BILLY FURY The Sound Of Fury Original 60's UK DECCA 10" LF 1329

You are bidding on a rare 60's album:

Billy Fury’s UK Decca 10” LP The Sound Of Fury - LF 1329

Matrix A: DRL-4799-2A / B: DRL-4800-2B (issued May 1963)

Condition: Vinyl is in terrific condition and plays faultlessly. There are no marks or scratches that are visible to the naked eye. The cover is bright, clean and still looks like new with only a very slight feathering to the opening side. This original cover for LF 1329 has the pianist's shadow on the right hand side. The 1980 re-issue (which I have also listed) does not. I would class this album, both vinyl and cover in mint condition.

Billy Fury, born Ronald William Wycherley (17 April 1940 - 28 January 1983), was an internationally successful British pop singer from the late 1950s to the early 1960s, and remained an active songwriter until the 1980s. Rheumatic fever which he first contracted as a child, damaged his heart and ultimately contributed to his death. An early British rock and roll (and film) star, he equalled The Beatles' record of 24 hits in the 1960s, and spent 332 weeks on the UK charts, without a chart-topping single or album. Allmusic journalist, Bruce Eder, stated, "His 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 Fury into a major rock and roll star in short order".Others have suggested that it was Fury's Elvis Presley-influenced, hip-swivelling, and at times highly suggestive stage act.

Wycherley was born at Smithdown Hospital (later Sefton General Hospital, now demolished), Smithdown Road, Liverpool. He commenced music lessons on the piano before he was a teenager, and was bought his first guitar by the age of 14. Wycherley fronted his own group in 1955, but simultaneously worked full-time on a tugboat and later as a stevedore. He entered and won a talent competition, and by 1958 had started composing his own songs. Wycherley first attended a gig in Birkenhead, run by impresario Larry Parnes, in the hope of interesting the established artiste, Marty Wilde, in some of the songs he had written. Instead, in an episode that has become pop music legend, Parnes pushed young Wycherley up on stage right away. He was such an immediate success that Parnes signed him, added him to the tour, and renamed him 'Billy Fury'. However, his early sexual and provocative stage performances received censure, and he was forced to tone them down. In October 1959, the UK music magazine, NME, commented that Fury's stage antics had been drawing much press criticism. He released his first hit single for Decca, "Maybe Tomorrow", in 1959. He made his television debut soon after, in a televised play Strictly For Sparrows, and he was soon a fixture on televised musical showcases, such as Oh Boy! By March 1960, he reached #9 in the UK Singles Chart with his own composition "Colette", followed by "That's Love" and his first album The Sound of Fury (1960), which featured a young Joe Brown on lead guitar, with backup vocals by The Four Jays.

After securing more hits and jettisoning his band The Blue Flames, which included the keyboardist Georgie Fame, auditions were held for a new group and held by Parnes in Liverpool. Among those who failed were The Beatles, who for the first time called themselves The Silver Beetles. They were offered the job for £20 a week on condition that they sacked their bassist Stuart Sutcliffe. John Lennon refused and the band left after Lennon had secured Fury's autograph. The Beatles were salvaged, however, by being sent on a tour of Scotland with Johnny Gentle and Duffy Power, who were a couple more of Parnes' acts.

Instead, The Tornados were recruited as his backing band, and from January 1962 to August 1963 they toured and recorded with Fury.

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CD: £1.00 (50p Each Additional CD)

7” :  £1.50 (50p Each Additional 7”)

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