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Topic History of: SHAM 69 on the BBC? Max. showing the last 5 posts - (Last post first)
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Chris Retro
It would that Jimmy's Sham rival ('Tim V') is also a keen subscriber to some of the looniest conspiracy forums, one of those who froths at the mouth about teachers eating babies in Hamstead McDonalds & light entertainers worshiping the devil.... what a tangled web. Poor old Pursey.
JK2006
Minor indeed (one of mine was placing a hand on the knee of a teenager - originally claimed to be 12 but proved and admitted to be over 16, who I had never met - who then ran out of my house and never saw me again. How minor can you get these days?).
robbiex
I don't agree with the censorship either, however I imagine Jimmy Pursey's crime must have been relatively minor if he got away with a caution. I wasn't even aware that he had this caution until I read this post, and I'm pretty clued up about these things so there wouldn't be that many complaints if he his shown.
Chris Retro
I'm currently thumbing through my collection of 90s magazines - an entire decade's worth of Q, Select & Vox, and Loaded & Mixmag 94-00. I'm not going to pretend everything in the garden was rosy then, but when reviewing what is culturally the very recent past through what was published and not now, it is astonishing just how much things have deteriorated. In terms of trusting the readers/consumers to be both intelligent and discerning and to understand the nuances of humour & irony. It was probably the apex of the lessons learned in the 60s, 70s & 80s and as such prudish ridiculous notions such as banning pop records or television shows were considered laughable in the main - the situation we have now was unimaginable to us unless it was cloaked in some apocalyptic conspiracy theory. My generation never had it so good in that sense, but were we also responsible for throwing it away by allowing ourselves to collectively be fattened up and blinded by greed and consumerism, effectively aiding the destruction of the liberal and cultured society we had grown up in?
The notion of retrospectively censoring pop music or harmless ephemeral television and radio is utter lunacy, and smacks not just of stupidity but of deliberate destruction.
Yesterday my friend who admins the TOTP Facebook page received death threats for posting a video with a 7 second link by Jimmy Savile. The irony of the offending link being a track called "All Out To Get You (all over nothing)" would no doubt be completely lost on the idiots
JK2006
It's the deprived listeners/viewers I feel sorry for.
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