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Paul Francis Gadd aka Gary Glitter (born May 8, 1944) is a platinum selling English rock and pop singer and songwriter who had a string of chart successes with a collection of 1970s glam rock hits including \"Rock and Roll parts 1 & 2\", \"I Love You Love Me Love\", \"I'm the Leader of the Gang (I Am)\" and \"Hello, Hello, I'm Back Again\". He is currently in jail until August 2008 in Vietnam for child sexual abuse.

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 15 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 1999, Glitter was convicted for downloading 4,000 child pornography pictures 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 abuse 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. Glitter's release date is August 2008 though in April 2007 his lawyer announced that he was appealing for a second time against the length of his sentence (having had it cut by 3 months in the first appeal).

Biography

Early work

Paul Francis Gadd was born in Banbury, Oxfordshire. He began performing the British club circuit since his mid-teens in the late 1950s, appearing in such British venues as the The 2i's Coffee Bar 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.

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