"He was a cartoon pop star from the early seventies who recycled his one basic song in a handful of different hits. He was famous for having a distinctive two drummers style, and was part of the style called 'Glam' which also included 'The Sweet', 'Mud', 'The Rubettes' etc. etc.. The hits are quite catchy in a moronic sort of way but ultimately crap. He stopped having hits pretty quickly, but amazingly has managed to continue his career continually up to this day, by becoming a joke, and using any and every opportunity to promote himself, and never changing and still wearing the same stupid sparkling outfits and glitter wigs. He always plays big shows at Christmas." - Stuart
To quote Pete Robinson's Justified and Ancient History: "For the re-mix [of Doctorin' the TARDIS], Gary Glitter himself was recruited for a special "Gary in the TARDIS" version of the single, and a new track "Gary Joins the JAMs" in which Kingboy snubbed James Brown's samples in favour of "the Godfather of Glam"...Mr Glitter himself. Drummond later said "He's the original Diamond Geezer - he'll use anything to his advantage.". Glitter thanks the KLF in his autobiography "Leader" for taking him on and getting him on the cover of the NME."
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