Marc Almond featured his first new song since the motorbike accident, "Redeem me (Beauty Will Redeem the World)". "Stardom Road" was to be one of three albums for the Sanctuary label, the UK's largest independent record label up until 2007 when it got itself into financial difficulty and was sold off in June 2007 to Universal Music Group. In July 2007, Almond celebrated his 50th birthday on stage at the Shepherds Bush Empire in London and in September performed at a tribute show to Marc Bolan, his teenage hero. At the concert he dueted with Bolan's wife, Gloria Jones, on an impromptu
Marc Bolan vocalist Marc Bolan. In 1993, Guns N' Roses covered "Buick MacKane" on "The Spaghetti Incident?" but it was mislabelled on the album as "Buick Makane". Oasis' 1994 hit song "Cigarettes & Alcohol" is acknowledged as drawing strongly upon "Get It On" in its instrumental music. In 2003, Depeche Mode's Martin Gore recorded covers of "Life Is Strange" and "Left Hand Luke and the Beggar Boys", and included them as b-sides of the single "Stardust". In 2006, Def Leppard released their album "Yeah!", which contains covers of their favourite bands while growing up, the first song on this album is "20th