Halfway to Paradise: The Life of Billy Fury

Nonfiction, Entertainment, Music, Pop & Rock, Rock, Biography & Memoir, Entertainment & Performing Arts
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Author: David Stafford, Caroline Stafford ISBN: 9781787590748
Publisher: Music Sales Limited Publication: April 19, 2018
Imprint: Omnibus Press Language: English
Author: David Stafford, Caroline Stafford
ISBN: 9781787590748
Publisher: Music Sales Limited
Publication: April 19, 2018
Imprint: Omnibus Press
Language: English

“There’s only ever been two English rock’n’roll singers, Johnny Rotten and Billy Fury.” Ian Dury

If he’d merely stood like a statue on stage, he would have flooded theatres with hormonal longings, but he was incapable of standing still. He pulsed. He writhed. He invalidated the manufacturer’s guarantee on microphone stands. He provoked shock and awe.

From Billy’s troubled childhood in Liverpool, via gold and silver lamé, to his later years as a farming ornithologist and a comeback cut short by his premature death, David and Caroline Stafford’s sparkling biography brings to life this captivating performer. Billy knew everybody, auditioned The Beatles to be his backing band, met and out-handsomed Elvis, partied with Keith Moon and hosted acid parties. Yet, throughout the mayhem, he always remained true to himself: diffident and amused.

Halfway to Paradise tells the full story with the compassion and affection due to an artist who, decades after his death, still commands admiration and adoration: the life, the times, the fans, the Fury.

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“There’s only ever been two English rock’n’roll singers, Johnny Rotten and Billy Fury.” Ian Dury

If he’d merely stood like a statue on stage, he would have flooded theatres with hormonal longings, but he was incapable of standing still. He pulsed. He writhed. He invalidated the manufacturer’s guarantee on microphone stands. He provoked shock and awe.

From Billy’s troubled childhood in Liverpool, via gold and silver lamé, to his later years as a farming ornithologist and a comeback cut short by his premature death, David and Caroline Stafford’s sparkling biography brings to life this captivating performer. Billy knew everybody, auditioned The Beatles to be his backing band, met and out-handsomed Elvis, partied with Keith Moon and hosted acid parties. Yet, throughout the mayhem, he always remained true to himself: diffident and amused.

Halfway to Paradise tells the full story with the compassion and affection due to an artist who, decades after his death, still commands admiration and adoration: the life, the times, the fans, the Fury.

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