Gary Glitter - Interview : Pebble Mill

called Paul GAD fell in love with the sounds of rock'n'roll and wanted to be part of it he built up a flamboyant an outrageous image and searched for a name to match he turned down stanley sparkle terri tinsel and honest horris a hydrogen and he settled instead Gary Glitter the seventies rock and roll leader of the gang and saw this rubbish his fame waned for a while during a period of alcoholism bankruptcy and depression but the leader couldn't be kept down today he tells the whole story in his autobiography leader and he's still rocking after all those years with his new single ready to rock the one the only Gary Glitter are you ready to rock yes that was up my new album which comes out on attitude records next week and that's the single do you like it I think they quite enjoyed it the chapter in this book leader is called life is not a dress rehearsal which is really your motto it seems to be loose yeah I mean this is this is it is we got to enjoy it while while we're having it right now I think don't you it was only I do I want for him he's such an incredibly young start in your case know coming to London at 13 yes I was 14 for Decca changed my name to Paul Raven and it was the worst record in that world actually it's called alone in the night was dreadful and up until about then I went and made a record called walk on boy with Ron riches who later produced The Hollies and then George Martin who later produced The Beatles with Tarot strength then I went to Ready Steady Go how did a lot of 16 know getting on Ready Steady Go and the pop music business was phenomenally hard to actually break into well I I was managed by Viktor Billings who managed Dusty Springfield and Dusty Springfield was a great friend of Vicky's wickham's who at that time I was it was crazy actually because Ready Steady Go started out with this audience participation thing in mind but they couldn't get the audience to do what they were supposed to do you know like leader saying you've got a bit of practice since then there's a few ladies who came in here this morning after clue what's going on so they join in a little bit at the NEC and their Wembley this year no doubt however that was a plug for the concert it went by totally on no time we so they I was very lucky to get the job as to ask the audience to come along to Ready Steady Go and I always sort of go around all the clubs because I was a bit streetwise and I go around there and and check him out he had all the mod thing that was happening and and really it was Cathy McGowan Michael orderid and Vicky who put the Ready Steady Go together and myself we used to play the records on I think it was a Monday and we'd go through all the rain what was great about ready city goes it took a chance mmm you know not only did we have the Beatles of stones the animals all these groups on but it took a chance with people like Donovan who had never ever been on television before I continue to turn all the black stacks things Diana Ross you took a chance on a commercial so Jerry B I didn't know it was your voice Bette can he still Jerry be Jerry be Jerry be it's the cherry drink that's for you and me cherry be there was a lady there's supposed to be in a thirteen-year-old girl and I you know and I turned up there she's supposed to have this really light voice and she when she was about I suppose about 60 years of age and she did the little girl's voice and I turn around I know you didn't see you there before it's Jerry B for me yeah that was good fun you made some amazing might save my neck actually because I forgotten it about a year and I was absolutely broke and I remember Victor was still measuring me then we got this check for 300 quid and we have really eaten for weeks you know we went to a Chinese restaurant you know and we ate load of food and came out of the restaurant threw up on me you make some amazing decisions them and you worked with Tim Rice singing the role of a priest on the album of Jesus Christ Superstar halo and he made you an offer yeah they they asked me if I would accept one percent or forty quid well I needed the money to pay the rent so I said forty quid but in fact if I'd have said one percent I would probably earn two hundred thousand quid that's life in there yeah you worked so hard for so long then in 72 of the real break came with Gary Glitter having decided against horace hydrogen and inky vomits vomits sally Sparkle how did the look and the band come about what we wrote might Leander and I wrote rock and roll parts 1 & 2 and really up till then I've never written a song and it was Mike's encouragement to say you know the only way you're ever going to get this audience participation thing over like do you want to touch and everybody says yeah you know right you didn't who did you do you want to touch to get the audience involved with your music you've got to write it yourself oh and once we started doing that and homing in on it it became such great fun here all the time we're working on these new ideas between 72 I think wasn't 75 years about 11 hits so what went wrong why did he talk crash down around your ears I think I've been doing programs like this every day from 73 to 76 I mean I was thought I was followed to the the lobe of a camera you know that was I was always in makeup I forgot what Paul dad looked like you know pretty up for that she to be honest I'd rather wear the makeup and I I just needed a break so I took all my weekends in one time and went on holiday for a year and I just