I was about to say so what, then saw that you thought he'd been openly out the last 40 years.
Yeah no change really, not bothered either way!
Congratulations to him for finding the courage to come out though I have never understood people's need to say they're straight or gay or whatever.
It's got to be a really tough step to take regardless. Maybe it was made a lot tougher for him to if he felt he was firmly in the closet and undetected.
Even though I know a couple of his songs, I'm not a big fan of his, or music in general, so I am neither surprised nor proud of being able to say I already knew/suspected.
However I'm sure that his success would have been build, at some point, by female fans that would have liked him in a way that they might not have had they known. I'm not suggesting that anyone would have a problem with his sexuality, but even though millions of women around the world had no chance of ever being his lover they could have fantasised about it in a way that they wouldn't have done had they know that he didn't go for women.
Imagine trying to get millions of young girls to buy One Direction Albums and go to their concerts if they know that none of them even liked girls.
On this basis it must be a bigger news story than if he hadn't made millions and millions by selling records to women. He says, I read, that he was worried that if he'd come out before he was 73 he might have 'disappointed' fans. I can't help thinking that what he really means is that they mightn't have bought so many of his records.
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Shame he felt he had to keep it a secret.
Yeah no change really, not bothered either way!
Congratulations to him for finding the courage to come out though I have never understood people's need to say they're straight or gay or whatever.
It's got to be a really tough step to take regardless.
Maybe it was made a lot tougher for him to if he felt he was firmly in the closet and undetected.
Not at the same time of course. I won't have Tsoukalos and Von Daniken talking over oh l'amour
And then you'll be demanding to see Battlefield Earth on the away coaches.
Beats what I thought about him.... that he was dead all this time.
Swayed to my lighter flame as he sung One Voice at Wembley 30 years ago with my Mum.
However I'm sure that his success would have been build, at some point, by female fans that would have liked him in a way that they might not have had they known. I'm not suggesting that anyone would have a problem with his sexuality, but even though millions of women around the world had no chance of ever being his lover they could have fantasised about it in a way that they wouldn't have done had they know that he didn't go for women.
Imagine trying to get millions of young girls to buy One Direction Albums and go to their concerts if they know that none of them even liked girls.
On this basis it must be a bigger news story than if he hadn't made millions and millions by selling records to women. He says, I read, that he was worried that if he'd come out before he was 73 he might have 'disappointed' fans. I can't help thinking that what he really means is that they mightn't have bought so many of his records.