Remembering a person just for one thing is silly in my opinion. You have to look at their life as a whole. I don't see us remembering Hitler for making brown shirts the shirt to wear or for making small black moustaches popular. Do they remember him for his artworks for instance?
Is this a serious comparison?
The man responsible for the systematic slaughter of in excess of ten million people purely for existing and a man who's certainly bizarre but has never actually been convicted of any crime and has had the kid that caused the whole malarky come out and say he was lying?
Really?
As for Gary Glitter, I dunno? But everyone seems to have forgiven Pete Townsend pretty quick. I wonder if he's ever going to release that book? Nobody makes a fuss about Jerry Lee Lewis either come to think of it.
And outwith music, we've got terrorists who became presidents and are loved across the west enough that Del boy lived in places named after them.
I'm kinda getting of the point, but end of the day, plenty folks guilty of heinous crimes are praised, Michael Jackson wasn't ever found guilty of anything, and the poor weirdo's name will be mud forever.
