One thing is how will people ever learn about right and wrong if its hidden away and covered up like this?
Another is the censorship and the precident that it is setting. Welcome to the free world.

Tim, Madrid, Sapin

I think this had been blown out of proportion.....
Yes he is a sex offender, so what, I think the people that complained need to find something else to do. If anything they coudl teach abotu Gary Glitter and what he has done as being wrong, don't hide kids from the real world, show them it.

S Green, Manchester,

I got the syllabus the other day and was quite shocked to see his name on it.
To anyone who's wondering why theres pop songs on the GCSE syllabus, it's because one of the compostition courseworks you choose from 4 categories, so there's someting for everyone. One of the categories is Pop song.

Elizabeth, Manchester,

Which government fruit cake decided that any song by Gary Glitter could ever be suitable material for academic study?

"Wanna be in my gang, my gang" or "Rock 'n Roll Rock"?

Deathless lyrics: and they still have the brass-faced effrontery to deny that exam exams have been "dumned down"!

Robert, Hull, UK

I think that this may be going too far. Many many rock stars are less than stellar role models, many having drugs charges, vandalism, sexual abuse charges against them. I think there needs to be a distance kept between the individual and their work.

Graeme, toronto, canada

Are they going to ban studying The Beatles because of their drug use? The Rolling Stones because of the events at Altamont? The Who for trashing hotel rooms? Jerry Lee Lewis for marrying his cousin? Elvis or Janet Jackson for the scandals they have been in?

Graeme, toronto, canada

A bit difficult this one, do we stop reading the books and poems, looking at the paintings and listening to the music of artists of whom we now know the gory details? Personally, I find it rather difficult not to hum the occasional line of Glitter band "glam rock", it is, after all, quite catchy.

Keith , Beziers, France

Trust the educational establishment to be bone-headed enough to select this dross in the first place. He and the song are totally inapprorpiate.

I suggest there are far better songs.

The Trees or indeed Manhattan Project by Canadian band Rush would both be perfect and very educational choices.

Christopher Wright, Newcastle,

Why are they studying a pop song for GCSE Music?

Paul, Rochester, UK

Thought control?

"Leader of the Gang" is a song.

If you start banning music because of who sang it, you are just another brick in the wall.

Barry Evans, London,

What on earth was a Gary Glitter song doing on the syllabus in the first place?

Roger, Milan, Italy

Especially with lyrics like 'I'm the man who put the bang in gang'. How many people at AQA, their designers, printers, etc. would have seen this, didn't anyone think this might be a bad idea?? Talk about the lunatics running the asylum!

James, Horsham,