Gary Glitter to finish album after Vietnam prison: report
HANOI (AFP) — Jailed British pop singer Gary Glitter, serving a three-year term in a Vietnamese prison for child molestation, said he would continue with his unfinished album when freed, state media said.
Glitter -- real name Paul Francis Gadd -- was sentenced in March 2006 for committing obscene acts with two girls aged 11 and 12 in the southern Vietnamese resort town of Vung Tau.
"I have an unfinished album. In jail, I have planned to finish the album after my release," Glitter, 64, was quoted as saying on the online edition of People's Police newspaper.
"I have sung rock 'n roll for 40 years. After the jail, I will continue rock 'n roll."
Glitter received a three-month term reduction in 2007 when Vietnam marked its traditional Tet lunar New Year. His official release date is set to be this coming August.
"I will contact my friends and lawyers to decide where is the best place to live, but probably Hong Kong or Singapore," the former rocker was quoted in Vietnamese in Sunday's report.
Glitter, a former "glam rocker" once famed in Britain for his flamboyant bouffant wigs and silver jumpsuits, had several hits in the 1970s including "I'm The Leader Of The Gang (I Am!)" and "Do You Wanna Touch Me?"
He fell from grace when a British court jailed him in 1999 for possession of child pornography. He served half a four-month term and then left Britain to live in several other countries, including Cambodia, before moving to Vietnam.
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