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TV3 apologises for airing song by convicted sex offender Gary Glitter

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Cranster

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TV3 has apologised for airing a song from disgraced rocker Gary Glitter after Ian Dempsey called out the station for the use of the convicted paedophile’s music. A clip of the English singer’s 1973 hit ‘Come On, Come In, Get On’ was used during a segment on Thursday’s The Six O’Clock Show.

It played over a feature about bread making at this year’s National Ploughing Championships in Offaly.

Shortly following the clip, Today FM radio host Ian Dempsey hit out over the track’s use – posting that Glitter music’s was “brown bread”, slang for dead, to him.

He wrote: “Ah here lads @TV3Ireland Gary Glitter music on the Telly #brownbreadtome.”

Glitter, real name Paul Gadd, is serving 16 years behind bars after he was caged in 2015 for a string of sexual assault offences including the attempted rape of a minor and one count of having sex with a girl under the age of 13.

The convicted child molester, 73, recently failed to have this sentence overturn and is expected to die in prison. A TV3 spokeswoman told the Irish Sun that the station’s use of his music this week as “an error” and that it was “very sorry for any offence caused”.

It is unclear how much the disgraced glam rocker has made in royalties since his conviction but the figure is believed to be in the hundreds of thousands as his music is still regularly played in America. His song Rock and Roll Part 2 is regularly played at US football, basketball and ice hockey games when a team scores.

The singer, who had 26 hit singles over 23 years, is said to have earned €340,000 in 2013 due to his music being used in a trailer for the Oscar-nominated movie Silver Linings Playbook.

Gary Glitter’s ‘fall from grace’ first began following his convicted in 1999 for downloading over 4,000 images and videos of child porn. After serving four months behind bars in the UK, he left the country to live in Southeast Asia, where in 2006 he was jailed in Vietnam for 26 months for abusing two girls, aged ten and 11.
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https://www.thesun.ie/tvandshowbiz/...coverage-of-national-ploughing-championships/

How is his music still being aired is my question?
 
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NYCmetsfan

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I never knew this about him.

I can't imagine sports arena's not playing rock and roll part 2 though that is iconic to sports in the US

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-hB1TzoG7M

Seems like this news never crossed the pond and becuase his most famous US song is instrumental nobody seemed to notice

as this article points out

http://www.billboard.com/biz/articl...onvicted-child-sex-offender-gary-glitters-hey

Seven Nation Army and Gold on the Ceiling have begun to replace it. I've heard that Kernkraft 400 song too
 
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Cranster

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NYCmetsfan said:
I never knew this about him.

I can't imagine sports arena's not playing rock and roll part 2 though that is iconic to sports in the US

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-hB1TzoG7M

Seems like this news never crossed the pond and becuase his most famous US song is instrumental nobody seemed to notice

as this article points out

http://www.billboard.com/biz/articl...onvicted-child-sex-offender-gary-glitters-hey

Seven Nation Army and Gold on the Ceiling have begun to replace it. I've heard that Kernkraft 400 song too
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It's probably a good thing as the last thing he needs is more people buying his music.
 
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Jeff-DSA

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It is unclear how much the disgraced glam rocker has made in royalties since his conviction but the figure is believed to be in the hundreds of thousands as his music is still regularly played in America. His song Rock and Roll Part 2 is regularly played at US football, basketball and ice hockey games when a team scores.
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No, it's actually been played more in the past during extended timeouts, like between quarters or something like that. It's also not very common to hear it anymore, but yeah, it used to get played quite a bit.
 
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Goldenroad

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I still hear Rick James, R Kelly, Michael Jackson, Phil Spector, Ike Turner and many other notable shitbags on the radio. I know that "conviction" is maybe the operative word, but come on...you're telling me you won't watch Naked Gun anymore because of OJ?
 
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Cranster

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Hollywood Duo said:
I don't see the problem in playing his music. Art transcends its creator.
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It's more an issue that he gets royalties from it. When he is dead and gone that will be different, but even then I can't listen to his music without cringing. Try listening to Do You Want To Touch Me or I'm The Leader of The Gang without cringing. Also, looking a this stuff makes it even worse...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ2p8_4pqTI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJBNdCncsrE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_hwJyL-XGY
 
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NoblesseOblige

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Hollywood Duo said:
I don't see the problem in playing his music. Art transcends its creator.
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I mean that's fine, but so is apologizing because you inadvertently supported a sex offender in royalties.

Goldenroad said:
but come on...you're telling me you won't watch Naked Gun anymore because of OJ?
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He doesn't get paid by you watching it in your living room. A station airing someone's music usually means they had to give royalties somewhere.
 
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Skellig Gra

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Cranster said:
It's more an issue that he gets royalties from it. When he is dead and gone that will be different, but even then I can't listen to his music without cringing. Try listening to Do You Want To Touch Me or I'm The Leader of The Gang without cringing.
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Fair point. Should have been part of the sentence to send his royalties to abuse victims.
NoblesseOblige said:
I mean that's fine, but so is apologizing because you inadvertently supported a sex offender in royalties.
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Agreed. I don't have any issues with people who do want to take a moral stand and boycott his music. I just don't find the act of playing it particularly malicious.
 
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Skellig Gra

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Ekai said:
Then I guess you also won't see the problem in a pos like this gaining millions (or whatever the hell he makes) so he can have more power in society.
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He's most likely going to die in prison so not much power there. Im taking it more from an artistic appreciation. Evaluate it for what it is. I understand where the opposite viewpoint is coming from too.
 
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Cranster

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border said:
Are they going to have to stop playing music by The Who and David Bowie as well?
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I don't know why people keep bringing up The Who as Pete Townshend's incident was a mistake as it was determined the pornographic content he was accessing was not child porn and was just regular porn. As for David Bowie, he was enevr charged or convicted of any such crimes.
 
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Dirtyshubb

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Funny story, my dad was a studio technician for some of glitters songs. He told me one time glitter was high on coke, crying to my dad about how great he had made him sound.

Of course once his horrible crimes had come to light the fact my dad briefly worked with him wasn't something you could brag about.
 
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DoctorManhattan

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Cranster said:
I don't know why people keep bringing up The Who as Pete Townshend's incident was a mistake as it was determined the pornographic content he was accessing was not child porn and was just regular porn. As for David Bowie, he was enevr charged or convicted of any such crimes.
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Is this the same sting that implicated Robert Del Naja?
 
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peteykirch

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Still find it hilarious watching a PSU Football game and hearing Gary Glitter being blasted in the background.

Talk about bad optics all around.
 
s_mirage

s_mirage

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DoctorManhattan said:
Is this the same sting that implicated Robert Del Naja?
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Yes, I think so. There was pretty strong criticism of the handling of that operation. IIRC, the police initially didn't bother to check if credit cards had been used fraudulently, or whether suspects had actually accessed anything illegal, and then didn't bother to inform suspects/victims when it was eventually determined that their card details had been stolen.

People killed themselves because the police didn't do their jobs properly.
 
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