

** In TheEighties, he appeared in ] ] ] adverts for the Young Persons Railcard, trying to appear younger so he could qualify for the Railcard.

the faster you tell them after the event the better Gary Glitters refusal to board a plane in Thailand left him temporarily in limbo. This became a lot more chilling in hindsight. just got back off my hols and was dissapointed at the lack of gary glitter jokes, come on people topical jokes are good. An embarrassed Gary clearly makes a "shh" motion. * NeverLiveItDown: ** ] on ''This is Your Life'' has Creator/RoaldDahl's daughter Tessa appear and share an anecdote about she used to take her schoolgirl friends and charge them to see him at her house where he was staying. This became a lot more chilling in hindsight. * FunnyAneurysmMoment: ** ] on ''This is Your Life'' has Creator/RoaldDahl's daughter Tessa appear and share an anecdote about she used to take her schoolgirl friends and charge them to see him at her house where he was staying. If anything, his over the top style makes him look like a parody, compared to anything else. This made his music very cheap and manufactured, making him the butt of music jokes for much of TheSeventies. others) and he was regarded as a fairly safe and unambitious artist, the Glam rocker that kids and parents could enjoy. Compared to many household names of the era, his music ends up sounding like a cheap variety show act made to capitalize on the success of bands like Music/, Music/RoxyMusic, and Music/TRex (among others). * SoOkayItsAverage: The general reception for his music throughout the decades when you take away his sex-abuse history. Not helped was his friendship with the disgraced Creator/JimmySavile, also infamous for similar reasons. Nowadays, however, he is perhaps known ''only'' by the fact that he was arrested in 1997 for possession of child pornography, which was then followed by multiple scandals involving him sexually abusing minors. * OvershadowedB圜ontroversy: He was once a famed glam rocker in the 1970s, with his mostly instrumental song "Rock and Roll, Part 2" been played as a popular cheering song at American sporting events for several decades.
