Billy Fury

Billy Fury , of its true name Ronald Wycherley , (April 17th 1940 - London, January 28th 1983) was a singer and a British lyric writer of Rock of the Années 1950 at the years 1980, originating in Wavertree (Liverpool).

Biography

With Liverpool, he is noticed by the business manager Larry Parnes, which engages it on the field while giving him for new name of scene: Billy Fury.

Billy Fury records its first disc for Decca Records, entitled Maybe Tomorrow , in 1959. In March 1960, it is n° 9 with its own composition Collette , followed That' S coils . Its first album is entitled The Sound off Fury (1960). One hears there the young person Joe Brown with the guitar, with a vocal accompaniment of the Jays Furnace. This album is regarded as one of the major albums of the British rock'n'roll.

Billy Fury becomes popular with its group The Blue Fames , in which one finds Georgia Fame with the keyboards.

Billy Fury forsakes a little the Rock' N roll to concentrate on the traditional ballades, such as Halfway to Paradise (1961) and Jealousy (1961). Each one of them reaches the n° 2 in the English hit-parades).

In 1962, Billy Fury appears in its first film Play It Cool , realized on the model of those of Elvis Presley. One sees there also Helen Shapiro, Danny Rivers, Shane Fenton and Bobby Vee. The film popularizes the song Once Upon has Dream .

Billy Fury records excellent albums. Its We want Billy (1963), with The Tornados , is one of the first albums of the history of the British rock'n'roll with noticed interpretations the several traditional ones of the Rhythm and blues, in particular Unchain my Heart , of Ray Charles.

In 1965, it appears in the film I' ve Gotta Horse , with the group The Bachelors. Billy Fury still obtains some successes like It' S Only my Belive (1964), I Will (1964) and In Thoughts off You (1965). But it disappears from the hit-parades around 1967. He knows health issues and undergoes an surgical operation. There remains very popular all the same.

In 1973, it leaves its retirement to turn in the film That' L Be The Day . It holds the first role, based on the youth of Ringo Starr, the beater of the Beatles. Ringo Starr was same area of Liverpool as Billy Fury.

In 1981 and 1982, Billy Fury joined the discs Polydor and records The One and Only , which will be published in posthumous title. It passes on television in the emission Unforgettable , with six of its old tubes.

Its last public appearance takes place in December 1982 in Sunnyside, with Northampton.

He dies on January 28th, 1983 with London, in the apartment of his partner LISA Rosen.

Anecdotes

Billy Fury was also amateur of Ornithologie.

Discography

August 1st

Catalog of films

1962 : Play It Cool
1966: I've Gotta Horse
1973 : That' L Be The Day

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