Taboo broken

In the documentary His Wondrous Story, Vince Eager tells that a group of dominant gay managers selected young, good-looking men to reach a youthful audience. The most famous was Brian Epstein of The Beatles . One of those managers, Larry Parnes, is called “a sexual predator” in the documentary who couldn't keep his hands off his own artists.

Eager says that he and Fury had major problems with that; they depended on him as starting artists. Eager stopped Parnes, even when he asked him to share bed with an influential record producer: “If you want a hit, you'll have to.Chris Hitchens, a music journalist from those years, adds: “Larry's homosexuality was confusing for Billy in his own sexual life and led to huge problems for him in later years as well.”

Billy Fury (1940-1983)
Around 1960, Billy Fury was the most famous British pop singer with Cliff Richard. Big hits of his were ballads like “Halfway to Paradise” and “I'd Never Find Another You”. At the time, little was known about Fury, later it turned out that he lived a difficult life with heart problems that became fatal to him too soon.

British singer Marcus Mumford of the folk rock band Mumford and Sons . Mumford recently released the song 'Cannibal', in which he sings about the sexual abuse he suffered as a child. By whom, he wouldn't say. “Not by a family member and not in church.” The first lines of his song: “I can still taste you and I hate it/ That wasn't a choice in the mind of a child and you knew it.”

According to Rutgers knowledge center, one in five boys and men has experience with sexual abuse; a third does not talk to anyone about it. Clinical psychologist Iva Bicanic of the Sexual Violence Center praises Mumford: “It is very valuable that such a well-known musician speaks out on this subject. It helps to break the taboo around sexual abuse among boys and men.”