It is amazingly simple to make a giant leap from a fairly mundane chat about songs from the 60s and 70s to suddenly find yourself in a discussion about paedophiles.
I’m not suggesting this was a chat over a pint in a pub. I’m not even sure that people discuss pop songs and paedophilia in pubs these pubs.
The chat in question was on an internet group reminiscing about growing up in the 60s, and the sort of music people enjoyed.
A quite anodyne chat about songs of the 1960s suddenly turned into a trawl amongst the lyrics with a suggestion that many of them would fail to get any airtime in these “enlightened ” days.
There were the usual suspects of course, Gary Glitter and Rolf Harris for example, but these were actually based on the men themselves.
Admittedly there were songs which nowadays would be blacklisted.
I was just surprised that anyone could think “Young Girl” by Gary Puckett and the Union Gap, or “Does Your Mothr Know” by ABBA could be considered subjects of a ban based on lyrics.
In both cases the songs are based on a man telling a young girl that he believes her to be under the age required to have sex.
He recognises that he has strong feelings for her but knows he cannot start a relationship.
There are far worse songs these days that even seem to imply violence, rape or even murder against women.
Don’t destroy our memories of a time when musicians knew how to make music and singers could sing in tune.
Robin's Nest 