Jimmy was a notorious chicken hawk and, like the man said, it was a different time. Bill Wyman 'cultivated' his 14 year old girlfriend until she was old enough to marry.
Doesn't excuse it but if you started excluding every artist from your life that had what society deems as F-d up proclivities, you would have to exclude a lot of artists. It's an age-old debate - can you separate the person from their work? In some cases, I can, but in others, no. In the case of Jimmy and Bill, I wouldn't expect them to be anything but decadent rock stars.
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