In fact Mike Leander made the records. Gary Glitter could barely even sing but he was a serious strutting poseur. Check out Mike Leander. Therein lies the real talent that was the "glitter" project. Glitter himself always was a total prat. The "Glitter" sound was very good but that's Mike Leander, who sadly passed away almost 16 years ago: Leander started his career as an arranger with Decca Records in 1963 and Bell Records in 1972 and worked with such artists as Marianne Faithfull, Billy Fury, Marc Bolan, Joe Cocker, The Small Faces, Van Morrison, Alan Price, Peter Frampton, Keith Richards, Shirley Bassey, Lulu, Jimmy Page, Roy Orbison, Brian Jones and Gene Pitney. He created, produced and was key writer for Glitter project.

Leander also worked as a producer/arranger with Ben E. King and The Drifters on the Atlantic record label and was the arranger on The Beatles' "She's Leaving Home" from the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album (the only time The Beatles recruited someone other than their producer, George Martin, to provide orchestration.

He was executive producer of the Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice concept album Jesus Christ Superstar and in the late 1960s wrote scores for several films, including Privilege with Paul Jones and Jean Shrimpton, Run a Crooked Mile with Mary Tyler Moore and Louis Jourdan and The Adding Machine with Billie Whitelaw and Milo O'Shea.

In the 1980s he wrote the musical Matador, which gave Tom Jones a hit album and single A Boy From Nowhere. The way Glitter was seen on TV news jumping out of the car and then, sort of....shook himself into an "I am the King of rock n roll" stance....when arriving for his first UK court appearance is a picture which speaks better than a million words.

Glam rock was the music of my teens. Loved it then & still love it now.

The man (GG) is a piece of shit, however, I still love his music.

.. except the prurient, and the voyeuristic. And there will most probably be plenty of them. These shows, if they actually happen will most probably be successful. The publicity that it will receive alone with see to that. Unless of course the publicity has a go at the audience. If that happens it may be a different outcome

I always wondered why the rolling eyes and the creepiness didn't freak people out more at the time. But these were the days when weird characters like Jonathan King in the music industry were common place.

And of course it's true that the talent lay at the doors of certain Mr Leander. It's just a shame that people like him seemed to be at the mercy of characters like Paul Gadd to make a living.

But I remember people saying mainly "whatever you say about Garry Glitter, he could certainly put on a show". Now those same souls are saying "The man (GG) is a piece of shit" about someone they never met.

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Another example of people bodyswerving personal responsibility and expecting the state to do it for them.