![]() Growing old in jail, Brady and Hindley inspired examinations of guilt, punishment and forgiveness. Around the same time, Brass Eye’s Pulp parody, Me Oh Myra, toyed with the idea of controversy itself and, inevitably, attracted its fair share. Four members of the Academy resigned in protest. It was clearly meant to disturb, but to what end? Was it subverting a grimly iconic image or intensifying it? When it was included in the Royal Academy’s Sensation exhibition two years later, it was picketed by Keith Bennett’s mother and vandalised twice. The most contentious British artwork of the 90s was Marcus Harvey’s 1995 painting Myra, which recreated the notorious mugshot with children’s handprints on a canvas 11ft tall. Photograph: Sipa Press/Rex Featuresīut serious intent is no antidote to outrage. The first song Morrissey and Johnny Marr wrote as the Smiths, Suffer Little Children, was inspired by the murders. ![]()
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