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I did show the video to a Beatles I know. He still thinks Lennon is straight. No straight guy would lash out like he did to Bob Wooler then mention the 'Fag in me' to justify the violence.
Talking about alphabet musicians Lou Reed, sounds like every New Yorker I have met, they are quick tempered loud, obnoxious, arrogant narrow minded and only their opinions is correct. However they are interesting people.
Awful piece again by Vice.
Also I bet Lou Reed sang what he witnessed in New York, like the whores, violence, mindless attacks on women, endless trails of heroin needles and rent boys.
Yes Jo I'm sure there are many who invent or exaggerate for various reasons. But I think there are also those whose minor encounters get genuinely inflated in their own minds and the enhanced memories become as true to them as reality.
And I think it does nobody any favours to assume people were "totally" innocent.
I'm a Prime Example.
I knew I was breaking the law at the time, considering it absurd that the age of consent for males was 21 where for females it was 16.
I'm sure Rolf, like Jimmy, was "touchy feely". Generally well intentioned - perhaps every now and then crossing the socially accepted line. Easily done.
Judging THEN by the laws and morality of NOW can be very dangerous.
I strongly suggest you watch my series.
Jo
That Daily Mail article also refers to Vanessa Feltz's accusations against Rolf Harris. I just don't believe that he could have, live on camera, surrepticiously inched his hand up her leg to her knickers, gathering the material as he went, when she was wearing a heavily beaded and what looks like figure-hugging dress weighed down by her ample bulk. In the photo she also has her legs tucked up under her and pointing away from him. He'd have had to lean over her and wrestle his way up the dress. For him to even access her ankles, she'd either have had to be facing away from him with her feet pointing towards him or lying flat on her back with her legs straight out, neither of which seems likely if she was interviewing him. As far as I'm aware, no footage of the encounter has ever emerged. I wonder why.
There used to be a video on YouTube of her being interviewed on the red carpet at the premiere of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, about conmen, with a story of how she was conned by doorstep salesmen who did her roof. I wondered if she had a ready anecdote for every occasion.
Jo
I expect that getting compensation or media payouts would encourage false accusers to appear to be convinced of what they're saying.
It seems that Karen Gardner was in the ITV programme, and spoke out yet again when Rolf Harris died. Photos/video clip of her here: