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
Stardust (band) "French Connections" (p. 275), his record company at the time (Sony) is suggested to have wanted Strange Attitude to be an album in Stardust-style. At the same place, Benjamin Diamond says that he found it "very difficult to go back to my own style of music after Stardust". At around the same time, Diamond was involved in the somewhat short-lived music group We In Music. However, in mid-2005, he released his second album, "Out of Myself", which was much more rock-oriented than his first album. "Let's Get High" and "There is a Girl" were released as singles. The song from