It's such a strange issue. The artist and the art have always needed to be seperated, when it comes to violence and sociopathic crime. Caravaggio for example. Or Alan Davies. Er... It's going to be very interesting when Chuck Berry dies (basically in the next 12 months - those ATP guys better have insurance). One of the most important and influential figures in popular music yet no one who ever encountered him has anything better to say about him than he's a vile human being (and not just the ladies he filmed going to the toilet). And if Phil Spector is eventually sent down for shooting a whore in the face, there's no way we'll give up his music in the way that we did Gary Glitter. On the other hand, I remember a conversation with Harvey about Charles Manson's song Look At Your Game Girl. Despite the relative merits of the song, Harvey pointed out that there were enough great songs out there not to have to listen to one by a mass murderer.
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It's going to be very interesting when Chuck Berry dies (basically in the next 12 months - those ATP guys better have insurance). One of the most important and influential figures in popular music yet no one who ever encountered him has anything better to say about him than he's a vile human being (and not just the ladies he filmed going to the toilet). And if Phil Spector is eventually sent down for shooting a whore in the face, there's no way we'll give up his music in the way that we did Gary Glitter. On the other hand, I remember a conversation with Harvey about Charles Manson's song Look At Your Game Girl. Despite the relative merits of the song, Harvey pointed out that there were enough great songs out there not to have to listen to one by a mass murderer.