Halfway to Paradise - The Life of Billy Fury Stafford David Pevná vazba
"There's only ever been two English rock 'n' roll singers," Ian Dury said, "Johnny Rotten and Billy Fury." Butter adverts have tainted Johnny's status, but Billy's combination of beauty, sex,…
Specifikacia Halfway to Paradise - The Life of Billy Fury Stafford David Pevná vazba
"There's only ever been two English rock 'n' roll singers," Ian Dury said, "Johnny Rotten and Billy Fury." Butter adverts have tainted Johnny's status, but Billy's combination of beauty, sex, innocence, talent, charisma, and vulnerability has never been matched. The Sound of Fury, his first L.P., is still widely revered as the best British rock'n'roll record ever made. When he first appeared on TV, a generation of teenagers found true love, and his post-rock'n'roll heartbreak ballads were the essential soundtrack to adolescent angst. In 1973, he was brought out of semi-retirement to play Stormy Tempest--to some extent a parody of himself--in the movie That'll Be The Day. The magic rose above the parody. David and Caroline Stafford guide the reader through Billy's troubled childhood in Liverpool to his later years as a farming ornithologist and his comeback