gary glitter, mad, sad, bad or classic?

i haven't thought about this in awhile, but several years ago i'm at a bar in chicago with a scottish friend and some fellow americans. scottish friend is going on about some slut back home when he says something to the effect that she "loved to take it up the gary glitter." now, none of us americans had ever heard mr. glitter's name used as such an expression before, but the meaning was clear and i remember beer flying from our noses as we had a good laugh. so my question is whether or not this was an idiosyncratic-type usage unique to my friend, or if its common across the pond.

It'd go through the roof. People would line up to see what the technicians found.

He was great, musically, on singles anyway. The albums are very dodgy. Younger readers may be unaware that his backing band had a post-split career as the Glitter Band, and their singles are good too.

I saw GG live in 1980 at Reading Univ and it was amazing. The Glitter Band played a wierd glam medley built from fragments of the hits and other glam classics for about 20 minutes before GG came onstage. During this there were various twitching curtains which increased the hysteria and at one point a glittery arm waved to the crowd. When GG finally appeared, he stuck his head through the curtain about 15 feet in the air (he was on a ladder, I guess) over the head of one of the drummers and a spotlight picked him out. He was doing that fantastic surprised/shocked expression. During the gig he kept going off for 'costume changes' every 3 or 4 numbers - in fact he was pretty fat and was probably having a sit down. Towards the end, one of his shoulder pads sort of unhinged itself from his jacket and he just ripped it off and threw it into the audience.

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40102000/jpg/_40102237_garyglitter_pa203.jpg

lol, i finally feel bad for him. he's doing what everyone else goes to those countries to do, but he's high profile so they go after him.

I was there too - I interviewed him after the gig! Yes, he was amazing!

Anyhow, between winning and gig date, Mr Gary thought it would be a good idea to take his PC to PC World to get it repaired.

So, I was even less bothered to go now. And even my sister was more anti by then.

By all accounts, it was filled with fans of the 'ever true' variety, and Mr Glit was very 'thanks for standing by me you people yeah!'. After that, the full details of the nastinesses were made public, and he fled the country and never did another gig since (I believe).

I suppose it would have made a story of the 'I saw his last gig' type, but even then I wasn't that bothered. We'd also won 2 ticks for the Lightning Seeds that same week (part of the same prize, owing to an administrative error), and had bought tickets to see Blur 3 days later. That's enough gigs for one week, Dawn (6 months preg with Amber) said. OK, fair enough say I.

Oh, and I believe the "Up the Gary Glitter" rhyming slang for Anal Sex got dropped for being too demeaning to anal sex.

Funny, the accounts I heard were that people who'd previously purchased tickets were demanding refunds in droves and the audience was actually dramatically reduced to just a few remaining "fans of the 'ever true' variety".

No matter how appaling and depraved his sexual proclivities may be 'though, the fact remains that Mr. Gadd genuinely was an enormously and exceptionally charismatic performer 'though.

I can imagine (and did) that the 'dance floor' would be fully capable of accommodating lots of people swinging cats if so desired.

