Kansas University pep band members can crumple the sheet music to a song that’s been a fixture in Allen Fieldhouse and Memorial Stadium for at least two decades.
Gary Glitter’s “Rock and Roll Part Two,” also known as “The Hey Song” or “The Hey Cheer” has been banned by the KU athletic department.
It follows the NFL’s decision to ban stadiums from playing the tune written by Glitter, a British rocker who was convicted of molesting underage girls in Vietnam.
“We will not play that song at our athletic events,” KU associate athletic director Jim Marchiony said Thursday. “We think this is an appropriate action in light of the nature of the conviction.”
The song has long been played after touchdowns at games of the Kansas City Chiefs and many other NFL teams.
The Chiefs, during their first exhibition game, compromised by playing a version of the song by a group called “Tube Tops 2000.”
Public relations director Bob Moore has said the NFL instructed the teams to “not use Gary Glitter,” but did not disallow using a different artist’s rendition.
At sporting events, fans chant, “We’re gonna beat the (expletive) out of you, you, you, you, you” to the visiting team during the song.
¢Student tickets on sale Monday: Tickets for the Oct. 15 NBA exhibition between the Chicago Bulls and Seattle SuperSonics will be placed on sale on Monday for KU students. Cost is $10. Tickets in various price ranges have been on sale for the past several weeks at kuathletics.com.
The game will mark the homecoming of former KU players Kirk Hinrich (Bulls) and Nick Collison (Sonics) as well as former KU assistant coach Bob Hill, head coach of the Sonics.
¢Aldrich impresses: Future KU basketball center Cole Aldrich impressed a writer from Slam Magazine’s Website at last Friday’s Elite 24 High School Showcase at New York’s famed Rucker Park.
Aldrich, 6-11 from Bloomington, Minn., who has orally committed to KU, had 14 points off several dunks.
“Cole Aldrich is ridiculous. The 7-footer from Minnesota is an understandable novelty at the Rucker, but he ends up with like 30 monster dunks. You watch a kid like this, then think back on, say, Will Purdue’s NBA career, and you figure Cole might be in the League for a LONG time.”
