There must be some worried star names at the BBC right now in the light of the ongoing crisis surrounding paedophile and rapist Jimmy Saville.
Another DJ who is being accused beyond the grave is John Peel but to imply that his past misdemeanours are comparable to the cynical abuse carried out by Savile is farcical.
Peel admitted that he had sex with young girls and joked fairly salaciously that he never asked for ID. This prompted Julie Burchill to write a savage article about him while he was still alive. I strongly disagree with Burchill on this but it has to be admitted her rage against the hypocrisies within male dominated institutions now sounds very topical. Continue reading
Nick Kent was the “Zeitgeist-surfing dark prince of seventies rock journalism”. This is how he describes himself with only the vaguest of self mockery in his memoir of the decade entitled Apathy For The Devil.
