OK, I'm now officially in shock - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-20618520 What the Hell is going on? I've heard of chickens coming home to roost, but it feels like in the last couple of months, the whole sodding coop's landed all at once. I think the late sixties and early seventies were my life's favourite period - to see them crumbling like this is deeply disturbing - any other Addicks or visitors of a similar vintage to me feeling the same about all this?
When I was at school we used to use the names 'Savile' and 'Cyril' as insults. 'You're a right Cyril, you are!' 'He's a right old Savile, that one!' Weird, eh?
Yes indeed, Ponders. Private Eye was carrying the stories about Cyril Smith 25, 30 years ago - why didn't anyone do anything? Ye gods.
Good question typical. I remember a quote from John Lennon about the availability of women once The Beatles had become famous - "It was like being on a f*****g moving train, you just couldn't get off". Once worked with a bloke who'd roadied for Hendrix, the Herd and then The Stones - he estimated he'd slept with 800 women in three years, and he was just in the road crew. Heard a similar story from a guy who worked as a stage electrician on a 'boy band' tour - all the band were gay, so the roadies got the pick of the girls. Hundreds of them. Apologies if this offends anyone, particularly lady Addicks - different time, different atmosphere.
Nice one Cyril, nice one Stan, lets have another one? I thought they were singing about scoring- which they kinda were....
We grew up in a innocent decade. In the 70s teachers used to cane you bare arsed. Sometimes they even got you to drop your pants. There was no Esther Rantzen, no child line, catholic priests could abuse children with impunity and rape was almost an unprovable crime. Morcombe and Wise shared a bed. Even Brian Moore that hard ruby player was abused. He like many others knew nobody would believe him. Royals banged villains and every scandal that could be hid was hid. Save for a few political scandals nothing came out. Even Basil Brush's catchphrase "bum bum" was a cry for help.
Yeah TA know what you mean - the pill coming freely available in the mid sixties made girls, young or old, more free with their 'favours' great time to be a young buck added to that the music then, it was a truly magical time - or am I looking back through rose tinted spectacles? But there have always been perverted things going on with the rich and famous this is only the tip of the iceberg.
I am really pleased that people like Saville, Cyril Smith are being exposed for the scum that they were.It is just a pity that they are not alive today to face the consequences.Like Typical says it was a different age where these powerful figures could do what they liked.Many lives have been scarred and affected by paodophiles who have been allowed to continue with their vile antics without being brought to justice.At last the Police are investigating fully and I am sure that many more people will be exposed.
I'm in the middle of Brian Moore's incredibly honest book "Beware of the Dog" and it is clear that the schoolmaster who abused him knew full well he could get away with it, not only with Moore but God knows how many others. And Savile was so widely known as a child molester that the porters at one of his hospitals would go round warning the kids when he was about so that they could pretend to be asleep. But Stuart Hall? He of the Shakesperian voice? I've always enjoyed his reports, and to see him as a child-molester now is deeply shocking. I imagine it makes it worse for the victim when the abuser is a respected public figure, able to preen to the nation in front of the mike, or the cameras.
There is an even more surprising name going round Twitter....think of a very famous entertainer (at that time) who did not come from these shores! Very very surprising if true Yee gods!!
Max Clifford has been arrested. The Police call these crimes 'historic'. I bet the victims don't see it as 'historic'. They must suffer the same torment and fear as if it were yesterday. Tragic.
I don't suppose this is the end of this story, just the beginning of the end - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-22379286 Naive though it may sound, my shock still hasn't lessened, in fact with every famous name that emerges in these investigations, it seems get worse. I mean Rolf Harris, for goodness' sake - who on Earth next?
