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I was talking about this with a friend years ago how fucking common it was for the classic rockstars (mostly of previous generations to what we listened to, but sadly some more recent too) to be full on pedos. I did a little bit of reading on the subject and it is gut-churning. Not just how ubiquitous it was, but also how largely accepted it was (and continues to be), and also how severe so much of it was.

"Separate art from artist" mantra chanting isn't new, though it got reworded a few times. In my youth I was told that in "different times" (often "better times" according to not-as-old boomers around me!) that was normal and cool and good and "political correctness" (what is now called "DEI" and used to be called "woke" and before that "SJW") is the reason that they can't have as much "fun" as they used to, like when Playboy Magazine had articles where predatory old men described, openly, how much they wanted to violate child actresses of that current time.

Your list of musicians that I didn't yet know were predators will take some time for me to sort through. Fuck's sake, even the Eagles...