Ce titre est disponible sur l'album "The Very Best of Gilbert O'Sullivan - A Singer and His Songs". This is a real relationship involving two people and each contributes and benefits differently. # 11; All of that being said, is it to be assumed that O’Sullivan’s ode to a beloved child is an open and blatant admission of a pedophilic attraction to a small girl, and if so, how did it fail to make waves when it was released? # 43; 1975 # 93; In late 1972 pop musician Gilbert O’Sullivan released a winning ode to a girl he greatly adored, Clair Mills. # 55; ln Waterford, O'Sullivan's father worked in a meat factory while his mother ran a sweet shop. Ecoutez GILBERT O'SULLIVAN - Clair sur Hotmixradio. # 3; Is it people like Sturges or O’Sullivan? Almost without exception, these situations involve desperate people that, because of their life circumstances, are not capable of engaging in and appreciating more sophisticated relationships. # 56; O'Sullivan followed "Alone again" success with the songs "Clair" (1972, from the album Back To Front), which reached No. But try as hard as I might do, I don't know why. Now, before I go on, let me offer a little, er . # 67; Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. Top 100 ChartsRock & Roll ChartsR&B ChartsCountry ChartsBrazil Charts 1977 It had to be so, it couldn't be … # 40; En 2011, Gilbert O'Sullivan confie la gestion de sa discographie à Union Square Music qui doit ressortir l'ensemble de ses albums. # 73; In any other context such thinking would be immediately and correctly aligned with a totalitarian worldview. Clair The moment I met you, I swear. # 88; # 54; # 14; In the case of O’Sullivan and Mills, we are dealing with people with some leisure, who can enjoy the pleasures of life and have the ability to express compassion. Biographie Modèle: Dans Alone Again Naturally, Gilbert O'Sullivan raconte que son père est … Unfortunately, there are people out there on which the facetious nature of the above paragraph will be entirely lost. # 30; Even one who is generally good with children would likely have a special bond with a particular favorite and with whom there is a strong reciprocity. Gilbert O'Sullivan, de son vrai nom Raymond Edward O'Sullivan, est un auteur-compositeur et interprète irlandais, né le 1 er décembre 1946 à Waterford.Sa popularité date de ses tubes Alone Again (Naturally), Clair et Get Down (en).Il commence sa carrière aux côtés de Rick Davies, futur claviériste-chanteur du groupe Supertramp # 74; However, I feel it important that those who have not personally experienced this kind of relationship get a firmer understanding of what is happening and a conventional Freudian interpretation is highly misleading and overly simplistic. This is a live performance of Gilbert at the Dutch Grand Gala du Disque Populair on February 25, 1972. # 66; Gilbert O'Sullivan originally released Clair written by Gilbert O'Sullivan and Gilbert O'Sullivan released it on the album Back to Front in 1972. # 47; # 59; # 64; # 2; 1978 But I can’t help coming back to this question: who are really the ones obsessed with child sex? Clair - Gilbert O'Sullivan #10 in 1972. 1974 Gilbert received an 'Edison Award'. 1979, Gilbert O’Sullivan Top Songs in the Charts. A lot of them. ), in this case I will make an exception. # 27; It would appear, then, that this song is what it sounds like: a romantic love song for a 4-year-old. # 13; One of the most beautiful songs even written on young love. . # 32; # 91; # 24; # 85; # 42; # 12; And then, the moment I met you, again. In late 1972 pop musician Gilbert O’Sullivan released a winning ode to a girl he greatly adored, Clair Mills. # 62; Your email address will not be published. In their effort to stand squarely and unquestionably in the corner of justice, they have been too blinded by their own emotionalism and moral indignation to see the real complexities twined beneath the seemingly straight-edged surface of these things, and they often wind up doing more harm than good in the process, which is the inevitable result of taking any moral position, regardless of what it is, too far. Words mean so little when you look up and … Lines like “I don’t care what people say, to me you’re more than a child” and “But why in spite of our age difference do I cry; each time I leave you I feel I could die” the meaning changes from a simple display of affection and admiration for a child’s innocence (a theme so clichéd in music of the late ’60s and much of the ’70s that even true believers began to find it cloying, and rightfully so) to something a little deeper and seemingly more romantic. Il commence sa carrière aux côtés des futurs Supertramp. # 86; # 83; # 89; Okay, so it’s a sweet song about a little girl. And there you have it, folks. # 69; Song details. # 7; # 53; # 70; Sa popularité date de ses tubes Alone Again (Naturally) (en), Clair et Get Down. # 52; # 82; show chords YouTube Clip … Editor’s Note: I was quite moved by the O’Sullivan-Mills relationship and though such relationships are reasonably common, we are fortunate in this case to know about it because of one of the participants being an artist and expressing himself through song. # 58; # 29; # 1; Clair Gilbert O'Sullivan. # 77; Please feel