Alvin Stardust was the owner of a guitar insured for £1.5 million. 12-year old Bernard Jewry, who would later change his name to Alvin Stardust. “When I was 12 my mum and dad bought me my first guitar ...
There’s little question that David Bowie’s rise to superstardom in 1972 was a carefully calculated campaign, involving an unforgettable, otherworldly image, a strategically timed public announcement ...
A guitar used by pop star Alvin Stardust to collect the autographs of some of music’s biggest names is now worth more than £1 million. Stardust, 71, was 12 when he was given the instrument in 1955 by ...
IT was 50 years ago that Buddy Holly signed a guitar offered to him by young Bernard Jewry - and that event has led to a nostalgic rock & roll tour by Alvin Stardust. "My parents bought me a three ...
A guitar bought for Alvin Stardust for just over £1, when he was a 12-year-old boy, is now worth more than £1 million. The budding pop star took his three quarter-sized Spanish guitar everywhere and ...
As anyone who's been reading Ear of Newt blogs probably knows, Mick Ronson is one of our fave guitar players of all time. For the uninitiated, he's the platinum-blonde picker whose wondrous riffs lit ...
The general idea of guys with guitars at a coffee shop makes me shudder, too. But this is anything but that. Instead, this high-quality bill features a trifecta of guitarists all operating on ...
The guitar belonging to Alvin Stardust stole the show on Friday evening (May 26) when it was valued at a whopping £400,000 on Channel 4's "Posh Pawn" series. The singer, who lived near Cranleigh, died ...
Alvin, then Bernard Jewry, took the guitar to a Buddy Holly and The Crickets concert in Doncaster in 1958. The American rock’n’roller signed it, sparking an obsession that would see the instrument’s ...