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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2014 17:00:06 GMT
The white face was also adopted by Leo Sayer initially, for The Show Must Go On. He did this odd hanbd fidgetting thing too.
He was on TOTP for Moonlighting one time and I was amused that they'd given him a low stage to sing on ... he was barely above the audience.
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Post by markjhaley on Sept 22, 2014 17:06:20 GMT
Hal Carter was Alvin's agent when 'My Coo Ca Choo' took off.
The black shirt Alvin wore on TOTP's was borrowed from Hal's wife.
Hal also told me that Pete Shelley had already promoted the song on Lift Off.
Alvin has some great stories from his Shane Fenton days. He told me he was originally the Fentones roadie. The band had already been accepted for an audition by the BBC but the singer had unfortunately died. His parents asked him to deputise, they passed the audition and went on enjoy chart success from there. He even appeared in a film with Billy Fury.
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Post by John Green on Sept 22, 2014 17:11:17 GMT
The white face was also adopted by Leo Sayer initially, for The Show Must Go On. He did this odd hanbd fidgetting thing too. He was on TOTP for Moonlighting one time and I was amused that they'd given him a low stage to sing on ... he was barely above the audience. There's an odd Bowie whiteface mime thing too,I believe? |
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Post by Chris Barratt on Sept 22, 2014 17:46:01 GMT
...and around the same time (on the 500th TOTP, 4th October '73) they showed one of those odd Tom Taylor films featuring a guy with a white face (plus the token Aladdin Sane flash) to soundtrack The Laughing Gnome.
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Post by markyoung on Sept 22, 2014 20:56:36 GMT
My memory of the Shelley/Alvin appearance was that he looked rather odd, not like the clown persona Leo adopted early on. It's stuck in my mind for 40 years or so. I wish there were some photos around at least, to refresh my memory. There must be some somewhere...? Publicity photos? Set photos?
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Post by williammcgregor on Sept 23, 2014 14:29:13 GMT
article in the Scottish Daily Record dated 4/12/73 mentioned that a record company blurb at the time said Alvin was born on a Moonbeam not so long ago...and that he was'nt allowed to smile.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2014 18:54:58 GMT
He probably didn't feel like smiling with a blurb like that ...
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Post by Kevin Clark on Dec 20, 2014 17:32:38 GMT
I have this nagging memory of seeing Alvin on Lift Off where his face was black all down the one side and white down the other, and I think he kept facing in opposite directions as the song progressed. Am I correct?
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Post by markg on Dec 20, 2014 18:43:04 GMT
I remember the "Lift off" performance, I'm sure it was midweek not the weekend. I didn't realise that it was Pete Shelley not Bernard, I just thought they had had an image rethink.
Yes to the split colour thing, but he didn't turn from one to the other like Tommy Cooper used to.
Also, the black/white thing was Hugh Cornwell of the Stranglers but that was purely for a photo session publicising the "Black and White" album.
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Post by richardwoods on Dec 20, 2014 20:43:02 GMT
Probably got the idea from a certain episode of Star Trek  |
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Post by markjhaley on Apr 6, 2023 22:04:20 GMT
I understand Peter Shelley has recently passed away.
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Post by Jeff Leach on Apr 7, 2023 1:42:20 GMT
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Post by markjhaley on Apr 7, 2023 11:04:25 GMT
Here ya go  |
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Post by Frank Shailes on Apr 9, 2023 9:49:39 GMT
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Post by cameron seams on Apr 28, 2023 23:24:21 GMT
That's Bernard William Jewry, I'm pretty sure the only songs Peter Shelley sang was My Coo Ca Choo and its B-side Pull Together |
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