http://www.glitterband.fsnet.co.uk/miketribute.html

On reflecting back, John comments on his days when he was recording engineer
on all of Mike's productions for the Gary Glitter records.................
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Mike would write and arrange the songs in the studio. In the beginning of
the whole Glitter era, Mike would hire drums and guitars and amplifiers; all
were set up in the studio and mike'd up. Mike would play each of them in
turn trying out ideas.
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We usually started with a drum pattern. Mike would play around on the drums
for literally hours until he came up with a suitable drum riff. I would
then edit it into a loop on a 2 track tape (quarter inch), I would then
play the loop into the studio loudspeakers, quite loud!, and Mike would sit
either at the piano or the guitar and work out an arrangement. (There were
no drum machines in the 70's !). When the idea was perfected, I would
record the instrument he was playing along with the drum loop on to a
multitrack tape. Each different instrument was recorded on a separate
track.
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We would spend hours recording one instrument at a time, gradually building
up the complete instrumental track. Because we used an 8 track machine, we
soon filled all the tracks. We would combine some of the tracks on to one
by balancing these instruments through the mixing desk. On later recordings,
Gary's band, the Glitter Band, joined in the playing, especially on the
Horns section parts.
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Once all the backing instruments were recorded Gary would record a vocal.
Once there was a main vocal on the tape Mike and Gary (and sometimes myself
and the tape-op!) would record claps and backing vocals. This was done as
a 'live bounce' between 2 available tracks. We would sometimes record as
many as 24 passes of claps and backing vocals. This method of recording the
claps is what gave the record it's very characteristic sound on the snare
beat.
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We would add final touches to the lead vocal and then mix the whole track.
Mike would operate the faders on the mixing desk once I had set up the
levels and sounds of each channel. We used tape delay and reverberation
plates to enhance various instruments, The mixing usually took around 6 to
8 hours per song. We had to practice all the fader moves etc. and sometimes
we had to edit the final mix because it was not possible to do all the moves
in one pass. There was no automation in those days!!
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Making Hit records - that people would want to listen to and buy - is a
refined art and there have never been many people who can do it. I think
Mike was absolutely brilliant in this fine art.
I learnt more from Mike about how to make a hit record than I have from
anyone else in my whole career.

well this is just tripe, no?

http://www.vinyltap.co.uk/gallery/gl/glittrnrd6817488684082760.jpg

this will have changed by tomorrow but it read for you people in tHE future GARY GLITTER FACES DEATH BY FIRING SQUAD

http://www.alexgitlin.com/npp/gg3.jpg

I'm afraid the chances are slim.

Snapper put out a pretty good 2 CD collection of this stuff plus a couple hits from the Glitter Band thrown in.

Joan Jett's opinion would be one I'd want to hear. She cover at least two, maybe more, of his tunes. Heck, lots of her sound was based on the ribs of Mike Leander-ism.

"Remember Me This Way" is the weird-ass dark jewel, I think, his own early 70s Elvis ballad, if you will.

Anyway, I can't understand why Glitter didn't come to America and live in southern California.

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December 27,2005 | HANOI, Vietnam -- Police in southern Vietnam have completed investigation into former British rocker Gary Glitter's alleged obscene acts with a child, his attorney said.

"It's likely that the findings of the investigation will be handed over to him this week," Glitter's Vietnamese attorney Le Thanh Kinh said in a telephone interview Monday.

Glitter, 61, whose real name is Paul Francis Gadd, is being held at Phuoc Co prison outside the coastal Vung Tau city on suspicion of engaging obscene acts with a child, an offense punishable up to 12 years in prison.

He was seized while trying to board a flight to Bangkok from Ho Chi Minh City on Nov. 19.

Kinh said no additional charge was raised by the police investigators.

Police earlier said they were looking into a child rape charge, an offense punishable by death, after medical tests on the girls including an 11-year-old and 12-year-old showed evidence of intercourse.

The case will be passed to provincial prosecutors for review. It will take a month for prosecutors to decide whether to put Glitter on trial.

Kinh said in earlier interview that Glitter admitted to police that an 11-year-old girl slept in his bed, but denied sexually abusing her.

He was convicted in Britain in 1999 of possessing child pornography and served half of a four-month jail term. He later went to Cambodia and was permanently expelled in 2002, but Cambodian officials did not specify any crime or file charges.

© 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. The information contained in the AP News report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without the prior written authority of The Associated Press.

Released.

"Will you um, fort me
will you deport me
When I'm
sixty
Four!"

(OK, so I couln't get a rhyme for deport!)

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"report"? Marcello's office, 9pm.

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9 PM?? No chance!

Anyway, I'm sure Bill Wyman will give him a job when he gets back.

Jonathan King can produce their collaboration

Michael Jackson on guest vocals.

Los Campesinos! to provide a bit of indie cred

He's going to end up living in Bangkok airport, isn't he? Just like that Tom Hanks movie, only the love interest will be younger.

When did he turn into Sir Richard Attanborough.

Los Campesinos! to provide a bit of indie cred

Los Campesinos! provides indie cred?!?

http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00559/SNA2008ZZ_682_559025a.jpg

He looks like a bearded James Carville.

