Escort for Glitter

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33874, 20 June 1975, Page 14

Escort for Glitter

Dozens of screaming — some hysterical — teeny-boppers greeted their idol, rock star Gary Glitter, at Christchurch Airport yesterday afternoon.

Two hefty security men were needed to cut a swathe through the fans to a waiting car. But even their efforts did not prevent Gary’s fur coat 'from being ripped.

j Six motor-cycles from thej I Epitaph Riders club pro-1 jvided an escort for the Glit- ! ter entourage from the airport to their hotel. : Gary Glitter and his Glitjter Band are in New Zealand, , for a two-week tour which (begins with its first show in ‘ Dunedin on Sunday evening.

i Christchurch fans will have to wait until Wednesday to see Glitter perform. However, he will make a brief personal appearance today in the Barrington Park Mall at 112.30. Gary has a single called /‘Doing All Right with the I Boys,” which is rated twentieth on the British charts at I present. The record has not I been released in New Zealand yet, but his manager plans to remedy that smartly. ;The Glitter Band — without Gary — has a single, “Tears II Cry,” on the British charts. I The Glitter show is not just

‘ a stand-there-and-sing affair. > Elaborate props such as ' a ■ chopper motor-cycle are used f in the acts, and Gary says i that he loses 51b a perform- : ance leaping around in his 'shiny, glittery, tinfoil clothes. I In fact the clothes are the ! [mainstay of the Gary Glitter 'image. ; The show’s supporting artist is Mark Williams, who ■ is at present topping the New I Zealand charts with “Yester- ■ [day Was Just the Beginning '[of My Life.” He will be Jbacked by the three-piece Jband Mr Jive.