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 Flying V with vibrato and an early 1960s model Olympic White Fender Stratocaster decorated with a paisley-patterned teardrop shape, which had been his main guitar in the immediate aftermath of his resumption of use of electric instrumentation in 1969 and until the purchase of the Les Paul circa August 1970. The Stratocaster was eventually destroyed onstage during the 1974 United States tour after becoming irreparably faulty. One with both an eye and ear for the unusual, Bolan also played various models of visually striking guitars from smaller independent companies, among them a Veleno aluminium guitar, and the Burns Flyte. For