Green Day donating royalties earned by sampling song co-written by sex offender Gary Glitter

Green Day on Thursday released a song from the rock band’s next album, but its members said they are refusing any royalties it earns because of its connection to a sex criminal.

The Grammy-winning group announced it is donating royalties generated by the song, “Oh Yeah!”, on account of its association with Paul Francis Gadd, a British singer and convicted pedophile better known as Gary Glitter.

Without mentioning Gadd by name, Green Day acknowledged the group’s newest song includes a sample of a Joan Jett tune, “Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah),” originally co-written and recorded by the convicted sex offender.

“One of the writers on that song is a total [expletive] so we’re donating our royalties from this song to IJM and RAINN,” Green Day said on YouTube, referring to the International Justice Mission and the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network.

Both organizations subsequently thanked the group from their respective Twitter accounts.

“Thank you for thinking of RAINN; the proceeds will help us continue to provide survivors & their loved ones with the help they deserve,” RAINN tweeted.

“We are so excited about this surprise! We’re grateful to be thought of alongside @RAINN during #HumanTraffickingAwarenessMonth,” IJM tweeted. “Thank you for joining the fight to end slavery in our lifetime.”

Gadd, 75, was convicted and jailed in 1999 after admittedly downloading child pornography. More recently, he was found guilty in 2015 of attempted rape, indecent assault and having sex with a child, and was sentenced to 16 years in British prison.

Formed in California in 1986, Green Day won the band’s first of five Grammy Awards in 1995 following the release of the group’s third studio album, “Dookie.” The band’s newest record, “Father of All…,” is scheduled to be released Feb. 7.

Gadd’s version of “Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah)” was originally released in 1973. Green Day’s new song samples a cover version that appeared on 1981’s “Bad Reputation,” the first solo studio album by Joan Jett.