Alvin Stardust | Pop review

Embassy, SkegnessAlvin Stardust was one of the more curious 1970s glam phenomenons. A giant-quiffed, leather-clad rocker with oversized jewellery who inspired a generation of children to copy his movements in their own PVC gloves, his signature hit My Coo Ca Choo's invitation to "groove on the mat" seemed like a threat to society (or at least its fashions). Nobody imagined that his magnificently preposterous sideburns were stuck on, that he had been 60s rocker Shane Fenton, or that he'd actually...

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