Billy Fury

Billy Fury (real name Ronald Wycherley) became one of the best British rockers in the early 60s. He wrote his own songs and benefited from unusually skilful and sympathetic production. Maybe Tomorrow, Margot and Colette catapulted him to prominence in spring 1960.

A run of 26 Top 40 entries, including Halfway To Paradise, Jealousy and Like I've Never Been Gone kept him in the spotlight until 1966. 

During the seventies his career was dogged by ill-health, but after a cameo appearance in the David Essex film That'll Be The Day he returned to the fray with two  minor hits in 1982. In January of the following year he died of a heart attack, aged 41.