I did not stop listening to RA. I still purchase his albums digitally. He completed a successful solo tour of the US last night.
I don't like living in an age of trial by social media. As far as I understand it, the FBI looked into the allegations made against him and came up empty.
For example, I still listen to Thriller often. Its a brilliant album of perfect pop.
As @Bosstralian says above, imagine everything the likes of the Stones, Led Zep and say Black Sabbath got up to in the Seventies became known? They would probably make Cosby look like a saint.
Music is art. Like Stevie says, trust the art, not the artist.
But in the case of RA, until he is actually charged or sentenced with a crime, I will continue to support him.
Again, everyone draws the line in different places. But I want to point out that the Stones actually stopped playing "Brown Sugar" live as of a few years ago, and even before that, changed the lyrics to make them at least marginally less offensive.
They would probably make Cosby look like a saint.
I understand the point you were going for, but yeah, I'm going to say that from everything that's come out about those bands over the decades, it seems highly HIGHLY unlikely that their unquestionably terrible behavior ever got to his level. It's extremely unlikely they were even as bad, much less so much worse that it makes a serial rapist—including child sexual assault—look good.
(Which is not meant, in any way, to downplay the abhorrent, egregious and likely felonious behavior in which they sometimes (regularly?) engaged.)
I did not stop listening to RA. I still purchase his albums digitally. He completed a successful solo tour of the US last night.
I don't like living in an age of trial by social media. As far as I understand it, the FBI looked into the allegations made against him and came up empty.
For example, I still listen to Thriller often. Its a brilliant album of perfect pop.
As @Bosstralian says above, imagine everything the likes of the Stones, Led Zep and say Black Sabbath got up to in the Seventies became known? They would probably make Cosby look like a saint.
Music is art. Like Stevie says, trust the art, not the artist.
But in the case of RA, until he is actually charged or sentenced with a crime, I will continue to support him.