New documentary accuses music industry of normalising rock star relationships with teenage girls in 70s and 80s
completemusicupdate.comA new documentary set to air tonight includes accounts of how the music industry turned a blind eye to rock stars engaging in sexual relationships with teenage girls in the 1970s and 1980s.
Among the musicians discussed in ‘Look Away’ are Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler and Guns N Roses’ Axl Rose.“There are so many stories”, director Sophie Cunningham tells Sky News. “So many I was just not able to tell – and that’s because of money and power – success and celebrity goes a hell of a long way to keeping people quiet”.It seems like the music industry “hasn’t yet had its #MeToo moment and I think [it] desperately requires it”, she goes on. “I think a lot of the times the artists themselves have written about their escapades with their girlfriends, or.
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