Stardust

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The year is 1963 and Jim Maclaine, the central character of That'll Be the Day, has grown his hair, grown up and become a singer with a rock and roll band called the Stray Cats.

Performing to bored audiences in seedy clubs, they live on dreams of making it big. A combination of luck, ruthlessness and a lot of hard hustling on the part of their manager Mike, Jim's old fair-ground friend, makes the Stray Cats rock and roll superstars. But at what price do success and fame come

Stardust is Ray Connolly's novelisation of his Writers' Guild of Great Britain award-winning screenplay for the 1974 film, starring David Essex, Adam Faith and Larry Hagman.

Author Bio

Born in 1940, Ray Connolly was brought up in Lancashire and attended the London School of Economics, where he read social anthropology. Beginning in 1967, he interviewed many Sixties pop stars for the London Evening Standard. He has also written for The Sunday Times, The Times, The Daily Telegraph, the Daily Mail and The Observer. Much of his journalism about the Beatles over 40 years has been compiled into his book The Ray Connolly Beatles Archive.

His non-fiction includes Being Elvis: A Lonely Life and Being John Lennon: A Restless Life.

His novels include Sunday Morning, Shadows on a Wall and Love out of Season, while for cinema he wrote the original screenplays That'll Be The Day and Stardust, and for television the series Lytton's Diary and Perfect Scoundrels.

He wrote and directed the TV documentary James Dean: The First American Teenager, as well as plays for radio and short stories. His novella Sorry Boys, You Failed the Audition imagines what would have happened if the Beatles hadn't never been signed to a record label.

He is married and lives in London.