I found it bizarre that the news last night referred to him as "Glitter" ...

It seems I wasn't the only one: This morning's GMTV had him as "Paul Gadd" for the most part, referencing him as Gary Glitter in passing...

Phuc Mai Sac

Can I do the "Has anyone heard about Gary Glitter's release date?" joke now?

I think ultimately, it has to do with how many children he has *actually* abused.

The photos were bad, but ultimately only made him a theoretical paedo. That he went to South East Asia to be a practical one makes him bad, and, basically, unforgiveable. No matter how much most of the people here consider asian children to be more expendible than caucasian ones.

Sadly, he reminds me of another GG - GG Allin

What a pair of cuntertons

Gary Glitter on Top of the Pops in 1970, the decade in which he was one of Britain's most lucrative performers. He sold the rights to his back catalogue for an estimated £5m shortly before being caught in possession of child porn.

Hahahahaha that's got to go down as one of the worst investments of all time.

Especially with all those Oasis and Full Monty royalties he won't get.

xp
notwithstanding Marcello's particularly relevant post, in hindsight surely it's a good choice?

o shit sorry totally misunderstood.

http://i38.tinypic.com/30cyd6g.jpg

When the plane was flying back to Heathrow, the other passengers were thinking about pushing him out over the sea but didn't when they realised he might cling to a small buoy.

I wondered why they were playing this at heathrow all day today.

The photos were bad, but ultimately only made him a theoretical paedo. That he went to South East Asia to be a practical one makes him bad, and, basically, unforgiveable. No matter how much most of the people here consider asian children to be more expendible than caucasian ones.

-- PhilK, Wednesday, August 20, 2008 11:03 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Link

read as "expandable" :(

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article4591091.ece

I COULD CURE GARY GLITTER

this article is not really about Gary Glitter, it is about voluntary antilibidinal medications for sex offenders, although it does feature a comments section full of I AGREE MATE CUT THEIR FUCKIN COCKS OFF and one guy angrily defending hapless Glitter against the tabloid stitch-up that ruined his career

Liverpool's world-famous Cavern Club last night defended its decision not to remove a tribute to convicted sex offender Gary Glitter.

The shamed ex-pop star has his name etched into a brick in the music “Wall of Fame” in Mathew Street, Liverpool.

It fills the front wall of the Cavern pub and carries the name of hundreds of bands that played The Cavern between 1957 and 1973.

http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-news/regional-news/2008/11/13/cavern-club-gary-glitter-brick-stays-64375-22245605/

Surprised there hasn't been more comment about this.

I presume all education authorities will likewise discontinue the playing of music by Britten and Elgar and the poetry of Auden in order to be consistent.

One the one hand, someone was quoted as saying "The kids will go onto the internet, and goodness knows WHAT they will find there!" like, GG has set up a site purely consisting of his erect membere and a message "come to meeee, suffer litlle chlidrennnnnnn"...

On the other, this is admittedly the song where he pronounces himself as being the man who put the bang in gang. (Not since the spice girls took a song that referenced 'facials' and shagging on Extacy to number one...)

And on thee final hand, isn't this the sort of thing that should be debated amongst kids that are intelligent enough to appreciate the situation? Or are we telling them that paedophiles do not exist, suddenly?

(I'm not turning gothic or psychic TV, just my keyboard is now of a habit of inserting random 'e's and I can't always be bothered removing them!)

what are britten and elgar and auden's crimes again?

elgar shagged a gothic dancer....

Actually, that's a Jethro Tull number, isn't it?

I've actually read a biography of Britten, and although he did form sentimental relationships with young boys, he never went so far as doing anything sexual with them, and his love interests spoke very well of him in later life, so not guilty I think

Well, Peter Pears was in on it, so SOME biographies say...

Show me a 70s rock star who hasn't shagged an underage girl, if you can find any

There were loads of underage girls in the seventies, bdum tish!

britten shagged peter pears???
this is new information!

My mate Dom has a bunch of obscure xmas annuals from the 70s and 80s. He found this picture in the Music Star annual.

http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/261829_2088404724175_1066904589_2332808_7405763_n.jpg

Prescient.