Captain Ron

i want my rockstars to get laid and do drugs but not underage girls. don henley got busted in 1980 for having a naked 13 year old girl overdose in his house. how he beat jail i'll never know. jimmy page was notorious for sleeping with underage girls. and pete townshend, one of my heroes, recently got busted for kiddie porn. does this stuff bother anybody else? none of these guys did a day in jail. am i being too prudish? **** bothers me

Janszoon

Yes, that stuff bothers me, but I generally try to separate the art from the artist in my mind.

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TockTockTock

Pretty much this... Although, I'm not always successful.


That whole situation involving Townshend is a bit sketchy. It was never completely proven he had possession of child pornography. He was apparently doing research or something for his "campaign" against kittie porn...

As for Page... I've never really liked him all that much anyways (Led Zeppelin is good, though).

Paedantic Basterd

I try to do this, by trying to know nothing of the personal lives of the musicians I listen to.

starrynight

Of course, though fanboys will find that hard. Though they probably just deny the allegations anyway in most cases.

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djchameleon

Majority of the time when you have money, you can pay off the right people and get away with nasty illegal crap like that.


To answer your question, yes it's quite disturbing and it bothers me to.

It's really hard to separate artist from personal life when they do things that extreme

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Fame, fortune, power, titties. People say these are the most crucial things in life, but you can have a pocket full o' gold and it doesn't mean sh*t if you don't have someone to share that gold with. Seems simple. Yet it's an important lesson to learn. Even lone wolves run in packs sometimes.

Lisnaholic

Yes, it`s worrying when much-admired rockstars do something indefensible. One of the earliest culprits was Jerry Lee Lewis, who, back in 1956, married his own cousin`s 13 year-old daughter. Among other things, his action poses the moral dilemma : if you want to have sex with a minor, does marriage make it less, or actually more, offensive ?

Not everyone escapes jail, though. Gary Glitter and Jonathan King both spent time behind bars, as did Mexico`s own Gloria Trevi, whose surreal story can be read about, at length, here:-

Slick Transit Gloria - New York Times

Captain Ron

i never heard that about johnathan king before. he's the guy who discovered genesis. maybe he was secretly sexually attracted to them. they were all 15 or 16 at the time he discovered them

OccultHawk

I'm much more offended by their carbon footprints, especially Bono's.

Neapolitan

They gave him a tape, it wasn't like he discovered them playing at a gig something along that line. They knew he knew something about the music business and thought he could help them out.

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