Julia Molony: Rolf Harris was a monster, but I still play his songs to my children
The abuser’s death has reopened the debate on whether we can ever separate a sinner from their songs and artworks
Rolf Harris performs at the Glastonbury Festival in 2010. Photo: Luke MacGregor
Julia Molony
Rolf Harris, the artist, musician and apparently unrepentant child-molester, is dead at the age of 93. Nobody, in the public sphere at least, has mourned his loss. The obituaries led with the crimes and the damage done — and it is those for which he will be remembered, if at all.
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