4/17/2023 0 Comments Gary glitter hit![]() Something about his presence that is still there for me. Over a year now - I still don't think he's gone. Of an influence he was on me, and even now - he's been dead for We had one fairly big hit with 'Early in the Morning' and then I left my job and came into the music business. He'd done a lot because he worked with Decca: the Stones, Marianne Faithful, Joe Cocker, the list is endless.Īnd while I was still working in advertising we started writing together. 'She's Leaving Home' he arranged, but it's not credited on the album, because he was just so delighted to do it - he got a session fee. First he started as an arranger, then he became a producer, but was always a very, very good writer: all-round he was actually very clever - in terms of pop history, he made an important contribution. I was in advertising, and I didn't see him for a year or two when I saw him again he was no longer in law, he was working in music publishing, so he went into the business first. When he left school, he went and studied law for a few years. ![]() Mike Leander and I went to school together. Time was right - it's the only way to do it. It would not be democraticĪnd he would not mix by committee. He'd open theĭoor a little bit to let you have a little bit of an angle, but I think Mike had that sort of knock-on effect, being: I'm in control, ![]() I would imagine their relationship as being very, very stiff. If you look at like The Beatles and George Martin, It was very much like being in the headmaster's study With it, all the attitude that goes with it - very schoolteacherĪttitude. Mike was alright, but public school background and all that goes Gary was being Elvis, and I was beingĬolonel Tom Parker. The three of us, before he broke as Gary Glitter. Name Rubber Bucket, which was a version of 'Amazing Grace' that Record as Paul Monday, and we made a record with him under the Various names, and I was involved in most of those. When I started working for him, and we had a friendship on and Mates together, you know what I mean? I met Gary through Mike On a personal basis, Mike Leander, Gary and I were very much three Well, no one could do it any better, could they? What he'll give you in that hour and a half. It because people know what they're going to get. It's like seeingĭirty Harry films - it's a bit repetitive but you can still sell He does, you'd laugh, but he gets away with it. NobodyĮlse can come near him as far as ego goes, and to match that whole It requires an enormous amount of ego to be that character. I mean, because of the hits, the ego takes over, but Nobody else could have been Gary - I've actually thought aboutĪll that. Public performance - he could put it across, but he had a lot Was pretty good and to put it over, you'd give Gary 100% on his Talking about a great singer here I mean, the recording technique Let's be honest, at the end of the day you're not Gary's bit, which he's very good at, is being on stage and being He's probably the only singer that's ever made it on an instrumental. So he needed a band with a good enough image thatĬould make the thing marketable for the public, that would look Have been easy - he'd got his hit record at last, but it was an And poor old Gary there, to be fair, it can't The first gigs we were doing, they thought Gary Glitter was a ![]() On later when it came time for 'Angel Face' they tried to back Of time, after he was established, they would not restrict theīand from doing their own records. The time I was involved in writing stuff for records for The Bostons,Īnd so I came to a deal with Mike and Gary that in the fullness Were in mid-tour but I took a couple of nights off, and I wentĭown to London and had a meeting with Mike Leander and Gary. I need a band for Top of the Pops, will you do it?' We Speak, he was that excited: 'It's going in the charts this week, And it startedĪround the end of May, beginning of June, we were on tour in EnglandĪnd Gary left a message at my mum's to contact him. To play the b-side on his Pick of the Pops, ages later,Īnd the discos in the country picked up on it. Normally if six weeks have gone and the record isn'tĭoing anything, it's dead. Me he had this record coming out under the name Gary Glitter and In London, just having a social meeting with Gary and he told What happened with 'Rock & Roll (Part Two)' was I was down Gary Glitter: 'Rock & Roll Part 1' - A staccato, rapped-out piece, with fair excitement as it builds up. Record Mirror 18 March 1972, singles reviews: ![]()
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