About Gary Glitter:
Paul Francis Gadd is an English former glam rock singer-songwriter and musician who achieved great popular success between the early 1970s and mid-1980s. From 1997, he gained notoriety for sex offence allegations and convictions, being jailed for possession of child pornography in 1999 and child sexual abuse and attempted rape in 2006 and 2015. He has sold over 20 million records, spent 168 weeks in the UK charts and has had 21 hit singles placing him in the top 100 UK most successful chart acts.