Quick question (and I got flamed for this, this afternoon, without a reasonable explanation).
Why did David Bowie get a pass on shagging Maddox and Starr, who he knew to be 15 at the time, whilst Sweatless gets crucified for shagging a 17 year old?
Changing times?
Might belong on the unpopular opinions thread but, IMO, this probably never happened. Reason being the story has been told a number of times with inconsistencies that go well beyond misremembered details to the extent that it is very clearly mostly fabrication. Right down to who exactly did and didn't have sex with Bowie.
For balance, though, there's a 1980s sexual assault allegation against him which is more credible, although he got off.
It's true, though that many people will give Bowie a pass regardless of the evidence. Because if we paid attention to all the bad behaviour of musicians we'd have problems finding stuff to listen to.
Jimi Hendrix. Threw a bottle at his girlfriend's head. Serious enough that Chas Chandler decided to stop working with him.
Bill Withers. Well-documented incident of domestic violence, in newspapers at the time. Girlfriend needed hospital treatment.
Jimmy Pursey. On the sex offenders register for forcibly French kissing a woman in the street.
Edith Piaf. Performed at Nazi work camps during WW2.
Peter Tosh. Known as "Peter Touch" because he liked to grope women in the street. Apparently without complaint from Bob Marley or the other Wailers.
Ray Davies. Beat a sound technician unconscious.
John Lennon. Well-documented abusive husband.
James Brown. Convicted wife-beater.
Morrissey. You know already.
I regularly listen to music by all of these. But the list goes on.