Thursday, May 08, 2014

Hey!

Happy 70th, Gary Glitter.  He was a fairly successful musical career until the late 1990s when he was found to have downloaded child pornography and was caught having sex with a minor.

But today, let's forget all that, and celebrate the singer and musician.  He was gigantic in the 70s in England, but only had one real hit in America. But it was one of the oddest top 40 songs ever. It was actually the flip side of.  Side A was "Rock And Roll (Part 1)" but everyone turned it over and started playing Part 2.  It went on to become very popular at sporting events.

Here's the rarely heard Part 1:



Here's the part you know:



Here are some of his big hits in Britain that didn't even chart in America:






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