Neil Sedaka closed this week's Sounds of the Sixties with his enchanting song, the lyrics of which today would be considered paedophile and would probably earn him 7 years inside.

What has happened to our species over the past five decades? Why have we come to assume the worst in human nature? Whatever happened to innocence, purity, love?

Well, a lot can be blamed on the absurd attitude to homosexuality, as rife then as it is now but totally illegal when Neil wrote that song and illegal for anyone of 16 or 17 until two days after my arrest in 2000. Which is, of course, why all the claims of "paedophilia" in the Westminster/Dolphin Square fiasco are about gay sex. There was, of course, no heterosexual paedophilia until Savile. It's the lack of brain cells in modern humanity that worries me most.

Then there's poor old Ringo. He's never had that many hit songs to sing so it must have hurt to drop 'You're Sixteen' from his set. (FYI, Daily Mail and MWT: many commercial stations used to play this song, not just the Beeb, so maybe have a shufti at Capital and Co, eh?)

Gary Puckett

The Knack. My Sharona

Ringo. Your Sixteen

The Drifters. when my little girls is smiling. Kissing in the back row.

just a few songs to get you labled and locked up.

I loved it when MWT was twittering how much he loved Elvis until another tweetster pointed out he married a 14yr old !

JK, as ever.

For some irrational reason continues to mistake the UK for 'modern humanity' and the entire 'species'.

Yet, as JK well knows from his many friends in modern Europe, NONE of this exists in truly 'modern' mainland EU.

Where JK and thousands more would never have been wrongly convicted, nor even investigated on NO evidence False Allegations!

not to mention Ringo and You're 16, you're beautiful and you're mine..

There's also the "Sexy Little Schoolgirls" line in Kinky Boots

and of "Little Children won't you play with me" by Billy J Kramer & The Dakotas

MCR wrote:
There's also the "Sexy Little Schoolgirls" line in Kinky Boots

and of "Little Children won't you play with me" by Billy J Kramer & The Dakotas

I wonder if the Furey's will drop it the song ?

And Rod Stewart and this one





Good morning little schoolgirl
Good morning little schoolgirl
Can I come home with, can I come home with you?
Tell your mama and your papa
I once was a schoolboy too

Sometimes I don't know what
Sometimes I don't know what
What in the world, what in the world to do?
Oh I don't want to hurt your feelings
Or even get mad at you at all

I'm gonna buy me an airplane
I'm gonna buy me an airplane
Fly right over, fly right over town
If I don't find my baby
Ain't gonna put my airplane down

Come on little schoolgirl
Come on little schoolgirl
Can I come home with, can I come home with you?
Tell your mama and your papa
I once was a schoolboy too

Songwriters
SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON