I Didn't Know I Loved You Til I Saw You Rock & Roll

Oh why did Gary Glitter have to go and be a bloody paedophile?

His 1985 tour de force Another Rock & Roll Christmas popped up on the ipod this morning and it really is such a belter. Really that goes for all his songs, but this one's a seasonal corker now banished into exile. It's such a shame you never hear it on the radio amid the Merry Christmas Everyones and Silver Bells. You used to of course, but then he blew it by becoming a vile-looking kiddie fiddler and that put the tin lid on that. Stupid fucker. Still, at times like this we must separate the rhyme from the crime and get on with it.

On a similar note, I'm amazed, thinking back, that Jonathan King never released a Christmas song. His superior take on the novelty song would have been an absolute shoo-in.

And there's more from me later. In the meantime, listen if you dare!