The Billy Fury Story Tickets

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Quick Facts About The Billy Fury Story

• Billy Fury was the stage name of Ronald Wycherley (1940–1983), a Liverpool-born British rock 'n' roll star who spent 332 weeks on the UK charts and became one of the era’s defining ballad/rock vocalists.
• The Billy Fury Story is a two-hour live show featuring Colin Gold as Fury, Fury’s Tornados, and large-screen footage to tell Fury’s life story, often including 29 60s hits like Halfway to Paradise, I Will, Jealousy and Last Night Was Made for Love; the show travels to UK theatres such as Sunderland Empire and Liverpool Empire (examples from 2019).
• Genre and style: Fury blended early rock & roll with dramatic pop ballads, known for big, orchestra-backed productions and soulful crooning; his signature ballads helped define his era’s crossover sound.
• Discography (albums, most recent first): The Last Concert (2003, Ozit); Memories (1983, K-Tel); The One and Only (1983, Polydor); The Golden Years (1979, K-Tel); We Want Billy! (1963, Decca); Billy (1963, Decca); Halfway to Paradise (1961, Ace of Clubs); The Sound of Fury (1960, Decca).
• Top singles/hits (most recent first by peak position): Last Night Was Made for Love (1962) UK No.4; I’d Never Find Another You (1961/62) UK No.5; Jealousy (1961) UK No.2; Halfway to Paradise (1961) UK No.3; A Thousand Stars (1960/61) UK No.14; Colette (1960) UK No.9; Wondrous Place (1960) UK No.25; Don't Worry (1961) UK No.40.
• Major awards/achievements: Fury earned a Silver Disc for 250,000 sales of Halfway to Paradise; he is commemorated with a blue heritage plaque in London (1 Cavendish Avenue, St. John's Wood, unveiled 2003) and a bronze statue (National Museums Liverpool, Royal Albert Dock, unveiled 2003).