Er, no. But it’s fairly hilarious that the one-time glam rock star thinks he can just return to the music industry. Granted, the industry has been lenient in the past with alleged child sex offenders (R. Kelly and Michael Jackson spring to mind), but those pop stars still had market potential and were never convicted of molestation. Glitter, on the other hand, has been living in a Vietnamese prison for unlawful sex with a 10- and an 11-year-old. There’s no getting around that.
When Glitter gets out jail in August for raping children, he won’t be working on this “comeback album” of his in England. He would have to register as a sex offender, and the mother country – which once before arrested him for possession of child pornography – isn’t exactly begging to have him back. Nor is Cambodia, which expelled him for – we can presume – a frustrated January-November romance.
Mr. Glitter and his lawyer are exploring long-term residency in Hong Kong, but even they reserve the right to deny his creepy wrinkled ass access to the region’s supply of tiny people. Glitter may have to resort to recording his guaranteed commercial disaster in international waters, because unless sea creatures can figure out a way to voice their collective disgust with the man, it may be his last and best hope for a completely hopeless venture.
