Shane Fenton & the Fentones

Johnny Theakstone is the forgotten man of early British rock & roll. Many others vie for the title, but none of them even come close. Dead before his 17th birthday, unknown and therefore publicly unmourned, Theakstone would nevertheless live on when his group, Shane Fenton & the Fentones, persuaded roadie Bernard Jewry to slip into the title role to help them through a crisis -- and then he was born again a decade later, when Jewry reinvented himself as glam rocker Alvin Stardust. Originally named Johnny Theakstone & the Tremolos, the band lined up as Theakstone (vocals), Ger...