free to tell them that from me. # 57; # 23; You get to me in a way I can't describe. Controversy surrounds the lyrics so that it had to be amended to "O hurray" from "Uncle Ray". # 17; Pop # 6; # 4; As all looks yellow to the jaundic’d eye. Jul 16, 2014 - Explore janecwardrop's board "Gilbert Osullivan", followed by 379 people on Pinterest. "Clair" is a song by Gilbert O'Sullivan, released in 1972 as the first single from his second album Back to Front. # 75; # 61; Biographie Modèle: Dans Alone Again Naturally, Gilbert O'Sullivan raconte que son père est … # 19; # 84; It had to be so, it couldn't be no. clarity here: the immediate impression of many to such a statement is that to even consider the possibility that it is anything less than entirely loathsome for adults to be ‘in love’ with children—especially those that aren’t their own—marks you out as a vile and detestable defender and/or practitioner of kiddie rape. Obviously not. There may be other examples in the future too, since music is an art form, though I am a little out of my element. This, I believe, was the allure from O’Sullivan’s point of view, and with sufficient affection and attention on the part of Mills, that relationship would have strengthened and evolved over time. # 25; Your email address will not be published. The young Mills would have had a lot of appealing qualities that she would not be conscious of which would facilitate a special bond, and that, simply put, is interpersonal chemistry. If all of that isn’t shocking enough, there was even a proto-music video made at the time that depicts “Uncle Ray” and little Clair frolicking together en plein air, with the little girl wearing a pedo-fetish dress if ever there was one that unavoidably flaunts her tiny panty-clad behind for O’Sullivan and all of his perverted ilk to gawk at. Sa popularité date de ses tubes Alone Again (Naturally) (en), Clair et Get Down. A thoughtful, even-headed person will soon realize that this song “Clair” uses the language of romance in a transcendent way to underscore a relationship that young Clair herself has framed in her own mind, innocently or not (your definitions of the word ‘innocent’ may vary, faithful readers), as romantic (“Will you marry me, Uncle Ray?”) I have myself been the recipient of just such a request by a girl of around the same age. # 100; The most obvious benefit to the child is that she gets additional attention which certainly promotes healthy development–being held, consoled, fawned over, etc. # 10 # 46; # 48; And that, in a nutshell, is the problem with much of society with regard to this issue. This could be confusion over the intensity of his paternal-friendship love, but most likely it is a reflection of the difficulty in communicating this level of emotion to a general audience. We can start by reading Clair’s own words in response to a slew of insults and attacks that appeared at YouTube underneath the above video. # 38; # 34; # 39; # 16; It was also covered by Bob Rowe [UK], The Sound Effects, Hamburg Oldtime Allstars, The Longines Symphonette Society and other artists. Photographer/Designer Unknown – Gilbert O’Sullivan – Clair (cover) (1972). I have a few quotes that I read from time to time, to keep things in perspective. -Ron. # 81; What made this song different is that Clair was a preschooler O’Sullivan sometimes babysat—the daughter of his manager, in fact. Gilbert O'Sullivan, né Raymond Edward O'Sullivan le 1er décembre 1946 à Waterford (Irlande) est un auteur-compositeur et interprète irlandais. That’s why they can listen to a song that cleverly one-upped the teen love ballads of the era with a charming, audacious and somewhat tongue-in-cheek romantic ode to a preschooler and hear only a tribute to the object of a child molester (or at best an encouragement to child molesters), or why they can look upon photos of naked children by Jock Sturges or Sally Mann and see only sinister motives behind the photos. # 28; # 20; Those fortunate enough to be involved in these kinds of relationships experience intense emotional attachment and perhaps the best word to describe it is romantic. I felt as if something, somewhere, Had happened to me, which I couldn't see. It was written by O'Sullivan and produced by Gordon Mills, and is one of O'Sullivan's biggest-selling singles. This was nothing new—love songs are a staple of pop music and have been since its origin. Well, when you consider some of the lyrics in the light of today’s pedo paranoia, the situation becomes a little more complicated. # 63; # 99; Messages from the Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Shizuki Obuchi’s ‘How to Shoot Little Girls’, Verónica Volkow’s Introduction to Inner Light by Flor Garduño. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1972 Vinyl release of "Clair" on Discogs. See more ideas about Gilbert o'sullivan, Gilbert, Songs. # 21; So what, right? # 50; Of course, as an adult O’Sullivan was capable of expressing a more adult notion of love through songwriting. I was a toddler !!!!!! Sa popularité date de ses tubes Alone Again (Naturally) (en), Clair et Get Down. Little Willy - The Sweet #20 in 1972 #9 in 1972 Gilbert O'Sullivan - Alone Again (Naturally) #11 in 1972 Dr Hook - Sylvia's Mother.