Raven joined the Mike Leander Show Band in early 1965. He even auditioned for the role of the protagonist in the film Privilege (1967), which was written and directed by Peter Watkins, known for the television drama The War Game.
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He did numerous TV commercials and film auditions, and in the course of those activities met arranger and record producer Mike Leander who eventually helped revive his career. By 1964, Raven was reduced to working as an assistant, and playing the warm-up for the British music television programme Ready Steady Go!. Martin produced two singles, "Walk on Boy" and " Tower of Strength", but neither sold very well and Raven's recording career stalled. Ī year later, with a new manager, Vic Billings, he signed a new recording contract with Parlophone and worked with record producer George Martin, before Martin's association with the Beatles. In January 1960, at 15, under the stage name Paul Raven, he released his first single, "Alone in the Night". He gained his first break when film producer Robert Hartford-Davis discovered him and financed a recording session for Decca Records. His repertoire consisted of early rock and roll standards and gentle ballads.
His career grew as he appeared at such venues as the Two I's, in Soho, and the Laconda and Safari Clubs. Career Early workīy the time he was 16, Gadd was already performing at London clubs. He frequently ran away to London, to the clubs that were to be the launching ground of his career. Although nominally a Protestant, he was educated at a Roman Catholic school. He was hard to control and at the age of 10, along with his brother, was taken into local authority care. His mother, a cleaner, was unmarried, and initially brought him up with the help of her mother he never knew his father. Paul Francis Gadd was born on in Banbury, Oxfordshire, England. On 27 February 2015, he was sentenced to a total of 16 years in prison. On 5 February 2015, he was found guilty of attempted rape, four counts of indecent assault, and one of having sex with a girl under the age of 13 between 19.
He was bailed but was eventually charged, in June 2014, with historical child sex offences. In October 2012, he was arrested again as part of Operation Yewtree. After serving his sentence, Glitter was deported back to the UK where he was placed on the Sex Offenders' Register for life. After settling in Vietnam, a Vietnamese court found him guilty of obscene acts with minors in 2006. He was deported from Cambodia on suspected child sexual abuse charges in 2002. Later, Glitter faced criminal charges and deportation from several countries in connection with actual and suspected child sexual abuse. He was also charged at the same time, but acquitted, of sexual activity with an underage girl in the 1970s. The late 1990s saw his image become irreparably tarnished, following his 1997 arrest and 1999 conviction in the United Kingdom for downloading thousands of items of child pornography. The BBC described Glitter's fall from grace as "dramatic" and "spectacular". Glitter also released seven studio albums, and at least fifteen compilation or live albums. In 1998, his recording of "Rock and Roll" was listed as one of the top 1,001 songs in music history.
His 1984 song " Another Rock and Roll Christmas" is one of the most played Christmas hits of all time. Glitter popularity waned in the late 1970s followed by a successful comeback as a solo artist again from the 1980s. After performing under the name Paul Raven in the 1960s, changed his stage name to Gary Glitter in the glam rock era of the early 1970s, with a sustained solo UK chart run of hits including " Rock and Roll, Parts 1 and 2", " Do You Wanna Touch Me", " I Love You Love Me Love", " I'm the Leader of the Gang (I Am)", and " Hello, Hello, I'm Back Again".
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