Monday saw channel 4 broadcast 'The Execution Of Gary Glitter'
That night I walked down to Frome Gallows tree wher many had met thier end.
I painted a ring of PVA round the lynching branch, where the rope marks can still faintly be seen and sprinkled a cicle, a perpendicular halo of glitter. Fortunately the weather heald back and the glitter hoop remains.
A strange week followed, weighing up my feelings about my childhood hero and his betrayal of others childhood and by association , in some way mine.
Friday night, the One Show on BBC1, Noddy Holder chose this outing and interview to launch his new album. As we all know 'Merry christmas evrybody' is Noddys biggest annual payday. After a drunken night in Wolverhampton Noddy went home to sleep it off at his folks house. Playing with a Jimmy Lee riff he came up with the Christmas Carol for the secular.
It is far from being the best work of the Slade.
Slade, though written out of history due to reasons of class and percieved musical artistic hierarchies, are the greatest band of the 70s, only the Pistols come close. Thier technical excellence is usually overlooked. Check out thier live performance of 'How does it feel' on the Russell Harty show. Dave Hill could play base so well though a lead guitarist as Jim Lee plays piano. This is the first song Jim ever wrote though they never used it till Flame in 1975
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