Thanks to Mary Anne Cassata, I had the chance to catch not only Gary and his enormous toup play at NYC’s Limelight, which she mentions below, but I also had the opportunity to attend the press conference earlier, where FFanzeen photographer extraordinaire Cathy Miller took a photo of him holding up one of our logo t-shirts (and another of me standing with Gary). The following article, written by Mary Anne Cassata, originally appeared in FFanzeen #13, from 1985. Record images and videos from the Internet Sign up for our daily push alerts here.Introduction by Robert Barry Francos, 2010 You can now also get .uk articles sent straight to your device. įollow .uk on Twitter and Facebook for the latest news updates. Got a story? Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at Or you can submit your videos and pictures here.įor more stories like this, check our news page. The now 78-year-old is released from HMP The Verne in Portland, Dorset, after eight years behind bars. He loses a Court of Appeal challenge against his conviction. He is found guilty of one count of attempted rape, four counts of indecent assault and one count of sexual intercourse with a girl under the age of 13. Glitter goes on trial at Southwark Crown Court. ![]() The singer is charged with eight counts of sexual offences, which later becomes 10 counts. Glitter becomes the first person to be arrested under the Metropolitan Police's Operation Yewtree - the investigation launched in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal. Glitter is ordered to return to the UK after spending two-and-a-half years in jail. The shamed singer is convicted of sexually abusing two Vietnamese girls, aged 10 and 11, and sentenced to three years in prison. He is kicked out of Cambodia after facing allegations of sex crimes and moves to Thailand, before going on to the Vietnamese coastal resort of Vung Tau. Glitter has a son with Yudenia Sosa Martinez on the Caribbean island. Glitter is jailed for four months after pleading guilty to 54 offences of making indecent photographs of children under 16.Īfter serving two months in prison, the singer is freed and travels to Spain and then Cuba. It was also his final UK top 40 hit.Ī computer engineer discovers thousands of child porn images on Glitter's laptop while servicing it. The song Another Rock And Roll Christmas is also released this year, reaching number 7 in the UK singles chart, and is considered Glitter's most successful song since 1975. After some time away in Australia and France, he has turned to Buddhism and become a vegetarian. Glitter makes a comeback with hit single Dance Me Up. In the summer he claims his first UK number one single with I'm The Leader Of The Gang (I Am).īy now Glitter has sold 18 million records, but towards the end of the decade he is declared bankrupt. In what was an incredibly successful year for Glitter, he scores a string of chart hits, including I Didn't Know I Loved You (Till I Saw You Rock And Roll), I Love You Love and Do You Wanna Touch Me. This is also the year that he and his wife divorce. ![]() Glitter's breakthrough single Rock And Roll (Parts 1 And 2) reaches number two in the UK and tops the US charts. ![]() They go on to have a son together the following year. Aged 10, he and his brother are taken into care. Never knowing his father, he is brought up by his grandmother and young mother. Gary Glitter, whose real name is Paul Gadd, is born in Banbury, Oxfordshire. Here is a timeline of events in his life leading to his latest conviction for sexual offences and subsequent prison sentence:
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