The 79-year-old was recalled to jail less than six weeks after he was released halfway through his 16-year sentence in February last year for breaching his licence conditions by allegedly viewing downloaded images of children.
A parole hearing to decide whether he should be freed again was held behind closed doors two weeks ago after a request for it to take place in public was turned down on the grounds that it was too difficult to contact all his victims.
A Parole Board panel decided it was "not satisfied that release at this point would be safe for the protection of the public", it was announced today.
Glitter, whose real name is Paul Gadd, was jailed in 2015 for sexually abusing three schoolgirls between 1975 and 1980.
He attacked two girls, aged 12 and 13, after inviting them backstage to his dressing room and isolating them from their mothers.
In 1975, the singer crept into the bed of his third victim - a girl who was aged under 10 at the time - in an attempt to rape her.
The allegations came to light when he became the first person to be arrested under Operation Yewtree - the investigation launched by the Metropolitan Police in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal.
He was automatically released from HMP The Verne, a low-security prison in Portland, Dorset, last year after serving half of his 16-year fixed-term determinate sentence.
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