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It was heavy going for its time but it rang true with young ears.

It was about a guy making a girl pregnant and promising that he would stick with her.

I brought him a story song, ‘I Won’t Run Away’, from John David. “Alvin and Lisa Goddard lived very close to me and we would have dinner together and that paid dividends. The overdubbing was so bad that it was like sticking a stamp on a stamp: you could see the joins.” And what happened to Billy? “He grew up!”īy 1984, Alvin Stardust (22) was widening the scope of his singles, but having once been Shane Fenton, he had never completely left his rock’n’roll roots. Polydor took the tapes to France and they added backing vocalists. Pete Wingfield was on it and he told me that his neighbour played drums on the hit version by Millie. “We did the backing tracks Shaky-style in London including ‘My Boy Lollipop’. One of Stuart’s more unlikely commissions came in 1984 with a teenybop star from France, 11-year-old Billy (21). We made it contemporary and added another minute to it and darn, if it wasn’t a hit in Japan.” We remade the Louise Cordet song, ‘I’m Just A Baby’, which was a beautiful song that I’d always loved. “She was promoted like a hip hop cowgirl but Malcolm was so patriarchal and demonic that it was never going to work.