In the past few days, it has emerged that all royalties are likely to go not to the jailed rocker, but to Universal Music Publishing Group and a number of other associated parties, which bought the rights to the track more than two decades ago.īut that hasn’t stopped Rock and Roll Part 2 from being on the receiving end of plenty of vitriolic tut-tutting from the social media galleries.
YOUTUBE GARY GLITTER ROCK AND ROLL MOVIE
He is also thought to be in line for music royalties depending on the success of movie theatre ticket sales, DVD sales and film soundtrack sales.”
Glitter’s instrumental soundtracks one of Joker‘s standout scenesĪs CNBC reported during the week of the film’s release, “Glitter, whose real name is Paul Gadd, is reportedly expected to receive a lump sum for allowing the recording to be used in Joker. Violence aside, an aspect of the movie that has similarly earned plenty of column inches is the use of Rock and Roll Part 2, a single by disgraced former glam rock star Gary Glitter, in one of its most iconic scenes. Not one to bring the kiddies to, in other words. Film critic Peter Bradshaw, reviewing the movie for The Guardian, highlighted the “ terrible revenge bloodbath” that concludes proceedings, while Vanity Fair even suggested that the film could be interpreted as offering justification for mass shootings. Phoenix excels as Arthur Fleck, a social outcast-cum-antihero that seeks social salvation through violence.Īnd Joker is nothing if not brutal. Joaquin Phoenix’s stunning reinterpretation of Batman’s arch nemesis the Joker, in the recently-released film of the same name, has rightly been lauded as one of the performances of the year. “Is it just me, or is it getting crazier out there.?”
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