I’m surprised if anybody of my advanced years hadn’t already heard of the DJ’s disgusting practices during the ’60s and ’70s. As a family man with a Yorkshire spouse, based oop narth and inevitably aware of ‘pop’ culture, not least from my children’s conversations, I certainly knew that he had a ‘dodgy’ reputation among teenage girls. For all his much-vaunted good deeds as an unpaid porter at Leeds Infirmary, he was widely reputed to have ‘unusual’ sexual preferences. The fact that he was never nailed for them was probably due to the laissez faire attitude surrounding the whole entertainment industry at the time – and before the social media even existed to report what was really going on. It is a moot point whether the higher echelons of the BBC were aware of Savile’s activities or even considered them their business. Weird was (and still is) very good for audience ratings.
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It must have been about 1970. I was working for a firm of typesetters in Aberdeen who specialised in medical text books. I was the only person there with a decent accent apart from the boss so I was given the dubious pleasure of all the liaison work with the London publishing houses. This entailed running up and down to London virtually every week using the sleepers so I didn’t waste time.
Once when coming North the train was extremely crowded I had to share a table at dinner and who should be put opposite me but Jimmy Savile. What a creep! Total slime ball, fortunately I was all of 25 and thus far too old and suitably quelling besides. I knew he was a TV personality but apart from that had absolutely no idea who he was or what he did, at the time I did not own a TV. I was aware that he was well liked and for the life of me could not reconcile what I had heard with what I met that evening, not that I gave it a second thought at the time.
Makes sense 40 years later though!
PS I cannot understand why this was not pursued when he was alive, quite pointless now. Unless some of the women hope to sue his estate?
There seems to be a ‘forgotten’ daughter who is already doing that, dna and all. I hope his other victims also get something back.
Recent interviews with his contemporaries point out that ‘you didn’t mess with him’ – suggesting he was a nasty piece of work who’d stoop to anything.
News to me! But, I thought he was ‘creepy’ on TV!
Odious man, I couldn’t stand him, but I hadn’t heard of any of this, Janus.
There were lots of rumours about Savile over quite a long period of time, as I recall.
Personally, I won’t hear a bad word said against Jimmy Saville. When I was 9 he fixed it for me to go camping with Gary Glitter.
I wonder now whether his coffin position, at 45 degrees (so the sea could be in view, ) will be moved so that he faces the centre of gravity.
Whoa! They were mates, I have read, but only GG took the heat.
Can’t say I ever liked him, but it is a shame that he is being pursued now that he is dead and cannot defend himself.
I see one of the women complaining went back a number of times to his dressing room. I have no doubt he did have sex with these girls but he was young then as well and it was the 60’s and though some were not 16 what did they think was going to happen.
When I was 15/16 I went to see Top of the Pops 2 or 3 times and there were signs saying you had to be 16 or 18 (can’t remember) to enter. So I suppose if a girl was there then Savile could say he though they were 16 plus. I can recall the girls that were there all throwing themselves at all the DJ’s, bands and camera men to get themselves noticed. This is not defending him just stating the other side to it.
Finally what’s the point now he is rotting in his grave.
Well, Sipu, thank you. It is aprivilege to be repeatedly insulted by a person like you, whose moral standards are more arbitrary than the wind. What on earth were your friends thinking of, allowing a daughter to be mauled by a lion? Oh, sorry, is that somehow a distasteful question? I wonder why?
PS the phrase is ‘whited sepulchre’. I doubt whether you realise how hypocritical you are to accuse anyone else of such an attitude.
Now, no, boys, play nice – you’ll have the girls laughing at us.