Weird how so many rock stars got away with child molestation and other sex crimes beyond Michael Jackson.
Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin) basically kidnapped and held a 15 yr old girl hostage for the better part of the year while using her as his sex toy. Never charged.
Pete Townshend (The Who) got busted downloading child porn but got away with it because he claimed he was just researching it to find out how big a problem it was.
R Kelly recently got charged but for the last 20 years or so everyone has known about his underage child sex exploits and no one did anything.
Starting with Roger, heâs anti-everything when he needs to be. He plays the contrarian to up his rock image. Heâs a bit of a poser, actually. I saw him in concert on his last tour, where he spent a considerable amount of time railing on Trump. A bit of delicious irony was him, an egotistical, rich, whiny doofus whining about an egotistical, rich, whiny doofus. As far as a lyricist, heâs okay, he has his moments. But he doesnât hold a candle to someone like Neil Peart.
And regarding Jackson, itâs hard to believe that he wasnât guilty. I was always in the minority in terms of liking him as an artist. I never cared for his music. Too pop for me. Even the guitar work of folks like Eddie Van Halen, Jennifer Batten, Slash and Orithani couldnât save it for me.
There was a man in the U.K. named Jimmy Savile, he was a DJ worked for the BBC raised around 40 million pounds towards charities, mainly children hospitals before he died. He was in big even with royalty and politicians there. He was never even tried and from what I was read it was estimated to have abused over 100 children.
Yes, true. Savile was a very very prominent UK DJ in the â60s. He knew all the big UK stars, including the Beatles. Thatâs Savile in the clip below introducing the Rolling Stones at the 1964 New Musical Express Pollwinners concert. (The Stonesâ performances is wonderful, fyi.)
Ya thatâs him. The first accusation was in 1963 he managed to escape charges until after he died in 2011 in which investigations were launched a year later.
By October 2012, police were pursuing 400 lines of inquiry based on testimony from 200 witnesses via 14 police forces across the UK. They described the alleged abuse as âon an unprecedented scaleâ, and the number of potential victims as âstaggeringâ. Investigations, codenamed Operation Yewtree were opened to identify criminal conduct related to Savileâs activities by the Metropolitan Police, and to review the 2009 decision by the Crown Prosecution Service to drop a prosecution as âunlikely to succeed.â By 25 October, police reported the number of possible victims was approaching 300.
On 12 November 2012, the Metropolitan Police announced the scale of sexual allegations reported against Savile was âunprecedentedâ in Britain: a total of 450 alleged victims had contacted the police in the ten weeks since the investigation was launched. Officers recorded 199 crimes in 17 police force areas in which Savile was a suspect, among them 31 allegations of rape in seven force areas. Analysis of the report showed 82% of those who came forward to report abuse were female and 80% were children or young people at the time of the incidents.Hospital staff members claimed that Savile had told them that he engaged in necrophiliac acts with corpses in their mortuary in Leeds; Savile was friends with the chief mortician, who gave him near-unrestricted access
I donât remember hearing that last thing (ugh!), but there is footage of him with a young girl on his lap and the girl having a funny look. You can guess the rest. He was a real creep. He was knighted before his death, also. There was a huge scandal after his death on how he was sheltered from discovery. Very ugly.
Some links below for a little history. (Warning: Some of the material in the first two links describes his sexual offenses, so a word to those who might be offended.)
Sad this guy was able just to walk around and keep doing these things for decades after the first allegation. I guess itâs all who you know as well as fame and ton of cash.
I think everything just blew up at once, you have the fact a lot of us have felt that he was always guilty of sleeping with young boys, and this documentary happened to come out at the time of the metoo movement. It was the perfect storm.
We just watched âAbducted in Plain Sightâ, a documentary about a man who becomes obsessed with young girl, the child of his next door neighbor, how he befriended the parents, essentially seducing them, and then his methods of creating division between the girl and her family. There were elements of it that reminded me of what Jackson was alleged to have done.
I always knew Barbara Streisand was a bit loony, but in an interview with the Time of London she said about Michael Jackson and the victims.
âHis sexual needs were his sexual needs, coming from whatever childhood he has or whatever DNA he has," Streisand told The Times âYou can say âmolested,â but those children, as you heard say [grown-up Robson and Safechuck], they were thrilled to be there. They both married and they both have children, so it didnât kill them.â
Ya itâs really odd timing, most of us loved his work very talented. I think in the back of our minds we felt he was guilty. The whole little kid thing sleeping in the bed itâs just so hard to spin that.
Watched the first half last night, will likely hold off before watching the second half. Iâve no direct experience with sexual abuse and while I like some of MJâs music, I was never a big fan.
