I was in college-but I knew some entertainers were flamers at a young age-from conversations my parents, aunts and uncles, etc had when they did not think kids were paying attention, or realize that we had doppler ears...
You probably don’t remember or know just how much a 9 YO Irish Catholic kid would know in a corner of remote “bedroom community” suburb in 1976
We had a foreign exchange student for a week from South America (the details are foggy), but I remember she had Supertramp “breakfast in America” and that was exotic.