Singer and convicted pedophile Gary Glitter has dropped his campaign to have his name taken off England's sex offender registry, court officials said.

Former British rock star and convicted pedophile Gary Glitter is appealing a court order requiring him to notify authorities of his out-of-country travel plans. Glitter, 64, recently served about two years in a Vietnamese prison for sexually abusing two young girls.

Singer and convicted British child molester Gary Glitter is expected to be paid about $164,000 in royalties for a song used in a commercial.

BRIEFLY touted as the "Next Big Thing" in the mid-1990s, Newcastle-based Ultrasound made one gloriously-overblown album - Everything Picture - and then messily imploded.

I've got two confessions to make. I once kissed Gary Glitter. It was 48 years ago and he was called Paul Raven then. Someone I knew in Wallington, where I come from, used to arrange for emerging pop stars to strut their stuff at the local Public Hall.