My Coo Ca Choo My Coo Ca Choo "My Coo Ca Choo" is the first successful release for Alvin Stardust, reaching number two in the UK Singles Chart in December 1973. The glam rock single fared even better in Australia, where it spent seven weeks at the top and was the best charting single in the country in 1974. The song was written, sung, and recorded by Peter Shelley, using the glam rock name Alvin Stardust. Although he had already appeared as the original Alvin Stardust on the "Lift Off" television programme, Shelley was surprised when the record went straight into the chart the
Alvin Baltrop Award for the Arts. Alvin Baltrop had few exhibits in his lifetime; his work gaining international fame only after his death. In 2008, University of Rochester art professor Douglas Crimp wrote an article about Alvin Baltrop for "ARTFORUM Magazine" that regenerated interest in Baltrop's work. In 2012, the artist's solo exhibition titled "Perspectives 179— Alvin Baltrop: Dreams into Glass", in the Contemporary Art Museum Houston included almost 100 gelatin silver prints that were shot between 1969 and 1980. The most captivating and intimate images in the show were shot while Baltrop was in the Navy. These are dated between 1969-1972