivion, others are overlooked or tolerated. Or even ignored.
Gary Glitter, Rolf Harris and Jerry Lee Lewis. Any significant reason they are treated differently?
In what way are those three treated differently?
Aren't all three regarded as kiddie fiddlers?
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Re: Jerry Lee Lewis RIP
Quite, but JLL's music is still played on the radio and TV, whereas GG's music might as well not have been written, RH's music and art never features anywhere, and Jimmy Saville apparently never introduced TOTP as far as repeats etc are concerned.Mike4 wrote:staffordian wrote: Yes, a strange dilemma.
Some crimes and actions send an artist's work into oblivion, others are overlooked or tolerated. Or even ignored.
Gary Glitter, Rolf Harris and Jerry Lee Lewis. Any significant reason they are treated differently?
In what way are those three treated differently?
Aren't all three regarded as kiddie fiddlers?
Not for a minute suggesting it should be, but why then does JLL's get shown in the same way as artists with no such baggage.
I get the practical reason for banishing them; it cuts off their royalties, but those for JLL must have rolled in unhindered.
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Ah I see, thanks.staffordian wrote:Quite, but JLL's music is still played on the radio and TV, whereas GG's music might as well not have been written, RH's music and art never features anywhere, and Jimmy Saville apparently never introduced TOTP as far as repeats etc are concerned.Mike4 wrote:
In what way are those three treated differently?
Aren't all three regarded as kiddie fiddlers?
Not for a minute suggesting it should be, but why then does JLL's get shown in the same way as artists with no such baggage.
I get the practical reason for banishing them; it cuts off their royalties, but those for JLL must have rolled in unhindered.
None of this had really penetrated my consciousness as I don't have a telly and don't listen much to music radio (other than 6 Music, and he NEVER gets played on that!)
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Re: Jerry Lee Lewis RIP
I am beginning to regret starting this thread.
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Sorry if I've derailed the thread.terminal7 wrote:I am beginning to regret starting this thread.
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I like his music, though I've probably only heard one or two of his oft repeated hits, and was for many years unaware of the scandals surrounding his private life.
I guess many "wild" rockers are less than spotless if truth be told.