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Finally, after Leander's group disbanded, Raven formed Boston International with saxophonist John Rossall, and this group spent the following five years touring the UK and Germany and recording occasionally.
glam movement hit full swing in 1971, Gadd/Raven took the new name Gary Glitter, which he devised by playing alliteratively with letters of the alphabet, working backwards from 'Z'.
He took his image seriously enough to own a reported thirty glitter suits and fifty pairs of his trademark silver platform boots. He also released several British Top Ten hits, with "I'm the Leader of the Gang (I Am)" being his first single to reach number one in the summer of 1973, and "I Love You Love Me Love", its follow-up, his second.
He had twelve consecutive Top Ten singles, from 1972's "Rock and Roll (Parts One and Two)" to "Doing Alright With the Boys" in the summer of 1975. "Rock and Roll (Part Two)" caught on as a popular sports anthem in North America. Often used as a goal song or celebration song, fans chanted out "Hey!" In light of Glitter's court convictions (see below), some teams have stopped using the song, though it remains heavily played. Despite his success in the UK, Glitter never made the same impact in the US, where, at best, glam rock was seen as a curiosity. Glitter had one more entry on the US charts with "I Didn't Know I Loved You (Till I Saw You Rock 'n Roll)";
Papa Oom Mow Mow", but it got no higher than number 38 on the British charts. After subsequent releases stalled in similar fashion, Gary Glitter announced his retirement from music in early 1976. That same year, his first true hits package, simply titled Greatest Hits, was released.
He was said to have begun drinking heavily, even admitting later that he pondered suicide. Under financial pressure, not even a pair of Top 40 hit singles ("It Takes All Night" and "A Little Boogie Woogie in the Back of My Mind") could lift him all the way back.
Glitter's Snack Bar was promoted under the slogan "Leader of the Snack". It was successful at first, but business eventually slowed and the restaurant closed in the late 1990s.
Arista Records in 1984 after twelve years with the label. Attitude records was merged into Machmain Ltd later in the 1990s, a music company owned by Glitter. Glitter spent the next decade mostly as an in-demand live performer, and his back catalogue of recordings proved durable enough that several compilations sold well.
His mother, a cleaner, was unmarried, and initially brought him up with the help of her mother; He was hard to control and at the age of 10, along with his brother, he was taken into local authority care.
Nevertheless, a truncated edit of the scene, featuring a version of Glitter's "I'm the Leader of the Gang (I Am)", was still included in the film. The following years held further trouble for the singer.
Cambodia where there was an uproar over his presence which led Cambodian authorities to expel him in 2002, determining that he was 'a threat to the security of a country and to the national image of Cambodia'. He had been jailed for three nights in that country on suspicion of sex offences, but was not convicted of any crime.
anthology of Glitter's music first issued in 1997 (days after his arrest), which covers his commercial breakthrough in 1972 through that point; In September 2001 he released a new album, On, that included material written before his 1999 British conviction. That material was to have been part of a project called Lost on Life Street until that album's release was cancelled following his arrest. By December 2004, after releasing a new single, "Control", Glitter was in the news again concerning his behaviour; NGOs had been petitioning the government with their own evidence aimed at arresting Glitter.
Glitter's music itself still had an audience, further demonstrated by three new album releases, although all of them contained past recordings from the vaults, rather than new product. The first two new albums were issued at the same time, The Remixes and Live in Concert (the latter of which was a 1981 recording).
He originally faced possible child rape charges carrying the death penalty, but prosecutors did not find enough evidence for those charges. Early in 2006, he was convicted of committing obscene acts with minors and sentenced to three years imprisonment. On one of two appeals, in 2007 this was reduced by three months.
After his arrest, Glitter was turned over to provincial police from Ba Ria-Vung Tau and returned to Vung Tau and held on suspicion of having sex with the two under-age girls.
The charge of rape was dropped for "lack of evidence" (according to Glitter's lawyer), although the singer admitted that an eleven-year-old girl had slept in his bed.
He denied doing anything wrong saying "to my knowledge I have not had sex with anyone under 18". When asked what he thought of adults having sex with children he said "It certainly is a crime ... I don't have the words, I would be very angry about that." He said he did not think too much about the future for now, other than winning his appeal. Glitter was criticised about his comments: Christine Beddoe, director of End Child Prostitution, Pornography and Trafficking, said that Glitter was trying to "minimise what he has done" and added "We must allow children to tell their story and not just have the words of Gadd."
paedophile" and as far as his music was concerned said "I felt after I left prison in England that maybe there was a slim chance I could put my life back on track and have a career, but after some time, the people that surrounded me, lawyers etcetera and managers, said: 'We don't think so, as the media have already made such a big deal about this'." He continued to blame the press for his downfall and called them "the worst enemy in the world", alleging press payment of local girls in a bar to arrange a photo-scoop 'entrapment'.
Although he remained calm throughout the forty minute reading of the verdict, upon leaving the courthouse, he shouted angrily to reporters that there was "no justice here in Vietnam.
News of the World reported that the singer had suffered a severe heart attack. These reports were denied, although it was confirmed that he had been diagnosed with heart problems.
tinnitus and a heart condition, and refused to board the flight to London despite the efforts of British police sent to escort him, although they had no jurisdiction to take action.
Daily Telegraph reported that Gary Glitter plans to record a new album on his prison release. He is quoted as saying "I have an incomplete album that I want to finish. I have been thinking about the plan during my days in jail, I have sung rock'n'roll for forty years.
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