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Which is, after all, how we should remember him. Alvin Stardust is a reminder that one of the very best things pop music can do is to make you feel ever-so-slightly afraid.

The chameleonic artist also had a solid stage and screen career. He helmed shows on BBC Radio 2 and Radio 5, and at one stage hosted a Sunday morning children’s TV series It’s Stardust on Britain’s free-to-air ITV. He appeared in various U.K. TV series, including Hollyoaks. a b "Alvin Stardust | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". www.officialcharts.com . Retrieved 9 September 2021. Thompson, Dave. "Biography of Shane Fenton and the Fentones". Allmusic . Retrieved 31 December 2010. Stardust also starred in the UK tour of Godspell and played Uriah Heep in David Copperfield– The Musical and Sir Billy Butlin in The Butlin Story at the London Palladium. In 2005 he starred as the Child Catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, also at the London Palladium. [11] He was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1985 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews. [ citation needed]

Selby, Jenn (23 October 2014). "Alvin Stardust dead: Singer passes away following short battle with cancer aged 72". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 23 October 2014 . Retrieved 23 October 2014. Lord Levy, who founded Magnet Records and now sits in the House of Lords, said: “He was one of the most professional artists that I had the privilege of working with. He was a real gentleman.

Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19thed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p.524. ISBN 1-904994-10-5. The singles " I Feel Like Buddy Holly" (written and produced by Mike Batt) and "I Won't Run Away" reached number 7 in the UK Singles Chart in 1984. "So Near To Christmas" was a minor hit, No. 29, in the same year.He later took a number of roles in musical theatre, including as the child catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and on television shows including Hollyoaks and Doctors. But he was also, by all accounts, a phenomenal live performer. Seek out the 1975 clip of Alvin, introduced by Bernard Manning as “Elvin Stardust”, on Granada television’s Wheeltappers & Shunters’ Social Club, raving it up in front of a green sign reading “No Obscene Language On Ladies’ Nights” to an audience of Northerners clad in brown and grey, including one old feller brazenly reading Playboy. It’s simultaneously our very own Aloha From Hawaii and the most British thing that’s ever happened.