messed her I've been to Australia by that time 35 times I've never actually seen anything other than the studio or you know the inside of an aeroplane or something and then I started drinking rather heavily I think probably because it was a bit like winning the football pools you know I suddenly got all my money in one go showing the Wilson government they we were paying eighty seven and a half percent in the pound tax so that was pretty crippling everybody was leaving the country the show business walas and Rod Stewart said to me one day we're having lunch together he said I don't know how you're going to hang on I've got to go to LA because there's no way I'm going to be able to make a living or even live in the country and one thing after another and and my career I bought a house a beautiful house and I'd never ever had a house before as a family we it's all in the book actually we moved around a lot and so you know what it's like you suddenly get house-proud you want to do the kitchen and the bathroom and the bathroom I remember spending about 25,000 pounds on the bathroom imported marble and all that stuff you know and your curtains design in the curtains you seem to have had a fair share of sponges as well it struck me that you had an awful lot of fans but very few clothes and reliable friends I think like I think I did have some toys reliable friends but I think that that there was it's you know I'm I'm a bit of a monster Gary Glitter could be a bit of a monster I surely know oh yes and I think that you know it was a lot easier at that time to say yes Gary than to say no but I was fortunate because I mean my hero was Elvis Presley and when I got into the drugs and drinking a lot at least I had people tapping me on the shoulder readily and saying don't you think you're going a bit over the top you know did you also feel in a way that you you you were being disloyal to your fans who had this so great episode that was much trumped in the press but you're going to marry this girl Mary yeah and it was all totally phone Ian's you came on chat shows like this saying yes this is what we're all going to do this and you actually you weren't really I was manipulated during that period you see there wasn't enough hours in the day to do all the press you know you things like what color toothpaste you use and stuff you know so and I got lazy I got a little bit lazy and I left it to other people and I was actually going out with Mary so Mike who's my manager said you know or Tony Barrow I think the press agent said why don't you you know let's have a romance so they started this romance and when you get things going in television or in the media it's very hard to slow it down you know it's that's a monster in itself but the Glitter game show that we see with you now this is the new improved the real Gary Glitter's well yeah I don't drink I haven't had a drink for six years in fact anybody you know it was got a problem try it try going running every day it's a much better alternatives the best high in the world to to get fit and clean well now that you're back on it and you are on that Highway we sincerely hope you stay there stay with us maybe meet our next guest but for the meantime take Gary Glitter okay back pleasure to be here much better outfit this one less than the one you had on the top right how did you come to get the part I wouldn't I thought you were an obvious choice of that well somebody's got the script that came through the window would have been brick and it was so unusual I'll have to have a go at it it was very strange it wasn't the malicious rumor that I then put about that you in fact they would not to put much makeup on you exactly the gentleman thank you that was ugly nobody's chin fair it's nice to see you back again I've been a family for many years I'll tell you thank you because what II started up close was a football of the hand you have it bloomed yeah when this gift came through the door I thought well it's different it's very strange impassive it's very funny and passive is a little bit medieval we're gonna be seeing it this Saturday night on the BB I just thought it was incredibly difficult to do I mean all I ate in was a nuisance because you know I mean I am a see I'm a seafood eater everything I see I eat before the Truman this thing it's this salami cheese and that's something and after a while they were home to me did you put any weight oh if I did a bit can I have a broad children big you know a deep chest but not so beyond I know but the thing was I did actually put a lot of weight something well at the end I began to learn your nurse will the rest of you have a book it judiciously spit yeah I know I know Ursula what a mind being something that we all you know like steak and kidney pie something like that where will he send me something like that if you big oaf Gary you had the fight with the wait didn't you mean cuz you yeah putting on the pounds and knocking yeah I use I used to take those dreadful slimming pills and if you start that that's the worst thing because of the minute you stop it youporn twice as much way issues this are you expecting after this huge role I was gonna say we know vitamin pills like no it's four foot six the waist 300 work you put it against the frigid when you go Tracy bless you sir she put me over I got the weight off I got those from 15 I was 17 is this gonna be the start of a new history on it career for doors I mean it will you go serious now I'd like to do more of it no don't think no she were offered to put