Short answer: no. But having Joaquin Phoenix dance around to disgraced glam-rocker Gary Glitter's 'Rock and Roll Part 2' was a loaded directorial decision.
.” When the filmmakers were assured that no one connected to Manson would receive royalties, they moved forward.
“Gary Glitter does not get paid,” said a spokesman for Snapper in London who asked to remain anonymous. “We’ve had no contact with him.” The song consistently attracted filmmakers and TV showrunners long before “Joker,” landing in “Meet the Fockers,” “Boyhood,” “South Park” and “The Office.” “People generally come to us,” added the spokesman. “We don’t promote it at all.”
Gary Glitter is escorted by policemen outside the People’s Supreme Court in Ho Chi Minh City in 2006. after his appeal. He was serving time in a Vietnamese prison for child sexual molestation. “He was quite a startling figure, sort of absurd yet menacing,” says critic Simon Reynolds, author of “Shock and Awe: Glam Rock and Its Legacy.” “The music had an undeniable strangeness to it.” The later revelations about Glitter’s sexual crimes, Reynolds adds, “ruined a lot of people’s pop memories.”
The force of his most ardent fans and outspoken family members has successfully derailed significant damage to Jackson’s commercial legacy so far. “Even with the documentary, I’m still hearing it,” says Tiffany Anders, a music supervisor on the TV series “PEN15” and “Sorry for Your Loss.” “I’m still getting pitched Michael Jackson like nothing has happened.
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