Alvin Stardust

Alvin Stardust Bernard William Jewry was born on September 27 1944 in North Londons Muswell Hill the Jewry family moved to Mansfield in Nottinghamshire shortly after Stardusts second birthday His mother ran a boarding house which was frequented by musicians and entertainers appearing at the Mansfield Theatre which doubtless cultivated his lifelong interest in music and the stage He was appearing in pantomimes when only just out of infancy and he grew up appearing in local shows and plays while he began to get into music around the age of twelve at the time of the UK Skiffle boom He was still a boarder at the Southwell Minster Collegiate Grammar School when he formed his first group The Jewry Rhythm Band who played local fetes youth clubs etc