What is your claim to fame ?

[Drago]

You've lost me there, sorry.

Two different men have been Alvin Stardust. Shelley was the first, but decided he couldn't handle the fame so Bernard Jewry took over the persona and became the one most folk know.

If memory serves this wasnt the first time Jewry had done something like this, as he was the second man to be Shane Fenton in the Fentones.

 

[Dogtrousers]

@Drago 's claim to fame is that he knows more than anyone about Alvin Stardust.

Well more than anyone on Cyclechat, which is much the same thing.

 

[FrankCrank]

I was driving down the M4 long time ago, and a Roller came past with the plate 'STAR 1', not sure if Freddie was at the wheel.

Had quite a few of these near misses over the years. Ricky Gervais grew up on the same council estate as me, same age as well, but don't recall ever meeting him.

All down to fate in the end really.

 

[Cavalol]

Two different men have been Alvin Stardust. Shelley was the first, but decided he couldn't handle the fame so Bernard Jewry took over the persona and became the one most folk know.

If memory serves this wasnt the first time Jewry had done something like this, as he was the second man to be Shane Fenton in the Fentones.

Thank you! Every day is a school day, I had no idea there had been two.

I can't remember the exact year he went past us, possibly about 1977 and seem to recall he was in an Austin Princess.

 

[FrankCrank]

Speaking of Alvin, anyone remember this

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiKQO6BVzyA


and I think this Guy was an avid fan

 

[Dogtrousers]

Sometime in the 80s the Queen drive through my parents' village. My mother was gardening in the front garden when the car and associated vehicles drive through. She didn't wave. (My mum, that is. HRH may or may not have waved).

I wasn't there.

 

[Drago]

Speaking of Alvin, anyone remember this

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiKQO6BVzyA


and I think this Guy was an avid fan
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The difference being Stardust didn't buy his drivers licence from a stranger in a backroom of a bar in Dublin!

 

[raleighnut]

Speaking of Alvin, anyone remember this

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiKQO6BVzyA


and I think this Guy was an avid fan
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The girls actually had the 'right of way' and the nerk who 'beeped' his hooter was wrong, he should have given way to them.

 

[CarbonClem]

At my daughters primary school there were only a few 'school Dads' so we were on nodding terms, at least, with occasional small talk being held.
So Carl Beech, me and a couple of others ....

 

[DaveReading]

Speaking of Alvin, anyone remember this

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiKQO6BVzyA

Ruislip High Street, if I'm not mistaken.

 

[lenfield]

At my daughters primary school there were only a few 'school Dads' so we were on nodding terms, at least, with occasional small talk being held.
So Carl Beech, me and a couple of others ....

Carl Beech who was jailed for making false allegations about VIP sex rings?

 

[Alex321]

The girls actually had the 'right of way' and the nerk who 'beeped' his hooter was wrong, he should have given way to them.

That would certainly bebtrue now, not so sure it was then.

But right of way doesn't mean much when you are under a car or bus.

 

[DRM]

1 around 1970 "ish" was in our local chippy with my mum when who walked in, but Jimmy Savile luckily he did a few how's about that's & now then, now then's & b*ggered off with his fish n chips.
2 Was in a cafe on the Norfolk Broads, when Rod Hull walked in, had a look round to see if the owners were looking, grabbed a handful of sugar sachets, and walked off.

 

[FishFright]

Jenifer Saunders asked my for directions to where Bed News where playing. She was really pretty

 

[Sharky]

Another claim to fame, was I went to the same school as Stuart Sutcliffe and although he was there a few years before me, we both took art and had the same teacher. My art came to nothing, but many years after his death, they found one of his works in the art cupboard and they sold it to fund some project.