Glitter performing on Top of the Pops in the 1970s

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Paul Francis Gadd aka Gary Glitter (born May 8, 1944) is an English rock and pop singer and songwriter who is currently serving a prison sentence in Vietnam for sexual offences against children. more...

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Glitter first came to prominence in the glam rock era of the early 1970s. He had one of the longest chart runs of any solo singer in the UK during the 1970s. Between 1972 and 1995 Glitter charted no fewer than 25 hit singles which spent a grand total of 179 weeks in the UK Top 100. His success as a live performer lasted well beyond the decade. Glitter's 1973 #1 "I'm the Leader of the Gang (I Am)" also remains one of the better-known songs of its era. He continued to record in the 1980s and 1990s, with his 1984 song "Another Rock N' Roll Christmas" being one of the Top 30 Christmas hits of all time. He released seven studio albums, and at least 16 greatest hits collections or live albums. In 1998, his recording of "Rock and Roll" was voted as one of the Top 1001 songs in music history. In 2004, a Channel 4 poll of the 50 Greatest Pop Stars of all time placed Glitter at #22..

In 1999, Glitter was convicted on child pornography charges in the UK, and was afterwards listed as a sex offender. His reputation was greatly tarnished, and though he continued releasing new music, Glitter's popularity declined sharply. He was permanently evicted from Cambodia in 2002 for suspected child sexual offences. He afterwards relocated to Vũng Tàu in Vietnam, and in March 2005 applied for permanent resident status. Later that year, he was arrested by Vietnamese authorities while trying to leave the country, and he was tried and convicted of child sexual abuse charges in 2005-06. As of 2007, he is in prison in Vietnam.

Biography

Early work

Paul Francis Gadd was born in Banbury, Oxfordshire. Paul Francis Gadd had been performing the British club circuit since his mid-teens in the late 1950s, appearing in such legendary British clubs as the Two I's in Soho and the Laconda and Safari Clubs. At the time, his repertoire consisted of early rock standards and gentle ballads, and he got his first break when a film producer looking to hit the music industry, Robert Hartford Davis, discovered him and financed a recording session for the British Decca label. Under the stage name Paul Raven, he released his first single, "Alone in the Night" in January 1960.

A year later, he had a new manager (Vic Billings), a new recording deal (with Parlophone), and a new producer – George Martin, who would begin making his name for keeps a year later when he signed and began producing The Beatles. The Martin sessions produced two singles, "Walk on By" and "Tower of Strength," but neither sold very well and Raven's recording career hit an impasse. By 1964, while Martin's work with The Beatles was upending the world, Raven was down to playing the warm-up for the British television program Ready Steady Go!. He did numerous TV commercials and film auditions, but somewhere in the middle of that activity he met arranger-producer Mike Leander who, in due course, helped turn his music career around.