Alvin Stardust (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Alvin Stardust is an English pop singer and stage actor. Moving to Mansfield, Nottinghamshire at a young age, he attended the Southwell Minster Collegiate Grammar School as a boarder. He made his stage debut in pantomime at the age of four. In the early 1960s, Shane Fenton and The Fentones were an unknown teenage band who recorded a demo tape and mailed it in to a BBC programme with the hope of being picked to appear on TV. While awaiting a reply from the BBC, the band's 17 year old singer Shane Fenton died as a result of the rheumatic fever he had suffered in childhood. The rest of the band decided to break up, but then unexpectedly received a letter from the BBC inviting them to come to London to audition in person for the programme. Theakstone's mother asked the band to stay together, and to keep its name, in honour of her son's memory