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Halfway to Paradise: The Life of Billy Fury - cover

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Halfway to Paradise: The Life of Billy Fury

David Stafford, Caroline Stafford

Maison d'édition: Omnibus Press

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“There’s only ever been two English rock’n’roll singers, Johnny Rotten and Billy Fury.” – Ian Dury 
 
If he’d merely stood like a statue on stage, he would have flooded theatres with hormonal longings, but he was incapable of standing still. He pulsed. He writhed. He invalidated the manufacturer’s guarantee on microphone stands. He provoked shock and awe. 
 
From Billy’s troubled childhood in Liverpool, via gold and silver lamé, to his later years as a farming ornithologist and a comeback cut short by his premature death, David and Caroline Stafford’s sparkling biography brings to life this captivating performer. Billy knew everybody, auditioned The Beatles to be his backing band, met and out-handsomed 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 commands admiration and adoration: the life, the times, the fans, the Fury.
Disponible depuis: 19/04/2018.

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