” There was a large group of hippie squatters camping out in a building next to MCA ’s offices, and a sit-in protest occurred when police tried to evict them. This moniker ’s closest brush with fame came with the 1969 single “We ’re All Living in One Place. He released a few more singles, which went nowhere, then with Leander hitched onto the hippie craze and renamed Gadd once more, to the implausible Rubber Bucket. Another change of name marked the occasion: Gadd now became Paul Monday.
In 1968 MCA named Leander head of its United Kingdom division, and he immediately signed Gadd. Glitter began his career as Paul Russell the late 1950s performed and recorded singles as Paul Russell and the Rebels, Paul Raven, Rubber Bucket, and Gary Glitter.Īddresses: Record company -Rhino Records, 10635 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90025. For the Record …īorn Paul Gadd, (some sources ay 1940), in Banbury, Oxfordshire, England. With them Gadd (as Paul Raven) toured Europe during late Sixties, achieving some minor success. But out of the ashes of this nine-piece band emerged Boston International, Gadd ’s next back-up act. Leander hired Gadd for the Mike Leander Show Band, another abysmal failure. His fortunes changed around 1965 when he came to the attention of Mike Leander, a noted production genius of the era along the lines of Andrew Loog Oldham (who worked with the Rolling Stones) and George Martin (sometimes called “the fifth Beatle ”). Gadd then worked as a session musician and even did commercial work to get by. He recorded a few singles, was halfheartedly promoted as “ Britain ’s first R&B singer, ” then dropped. Gadd changed his name to Paul Raven around 1960 and started touring England the gigs, though sometimes a flop, helped get him signed with EMI subsidiary Parlophone the following year. With them he cut his first record, “Alone in the Night ” it was not a hit, but by this point he was earning enough money on the nightclub circuit to move out into his own apartment he was just fifteen. In 1958 Gadd formed his first band, Paul Russell and the Rebels the Russell was his stepfather ’s name. Some were swanky, but others were reputed gangster haunts. His first performances came at a local club ’s open-mike night, and though still a teen was easily hired for singing engagements in nightclubs. Born in 1944 - or, by some accounts, 1940 -Gadd grew up in Croydon, a South London suburb, and as a young teen became enamored with the music of early rock pioneers like Elvis Presley and Ray Charles.
“Gary Glitter ” was one of several aliases Paul Gadd used during his long recording career. Rex sparkle and David Bowie sashay, through Slade ’s patent stomp and Sweet ’s candied pop, ” wrote Dave Thompson in Goldmine, “and though it didn ’t quite make #1, it hung around the chart so long there ’s not another song on earth that recaptures the moment like one. “Instantly nostalgic, but like nothing else on earth, ‘Rock and Roll ’ cut though everything that was around that English summer, through the T. But it may be for the wildly successful “Rock and Roll (Part II), ” released in 1972, by which Glitter will be remembered. His recording career began in the early days of rock and roll, and morphed through a hippie phase, glam rock, bad Seventies rock, finally, Eighties revivalism. Though best known for a rousing rock anthem that has become a trademark sound at American sporting events, Gary Glitter was far from a one-hit wonder.
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