Gary Glitter Is Too Gross For School
A music exam given to high-school students in the UK is causing quite the row for suggesting that the kids listen to a song by Gary Glitter, who just returned to the country after spending 27 months in a Vietnamese jail on sex-with-minors charges, to prepare for writing a track of their own. “Leader Of The Gang” (above) was recommended to students as an example of a song that changed tempo and/or style alongside “Reviewing The Situation” from Oliver! and Meat Loaf’s “I Would Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That).” The organization that administers the exam has since ordered that all references to the track be removed, although given that said exam is aimed at teenagers–the demographic that loves to figure out what’s behind the bleeps more than any other–and the news about this song being included is splashed all over the papers, the exact opposite of the ban’s desired result will probably happen.
This comes on the heels of Hewlett-Packard dropping an ad that featured Joan Jett’s version of the Glitter-penned “Do You Wanna Touch Me,” so I guess the outcry have been as loud if the version of “Gang” that was on the test wasn’t Gary Glitter’s, but the Spice Girls’.
Glitter hit removed from GCSE paper [PA] Gary Glitter – Leader Of The Gang [YouTube] Spice Girls – Leader Of The Gang [YouTube]
