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HP Pulls Ads Featuring Song By Disgraced Rocker

by Lee Bains on November 14, 2008 at 09:30 AM



Due to popular complaint, Hewlett-Packard (HP) has pulled advertisements for the TouchSmart computer that featured a Gary Glitter song, WEBN.com reports. The song in question, 'Do You Wanna Touch Me,' was performed by Joan Jett in the version used for the advertisement, but was originally written by Gary Glitter, a '70s glam rocker and convicted sex offender.

Glitter, who is best known in the U.S. for the basketball arena anthem 'Rock and Roll, Part 2,' has been convicted of possessing child pornography in the U.K., and just recently served prison time in Vietnam for molesting two underage girls.

Having received an undisclosed number of complaints about the use of Glitter's song, Hewlett-Packard pulled the commercial, claiming that the corporation was not aware of Glitter's songwriting credit on the song.

For our part, we've been saying for years that 'Rock and Roll, Part 2' should never again be played at sporting events, as much because of Glitter's despicable crimes as because of that song's being freaking obnoxious. [From: WEBN.com]

Tags: advertising, crime, expire-images2009-11-13, gary glitter, GaryGlitter, hp, music

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