This club was fronted by Diana Dors, but actually owned by the Krays.
He would perform at clubs on weekdays, then go to the Laconda Club on weekends. Glitter managed to get quite few different paid jobs through this time, which was helped by Glitter lying about his age and pretending to be older than he was. In the year that Hartford Davis managed Glitter he was successful in arranging a contract for Glitter with Decca Records whilst Glitter was still at the tender age of 14. Here Glitter met Robert Hartford Davis, a film producer who became his manager. This new and improved version of Glitter's band managed to earn a regular spot at the Safari Club which was based in Trafalgar Square, London. Members of the band left and new members joined to form a different version of The Rebels which had Brian Ramsey as the drummer and Mike Thompson and Pete Rainer on guitars. We had a Tea Chest bass with a broomstick and a drummer who had made his own drums by stretching thick brown paper over some old tin cans." "Just as bad as every other Skiffle group of the day. The band first performed in public at the Sutton Granada in a skiffle competition where they performed Oh Boy! quite badly.
Shortly after this set back, Glitter got formed his own band which he called Paul Russell and his Rebels after his step-father. My chances of success were slim I was in the wrong place, it was Decca Navigation."
GARY GLITTER CONTROVERSY HOW TO
In my naivety I asked everybody in the building how to make a record - whether it be the managing director or the cleaner. "There was a Decca building at the embankment over Lambeth way. We all walked around with 'the lip'Īs a wannabe pop star he decided that a chance sighting of a building in 1958 sporting the Decca name was to help him break into his favoured profession. In the early 50s nearly all the singers wanted to be like Elvis: Cliff Richard, Marty Wilde.
GARY GLITTER CONTROVERSY PROFESSIONAL
From an early age he aspired to be a professional musician. After excessive drinking and drug taking in his earlier musical career, he was declared bankrupt and began to turn his life around only to be confronted with allegations of paedophilia.īorn in 1944 in Banbury, Oxfordshire, England, Glitter was named Paul Francis Gadd. Gary Glitter, the King of Glam Rock, has had an unusual life to date.
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