"Star for a Week (Dino)" is a pop-rock song by English singer-songwriter Steve Harley, released as a promotional single in 1993 from his third solo studio album, Yes You Can.

"Star for a Week" was first performed live at Harley's sold out Hammersmith Odeon concert in October 1979.

[5][6] The song's lyrics are based on the true story of Orestes Babouris, a 17-year-old of Brandon, Suffolk, who was also known as Dino.

They booked themselves into the Golden Galleon Motel at Oulton Broad to lie low, and fired at two policemen when they arrived to question the youths on 16 August.

Dino's mother, Mrs. Pearl Babouris, pleaded to her son on television and radio to hand himself in, and the "most wanted teenager in Britain" continued to evade capture until 23 August when he was stopped at a roadblock at Thrapston and taken to Huntingdon Police Station.

[7][8][9] Intrigued by the story, Harley wrote "Star for a Week" using many lines that he heard through TV news coverage of the two outlaws, and quotes from Dino's mother in particular.

The line featuring "the man with no name" referenced the Clint Eastwood character of the same name, which a victimised postmistress had used to describe Dino.

About nine or ten years ago, there's this boy in Norfolk called Dino, who was running around with a shotgun, holding up some post offices.

[18][19] In 1989, the band's Brighton concert included the song and was released on the VHS The Come Back, All is Forgiven Tour: Live.

"[26] In a review of Yes You Can, Dave Thompson of AllMusic said of the song and its B-Side: "It's a sad state of affairs, but the best of Yes You Can, Steve Harley's first new album in a decade, was never going to make it onto a studio recording.

There, both "Star for a Week (Dino)" and "The Lighthouse" emerge with vibrant electricity, as emotionally charged as any old favorites, as deliciously delivered as they deserved.

In the studio, however, though the quality remains, the emotion pales, and Harley's energies - hitherto rejuvenated after so long in abeyance - flag accordingly.

At least half of them seem to know all the words to everything, not just the familiar old stuff like "Judy Teen" and "Mr. Soft", but even the comparatively recent "The Last Time I Saw You" and "Star for a Week (Dino)".