Alan Stuart Spaughton was born at 13 Lowfield Road in Kilburn in 1931. He shortened his name and performed as Alan Stuart. He played tenor sax with Tommy Steele’s Steelmen in the 1950s at the famous 2Is club in Soho and on film and TV shows. On some occasions Alan played sax while lying on his back. In 1957 they had hits with ‘Singing the Blues’, and performed at the Royal Variety Show for the Queen and Prince Philip. Alan stayed with Tommy and the Steelmen until 1959. Tommy Steele and the The Steelmen in 1957 (Getty Images). Tommy Steele and The Steelmen (1957), Alan is on the left In 1956 he married ‘Megs’ Margaret Leggett who had worked as a dancer with the Tiller Girls and an extra in numerous films. Then through a friend he had last seen while playing the back end of a pantomime horse, Alan met Stanley Kubrick who saw a resemblance to Peter Sellers and asked him to play his double in the film Dr Strangelove (1964). In a newspaper interview Alan said, ‘It was quite an undertaking b
There has been considerable publicity recently about Adele who is performing 10 shows in Munich in August 2024. Announcing the idea in January on Instagram, Adele said: ‘So a few months ago I got a call about a summer run of shows. I’ve been content as anything with my shows in London’s Hyde Park and my residency in Vegas, so I hadn’t had any other plans. … However, I was too curious to not follow up and indulge in this idea – a one-off, bespoke pop-up stadium designed around whatever show I want to put on? Why, Yes!! I haven’t played in Europe since 2016’. The £102M stadium has a 200 metre semi-circle stage with a 93 metre catwalk, so Adele can get close to the 75-80,000 fans in the audience. Behind her is a huge projection screen reported to have cost another £34M. Around the stadium is an ‘Adele World’ themed park. Photo of the stadium and theme park In the publicity for the show, Adele praised small venues which gave her a start early in her career, and she specifically mentioned