Alvin Stardust was due to release his first album for 30 years and six days after what became his last show at the Regal Cinema, Evesham. He had been diagnosed with prostate cancer 18 months earlier, which later metastasised. Alvin Stardust Bernard William Jewry (27 September 1942 – 23 October 2014), known professionally as Shane Fenton and later as Alvin Stardust, was an English rock singer and stage actor. Performing first as Shane Fenton in the 1960s, Jewry had a moderately successful career in the pre-Beatles era, hitting the UK top 40 with four singles in 1961–62. However, he became better known
Stardust fire Memorial Park. The following evening, a candlelight vigil was held in the Stardust grounds. In December 2017 RTÉ did a one-hour episode in a TV series where Charlie Bird interviewed survivors of the Stardust fire and relatives of some of the 48 people who died in the Stardust fire. In June 2018 the Truth campaign was launched, the aim was to get as many signatures as possible on post cards, to appeal to the Attorney General of Ireland to finalize the Coroners reports into the deaths of the 48 young people killed in the Fire. Stardust fire The Stardust fire