Bernard William Jewry Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Bernard William Jewry (27 September 1942 – 23 October 2014), known as Alvin Stardust, was an English pop singer and stage actor. Performing first as Shane Fenton, Stardust's stage and screen career spanned over a half-century. He is best known for singles released in the 1970s and 1980s, including "My Coo Ca Choo", the UK Singles Chart-topper "Jealous Mind", and "I Feel Like Buddy Holly".
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Star Sign
Libra
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[on the origin of his stage name] It started off as Elvin Starr, because they wanted a kind of rocky, country name. But [a woman] who was doing promotion for us said it wasn't "glam-rocky" enough, so it became Stardust and then Alvin.
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He started playing guitar as a youth. He met one of his biggest influences, Buddy Holly, at a gig in Doncaster, and played backstage with the singer and his band the Crickets.
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His trademark sideburns and black gloves came about by accident: he needed to dye his hair black for an appearance on Top of the Pops in 1973, but the dye stained his cheeks and hands black so he hastily donned stick-on sideburns and black gloves to disguise this.
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Playing "The Child Catcher" in the UK Touring production of musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. [October 2006]