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Halfway to Paradise - The Life of Billy Fury (Hardcover)
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Halfway to Paradise - The Life of Billy Fury (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R515
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"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. He
never knew how not to be magnificent. David and Caroline Stafford
guide the reader through Billy's troubled childhood in Liverpool,
via gold and silver lame, to his later years as a farming
ornithologist, and his comeback cut short by his premature death.
Billy Fury was a key figure on that watershed between post-war
privations and sixties excess. He knew everybody, auditioned the
Beatles to be his backing band, met and outhandsomed 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 has
the power to command admiration and adoration.
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