a full stuff for the RSC Royal Shakespeare Company yes one was dear why did you turn that down people would kill for a poem yes it was the money I really was it was the money now I mean the figure I couldn't afford to do it but they're marvelous people you've gotta sign for so long and one day God spared me I'm at me able to somebody does Intel mania so well done but I don't you love it but I don't think you can put out all your eggs in one basket that you need options and I think the older you get the more you lots abroad now you thought out of it a bit go with doing Saturday night which was great we see a good musical or musical it works for me comes up about every 15 years yeah you don't think you don't fine you don't find parts that easy I just thought Rocky Horror Show would have been an absolutely right for you yet you said not well yeah but I mean I partly I'm too old for it now the legs are still good best legs in New Zealand well the thing is it I know it means it comes a time in your life and everybody you know serese this wonderful are these by the way are lovely on both of them when you get apprentice you're out the once it comes up you've got to take it people say oh should you take the chance under there you've got to you owe me you take the chance you know just show everybody have to move on a little bit don't leaving but I'll be like whatever you do moving on to the writing your eleventh book the other well I've met at two or three of the others I didn't realize that they were 11 of them yeah you're right quite well those name well I use a pen is that something that you can see yourself doing when you give up the the day job is actually going being a proper writer nothing none of that looks what you follow you know there's a lot this chill up about this day and age so they're just Lampoon friends is so well fed my movies and I'm through the Raymond Chandler well my lover I mean if the sir he's got the solar dial of the people will itch to buy the opening paragraph is the curtains were drawn but the rest of the furniture was real I mix myself a little David coq10 I call it that because when you have to you have to go live down suddenly by a big oven ring but I answered a muted for a phone call in Spain from an agent called Antonio he was wov oh yeah do you know he said there's a Russian spy coming your way he just brought into atomic laboratory still neither jobs and dozy doats a little indeed a disappointment that you're not shortlisted for the Booker Prize next week well I'm not particularly there other things of the other thing you know yeah you actually of course did the first sequel to gone with the wind there's a lot of fuss being made about the sequel to go with the wind but you wrote it I'll come back with the wind this is what gets me I was sponsored by renny's No the thing was announced with - in the motion the thing was I'd always thought I'll rat the sequel to this and it's based in in Britain where Lancashire auction North umber and Cheshire break away from the rest of the country and the worst is because the American Civil War started the fan on Fort Sumter in this book a man who stabbed something far enough for Dunlop but they couldn't charge because it was traffic on the m6 do you find it easy to write is it and we can just go onto the page yeah sometimes you get an idea between the wife only simply do it upstairs or whatever yours is commonly Gary yours is very much actually pouring your heart out onto the page and other people wouldn't have been quite so honest yeah it's an autobiography I mean you know I wasn't I said to him I didn't think I've done enough really I mean you know I read David Niven or so many moons a balloon he was 70 when I wrote that but but they said that you had actually been around for 33 years you know there's there's lots to do lots to talk about but a lot of people think you're older than you are you're 47 47 that's just one leg you see they don't give him 47 about six in my brochure you know for the toil which is twenty-seven of three quarters official and I stuck to that for the last well you know you started very young there yeah it's a month seventy-two you started twenty seven again at the army what did you do first first thing you did first job yeah oh look the first job was working for the cup up I mean downhill from then relented let me give you a tip yeah get on with this job to the dude because you've been given the chance cuz nobody else available don't knock it tried to survive you know so we've got Nala coming up I know you doing your usual dressing it was a warning Fanta this year yes sir wonder this year with the dick whittington nice counts John nettles Ruth Wilma let's get lessons Rolie polies are there there's much in the girls but they all been down at once you know losing that was daylight thank you for bringing a spot of daylight into our Laurie up second it greatly shows our guys yeah I love that Jackie Bell okay I'm gonna ignore him now but not for long Dawson thanks to these two Alison for helping me on my way with me tomorrow excellent apprised Eric Idle wonderful series see tractors presenters mouth Holmes and Mike deGruy they're in their futuristic Pablo mitts sitting here why should tomorrow be different Robert Powell is co-star in the plate of Irish prima ballerina Natalia Makarova music from level 42 and of the air if I survived thanks for joining

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Length: 19min 45sec (1185 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 14 2012