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30/12/2005 Billy Fury - pick of 1950s Britpop
The best pop musician to hail from Liverpool? No contest: Billy Fury. Forget all the later Pretenders, Moptops included. Fury emerged from the ranks of dozens of tepid Elvis clones unleashed on an undeserving Brit public in the late 1950s. Unlike his poprock stablemates (all boasting elemental stagenames – Wilde, Eager, Power, to name but three), Fury was the real deal, a very fine interpreter of big ballads, as well as a strong writer in his own right. Billy Fury passes the acid test for singers in any genre - he sounds as if he means the words he's singing, and his performances are capable of arousing a range of emotions. If you haven’t yet heard the classic Billy Fury recordings - Halfway To Paradise, Jealousy, I Will, and I’d Never Find Another You - you’re in for a musical treat: they’re readily available on discount compilations. I envy you your voyage of discovery. Gerry Smith
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