Jealous Mind: 16 Classic Tracks

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As Alvin Stardust, he released thirty-five singles, one EP, eleven studio albums (two posthumously and three which were re-recordings of his hits) and two live albums. At least ten compilation albums have been released comprising Stardust's songs. The band had some intermittent chart success, but interest waned, and by 1970 Jewry was living in Liverpool with his wife and baby son when he received a summons from Michael Levy, the pop impresario who, as Lord Levy, was later a close friend of Tony Blair.

Stardust, who had a successful second career in musical theatre, and appeared occasionally as a TV actor, had just recorded his first new album for 30 years. Called simply Alvin, It is due to be released on Monday.Thompson, Steve (22 May 2021). "Behind The Wheel: Alvin Stardust". The Steve Thompson Band . Retrieved 8 September 2021. A songwriter for Levy’s record label, Peter Shelley, had written My Coo Ca Choo and wanted a distinctive performer to front it. Between them the pair created the Alvin Stardust name – the original choice was Elvin, melding Elvis Presley and Gene Vincent – before dressing their charge in leather and telling him to appear mean and surly, a counterpoint to the glam image popular at the time.

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. As Shane Fenton, Jewry released eight singles with the Fentones and four solo singles (one of which was under another alias 'Jo-Jo Ellis'). The Fentones also released two instrumental singles which have been included here. No studio albums were released by the group, but one EP and two compilation albums have been released since they split. Pretend" was a hit in the United Kingdom in 1981, reaching number four in the UK Singles Chart. It reached number one in the Dutch Top 40 in November 1981. The song was also successful in Portugal in 1983. [12]All further Alvin Stardust records were sung by Jewry. Stardust had further chart successes with the hits " Jealous Mind" (UK No. 1), [9] "You, You, You", "Red Dress" and "Good Love Can Never Die". In total, he amassed seven Top Ten entries, in a chart span lasting almost 25 years. [10] Win a copy of Alvin's new album" (PDF). Record Mirror. 16 November 1974. p.19 . Retrieved 8 September 2021. Bernard William Jewry was born 27 September 1942 in Muswell Hill, then in Middlesex (now in the London Borough of Haringey). [1] [2] Having moved at a young age to Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, where his mother ran a boarding house frequented by musicians and entertainers appearing locally, [3] Jewry attended the Southwell Minster Collegiate Grammar School (now Southwell Minster School) in Southwell, Nottinghamshire, near Newark-on-Trent, as a boarder. He made his stage debut in pantomime at the age of four. 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. In 1995, he joined the cast of the soap opera, Hollyoaks, playing the character Greg Andersen from October 1995 to July 1996. [ citation needed]

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. SHANE FENTON & THE FENTONES | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". www.officialcharts.com . Retrieved 9 September 2021. Alvin Stardust the album got a bit lost in the run up to Christmas 1974 and as a result only scraped into the UK Top 40. Nevertheless I found this a hugely enjoyable set, probably for me Stardust’s best. The bonuses here mop up the 45 flipsides and include the number eleven hit Good Love Can Never Die, a jangly pop tune imbued with a restless rhythm. The energetic Come On! is a highlight, and Route 66 is ably spoofed to include Newcastle and the A1 on a very wry Roadie Roll On. Wilby, Peter (13 June 2017). "Elite private headteacher: 'The children we educate will create a fairer society' ". The Guardian . Retrieved 25 December 2017.He married three times, and had four children. Of his two sons from his first marriage, one is the headteacher of a grammar school in Surrey while the other is a drum and bass DJ and producer.

Jewry later also appeared in Billy Fury's movie Play It Cool (1962) and the Tommy Steele film It's All Happening (1963). He was managed by Larry Parnes. [7] Persona change [ edit ] 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. His eldest son, Shaun Fenton, was born in 1969. [23] His birth was registered in December 1969 under the name of Fenton. [24] The other son is the drum and bass producer Adam F. I may not have known him long but even in that short time he proved to be one of the most genuine and likeable men I’ve ever met. His passing is a huge and sad loss.”Stardust was part of the Green Cross Code road safety campaign Children's Heroes (1976), which saw him instructing children to look both ways before they crossed the road. [11] Later work [ edit ] Stardust at Guilfest 2012 Rice, Jo (1982). The Guinness Book of 500 Number One Hits (1sted.). Enfield, Middlesex: Guinness Superlatives Ltd. p.156. ISBN 0-85112-250-7. Savill, Richard (8 September 2006). "Alvin Stardust's son swaps glam for grammar". The Daily Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on 22 April 2013 . Retrieved 28 September 2013.