If he wasn't one of the most famous singers in the world, if he was just some bloke off the telly, and he was accused of the same things - How many here would be defending him?

I've always thought it odd, that just because he was a musical genus that he somehow he's above suspicion.

Anyone who watched that Martin Bashir interview can only be left with one conclusion -

That he was a sad, broken man who admitted to putting himself into compromising situtitons with children.

Regardless of whether he actually sexually molested them or not, he was WRONG to have done what he did, and if he was an 'ordinary' celebrity without the millions to pay for crack legal teams there would be NO ONE defending him on this board.