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Gary Glitter

June 2024

  • Gary Glitter

    Gary Glitter ordered to pay more than £500,000 to woman he abused

    Paedophile former pop star told to pay £508,800 in damages including for lost earnings and future therapy

April 2024

  • ‘We are no closer to ridding ourselves of these terrible predators’ … Paul Gadd in Glitter: The Popstar Paedophile.

    TV review
    Glitter: The Popstar Paedophile review – a most sickening nostalgia trip

    This relentless documentary takes us back in time to meet the women abused by glam-rock star Gary Glitter as children … and the roadies who tried to stop him (and set his wig on fire) 25 years before he finally got caught

March 2024

  • Gary Glitter police photo

    Gary Glitter victim seeks about £500k damages for ‘terrible impact’ on life

  • Gary Glitter pictured in 2015 wearing a hat and sunglasses

    Gary Glitter sued by victim over psychiatric damage caused by abuse

February 2024

  • Gary Glitter, whose real name is Paul Gadd.

    Former pop star Gary Glitter must stay in prison, parole panel decides

    Panel said it was not satisfied releasing former singer, jailed for sexually abusing girls, was safe for public

3 February 2023

  • Gary Glitter outside court in London in 2015.

    Gary Glitter’s early prison release ‘not the justice’ victims were promised, lawyer says

    Former pop star has been freed halfway through 16-year sentence for sexually abusing three schoolgirls
  • Gary Glitter is escorted from court in March 2006 after being convicted of obscene acts in Vietnam.

    Gary Glitter: all the former singer’s sexual abuse convictions

    Glitter has faced multiple jail sentences for abuse of girls in the UK and Vietnam
  • Gary Glitter outside court in 2015 during his trial.

    Why did Gary Glitter only serve half his prison sentence?

    Former singer was sentenced under old law that allowed automatic release on licence at halfway point

October 2022

  • Rishi Sunak

    No 10 denies using Gary Glitter song in Rishi Sunak video

    Twitter users said clip's backing music was strikingly similar to convicted paedophile’s song Rock ‘n’ Roll

October 2019

  • Joaquin Phoenix as Joker.

    Gary Glitter will not receive Joker royalties, say rights holders

    Snapper Music and Universal Music Publishing Group say they own the rights to the singer’s catalogue and do not pay him
  • Joaquin Phoenix in a scene from Joker

    Shortcuts
    Could Gary Glitter really make hundreds of thousands from the Joker film?

    The convicted paedophile could profit from the use of one of his tracks. Should those convicted of crimes continue to earn money from their intellectual property?
  • Dark … Joaquin Phoenix in Joker.

    Now you've seen it
    Joker – the incels, the incitement, the ending: discuss with spoilers

    Joaquin Phoenix’s cackling baddie is unleashed today – here’s your chance to talk about whether Todd Phillips is trolling us, or if his film deserves all the Oscars it can get

April 2019

  • CJ as Michael Jackson

    Too toxic to touch? Tribute acts in the age of #MeToo

    You’d think it’d be a hard time to be a Michael Jackson impersonator – yet business is booming for some acts mimicking problematic stars. Jack Needham finds out more

October 2016

  • Photo of Marc BOLAN and T REX<br>UNITED KINGDOM - MAY 25: TOP OF THE POPS Photo of Marc BOLAN and T REX, Marc Bolan (Photo by Ron Howard/Redferns)

    Book of the day
    Shock and Awe: Glam Rock and Its Legacy by Simon Reynolds – review

    From Bowie to T-Rex, glam was a gaudy, fun reaction to serious beardy music, as well as a risky celebration of androgyny. Put on your silver platform boots

November 2015

  • Gary Glitter attends the court of appeal

    Gary Glitter loses appeal against conviction

    Appeal court throws out challenge brought by former pop star against conviction for sexually abusing three schoolgirls

May 2015

  • Clockwise from Top Left: Fred Talbot, Gary Glitter, Jimmy Saville, Rolf Harris, Stuart Hall, Max Clifford

    1,400 investigated in child sex abuse inquiry, including politicians

    Officer leading Operation Hydrant inquiry says out of 1,433 alleged offenders 76 were politicians, 43 were from music industry and 135 were from TV, film or radio

March 2015

  • Gary Glitter

    Gary Glitter case exposes society’s double standards

  • Gary Glitter in his early 70s heyday

    The Gary Glitter fans who still follow the leader

February 2015

  • Prisoners can be frightened at leaving a place 'where someone cares whether I am dead or alive'

    Their crimes provoke repulsion but it is our duty to rehabilitate sex offenders

    Peter Stanford
  • Gary Glitter

    Gary Glitter jailed for 16 years for sexual assault of three schoolgirls

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