Speaking from his five-bedroom home, Starr went on to say that he had only met Gary Glitter once at an England football match - where he contemplated stealing the rock singer’s wig.

He added: ‘I was only in the same room as him at an England game in the Eighties against Greece.

‘I was there with (publicist) Max Clifford and he was sat in front of me. At half time he got up and Max said to me "that’s a wig he’s wearing". He came over and said hello, then went back to his seat, and all I wanted to do was flip off that wig.

‘I had visions of it being thrown around the crowd. I was right on the brink of doing it when Max said "No, don’t do that”.

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