Its enough to have Gary Glitter breaking out in a sweat. Now while we are on the subject of Mr Glitter

I can think of three reasons why Glitter facing the firing squad would have been a good thing:

When your Rock and Roll legacy has gone down the pan like no others', going out in a blaze of glory in front of a firing squad in a squalid Indo-Chinese prison yard gives you at least one notable and slightly cool footnote. And, hey, it makes a change from the usual air-crash.

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