Alvin Stardust Alvin Stardust was a guest act on the "Morecambe & Wise Christmas Show" in 1981. The singles "I Feel Like Buddy Holly" (written and produced by Mike Batt) and "I Won't Run Away" reached number 7 in the UK Singles Chart in 1984. "So Near To Christmas" was a minor hit, No. 29, in the same year. He participated in "", the UK qualifying heat of the "Eurovision Song Contest", in 1985, with the song "The Clock on the Wall". He finished in third place behind Vikki and Kerri Wells. He was the subject of "This Is Your Life" in
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