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
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