Alvin Stardust

The name, the sound, and the image were brand new, but when Alvin Stardust first appeared on the British scene in November of 1973 glowering in a tight leather cat suit and professing his love for his little coo-ca-choo, more than one observer took a look at him and said, "I know that face." And they did. More than a decade prior, during 1961 and 1962, this same figure was going under the name of Shane Fenton and scoring with two of the most memorable hits of the pre-Beatles '60s: "I'm a Moody Guy" and "Cindy's Birthday." Since that time, he had sunk into obscurity, haunting...