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Gary Glitter

Gary Glitter (English Gary Glitter, real name Paul Francis Gadd, English Paul Francis Gadd, 8 May 1944, Banbury, Oxfordshire, England) is a British pop-rock performer and songwriter whose popularity peaked in the 1972–1974 years, when, on the wave of glam rock, he reached number 1 in Britain three times ("I’m the Leader of the Gang (I Am)", "I Love You Love Me Love", "Always Yours"). In the period from 1972 to 1995, Glitter released 26 hit singles (which spent a total of 180 weeks in the top one hundred of the UK Singles Chart), 7 studio albums and 15 compilations. At the end of the 1990s, Gary Glitter’s musical career practically ended after he was accused of possession of child pornography in Britain and ended up on the list of dangerous pedophiles. In the years 2006–2008, Gary Glitter served a three-year sentence in a Vietnamese prison on charges of indecent behavior in the presence of two minors. In the year 2015, he was sentenced by a British court to an 16-year prison term.