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Billy Fury
Liverpool, United Kingdom • 1940-04-17 – 1983-01-28
Billy Fury is credited on 270 releases across 74 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1959–2024 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
270
Pressings credited
74
Albums
8
Decades active
11
In collections
Biography
Ronald Wycherley (17 April 1940 – 28 January 1983), known professionally as Billy Fury, was an English musician. An early star of rock and roll, he spent 332 weeks on the UK singles chart. His hit singles include "Wondrous Place", "Halfway to Paradise" and "Jealousy". Fury also maintained a film career, notably playing rock performers in Play It Cool in 1962 and That'll Be the Day in 1973. AllMusic journalist Bruce Eder stated that Fury's "mix of rough-hewn good looks and unassuming masculinity, coupled with an underlying vulnerability, all presented with a good voice and some serious musical talent, helped turn [him] into a major rock and roll star in short order". Others have suggested that his rapid rise to prominence was due to his "Elvis-influenced hip swivelling and, at times, highly suggestive stage act".
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Credited work
270 releases · 74 albums · active 1959–2024
- Performance · 404
- Other credits · 39
- Production · 3
Studios: Cat Music (5) · The John Peel Show · Maison Rouge · Eden Studios
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Shakin' Stevens
- Saint Etienne
- Bob Butfoy
- Child (2)
- St Etienne
- The Smiths
- Freddie Starr
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