Over a decade before Milli Vanilli took the world by storm by lip-syncing to songs that were entirely written and sung by somebody else, there were acts such as this.

Alvin Stardust (no direct relation to Ziggy), with a look just like a real rocker called Vince Taylor (who did have a big influence on the character of Ziggy), was a stage name whose actual persona was 31 year-old Bernard William Jewry; except, on this initial track, at least on the ear, it isn’t actually who you think it is…

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