Those damn Glam Rockers!

O yes, those Glam Rock fiends are at the root of the latest political intrigues in the so-called 'cash for peerages' spinerama.

An extract from the biography on Lord Levy on the BBC website:

But Michael Abraham Levy, now 61, has never forgotten his working-class Jewish roots or lifelong commitment to the Labour Party. Educated at Fleetwood primary school, where he was head boy, and Hackney Downs grammar school, he went on to become an accountant.

But he made his money as an impresario in the 1960s and 1970s, managing singers including Alvin Stardust and Chris Rea, and as the founder of Magnet Records who gave the public Bad Manners. Having sold the company to Warner Bros for £10m, he met Tony Blair at an Israeli diplomatic dinner in 1994, the year he became Labour leader. The two soon became tennis partners, and Mr Blair made him a life peer - Baron Levy of Mill Hill - after Labour's landslide election victory in 1997.

Alvin, how could you? I feel so let down by you. I've given money to one of Tony's cronies? I'm shocked, shocked I say.

At least none of my wonga has gone anywhere near Chris Rea or Bad Manners!