![]() ![]() 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." 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. 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. Certainly, you would never back Leigh's voice to emerge triumphant from a seaside talent contest, despite the fact that he and Furst have toured their tribute band, All That Glitters, with Bjorn Again.Gary Glitter, the King of Glam Rock, has had an unusual life to date. The script was not always watertight and the acting, Furst apart, ropy. Notwithstanding some spectacular costumes and an imaginative set, the show could not disguise its Edinburgh Fringe roots. At which point a wasp started to buzz him and he was overcome by a paroxysm of twitching terror, frantically flapping his arms to wave the wasp away, the eyes widening in childlike fear. But the Glitter look? He still needed those startled wildman eyes. The Glitter handle had been debated: Stanley Sparkle, Terry Tinsel etc. The Glitter gear had been settled upon when Gary's mentor / producer, Mike Leander (Steve Furst), plucked a foil-wrapped chicken from the oven - 'Ah, sparkly clothes,' exclaimed Gary. The sharpest episode was the recounting of the moment the star was born. He would have made a quarter of a million.' 'Ah]' sighed his manager, 'Gary's artistic intuition. Enter Andrew Lloyd Webber offering Glitter ' pounds 40 cash or one per cent of the royalties' on the album. Until, a few minutes in, the narrator (being Gary's 'manager') remembered that in 1970 his struggling charge had been signed up as the high priest on the Jesus Christ Superstar LP. Sure enough, as the dry ice cleared, there was Gary (M Simon Leigh) bulging out of his Bacofoil, tottering on his silver stacks and striking his ludicrous poses, just as you knew he would be - as sure as 'Rock 'n' Roll Part 2' follows 'Rock 'n' Roll Part 1'. So for the first few moments of Leader] The Gang's Tribute to Gary Glitter, it seemed that we were in for a night of down-the-line reverential pastiche. And parodies come no more ridiculous than a beefy hirsute man in heels and lame. The problem with parodying a parody is that you can end up playing it straight.
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