Interview

As you may have heard, last week, Roman Polanski was arrested in Switzerland for having "unlawful sex" with a 13-year-old girl in Jack Nicholson's hot tub back in 1977. A fugitive–albeit, a public one–for the last 31 years, he now faces extradition to the US.

Filmmakers are standing behind their wayward French-Polish cousin. Presumably, so is the music community, which has a rich history of implicitly condoning this kind of behavior, both on and off stage. While you can research Jerry Lee Lewis and Jimmy Page and R Kelly on your own time, this week's playlist features some odes to the forbidden fruit–some blatant, some a bit more subtle.

Though I should note that I don't find these tracks personally inspiring, my faves include Alex Chilton's "Hey Little Child," Milk N Cookies' "Just a Kid" and "Little Lost and Innocent," and the blasting, Ozzie-meets-Black Sabbath-and-Fat Albert's-junkyard-band jam "Trouble Maker" by Chrissy Zebby Tembo. When they're finished with Polanski, the LA DA may want to flip through the catalogues of Alex Chilton, KISS, and Milk N Cookies, all of whom wrote a lot about, uh, young love. Though we can probably cut Milk N Cookies some slack since, when they wrote the songs, they were probably minors themselves.

Hey Little Child Alex Chilton

Little Young Lover Curtis Mayfield

Christine Sixteen KISS

Thirteen Big Star

Just a Kid Milk N Cookies

Little Lost and Innocent Milk and Cookies

Stray Cat Blues The Rolling Stones

Troublemaker Chrissy Zebby Tembo and Ngozi Family

Run-Hide Trouble Andrew

None Shall Escape the Judgement Johnny Clarke