^ thisI'm not defending (and could never defend anyway) what he's done since, but I'm old enough to remember the hype surrounding him in the early 70s. I was more into Captain Beefheart myself, but Gary Glitter appealed to the type of kid who today would probably be goths and emos.
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Ptolemy the man with the silent pea,
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