(This creepy picture is from the dude's Wikipedia page.)
An explanation: Since the name Gary is going extinct, I thought it incumbent upon me to celebrate more notable Garys than myself. This is the seventeenth of a series!
Gary Glitter is, according to the Wikipedia, a "former glam rock singer-songwriter & musician who achieved great popular success between the early 1970s & mid-1980s... He has sold over 20 million records, spent 168 weeks in the UK charts, & has had 21 hit singles placing him in the top 100 UK most successful chart acts. From 1997, he gained notoriety for sex offense convictions, being imprisoned for possession of child pornography in 1999, & child sexual abuse & attempted rape in 2006 & 2015."
When did you first become aware of him? Are you really doing this?
What do you mean? This is like one of the worst Garys you could have picked!
But it says he's one of the most successful musicians in UK history! It also says that he's a convicted child molester & child rapist!
Couldn't we focus on the more positive aspects of his life? No we cannot! Once you're convicted of raping a child, your destroy whatever accomplishments you've had up until then!
You're thinking of Bill Cosby, aren't you? Of course!
But Cosby hasn't been convicted of anything. You're trying to change the subject. We're not going to argue about that. You're featuring a child molester named Gary in the Gary Files series!
He's a famous - maybe an infamous - Gary. That's the thing. He's not even a real Gary!
What do you mean? His real name is Paul Francis Gadd! He picked out that stage name, to glam himself up. I mean, Gary Glitter? For fuck's sake!
So you don't want to talk about the tune "Rock & Roll"? Let's just stop it here.
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