Glitter’s low profile in the United States, along with the song’s largely instrumental nature - it’s little more than a beat, a riff and a “Hey!” - lead few Americans connect it with anything or anyone except sporting events and athletes. Nevertheless, “Rock and Roll Part 2” - which Glitter co-wrote with producer Mike Leander - still generates about $250,000 in annual performance royalties, a source told Billboard. Gary Glitter Arrested as Part of BBC Child Sex Case.Late ‘Top of the Pops’ Host Jimmy Savile’s Sexual Abuse Victims Offered $100K.He has been accused of other child-sex offenses, most recently in Britain in June, when he was charged with eight counts of sexual offenses against girls between the ages of 12 and 14 related to the investigation of late, longtime BBC host Jimmy Savile’s history of rampant sexual abuse, primarily against young people. But more recently, he served nearly three years in prison in Vietnam after being convicted in 2006 of sex offenses with girls aged 10 and 11 in 1997 he served four months in Britain after child pornography was discovered on his computer. 1s “Rock and Roll Part 2” was his biggest U.S. Top 10 hits between 19, including three No. Glitter, 70 (real name: Paul Francis Gadd), was briefly a superstar in his native England during the glam-rock era of the early 1970s, with 10 U.K. “The Hey Song,” with its rolling beat and chant-along “Hey!” that has become a sports staple in the U.S.īut like many teams, the Predators may not have realized until recently that their use of the song was earning royalties for a man convicted of two child-sex offenses and accused of several more. Previously, each time the team scored a goal, the Bridgestone Arena played a snippet of Glitter’s “Rock and Roll Part 2” - a.k.a. Judge McCreath told Glitter: 'You did all of them real and lasting damage and you did so for no other reason than to obtain sexual gratification for yourself of a wholly improper kind.Something was missing when the National Hockey League’s Nashville Predators played their first home game of the 2014-2015 season on Sept. Glitter claimed it was impossible that he could have abused the girls in his dressing room because his meticulous wig-maintenance routine required him to return to his suite immediately and clean his hairpiece.

Wearing a silver sequined jumpsuit unzipped to the navel, and silver platform boots, he forcefully kissed the youngster and then slid his hand up her skirt in a club called Baileys in Watford.

Two indecent assault charges related to a third girl, who was aged 13 when he asked her to sit on his lap in his dressing room between October 1979 and December 1980. He then pushed her on to the bed and sexually abused her. The girl tried to push the naked singer away, but as she lifted her hands, he shouted at her not to touch his hair, telling her he had a 'phobia'. Once back in the room, star songwriter, producer and Glitter's manager, Mike Leander led the girl's mother away, while Glitter then led her into the bedroom, the court heard. She initially went backstage with her mother and had a gold jacket autographed while drinking Moet champagne, but was then invited to the singer's Holiday Inn hotel suite. Glitter's second victim was 12-years-old when he attacked her after a show at Leicester nightclub Baileys in 1977. She remembered Glitter smelling of 'booze and cigarettes' and putting his arm over her, making her feel 'uncomfortable'.

One woman described how she had attended a party at a house - where she had previously met Alvin Stardust - on the night she was attacked in 1975.

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