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
Derry and the Seniors in Europe with German-based band The Krew, before returning to the UK in 1970. He played as a session musician for Marc Bolan and others, before recording the album "Band On The Run" with Paul McCartney and Wings, and recorded and toured worldwide with McCartney until the end of the 1970s. Freddie Fowell changed his name to Freddie Starr, and led several Liverpool beat groups including Freddie Starr and the Midnighters, before appearing on the TV talent show "Opportunity Knocks" and then becoming one of the UK's leading comic performers in the 1970s and 1980s. An expanded CD version of