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 Collection". His music is still widely used in films, recent notable cases being "Breakfast on Pluto", "Death Proof", "Lords of Dogtown", "Billy Elliot", "Jarhead", "Moulin Rouge!", "", "Breaking-Up", "Hot Fuzz", "Click", "School of Rock" , "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World," "Dallas Buyers Club and Wonderland""." Bolan is still cited by many guitar-centric bands as a huge influence (Joy Division/New Order's Bernard Sumner has said that the first single he owned was "Ride a White Swan".) However, he always maintained he was a poet who put lyrics to music. The tunes were never as important as the words. An altogether less