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Subject: Re: Billy Fury again
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"Bob Gill"  wrote in message 
news:422BC57F.A023513C{at}erols.com...
>  A few months ago we were discussing Billy Fury, a pre-Beatles British
> rocker who I believe was from Liverpool. Specifically, the topic was one
> particular album by him called something like The Sound of Fury, which
> was considered in retrospect a classic of pre-Fab Four British pop. I
> recalled that Keith Richards mentioned the album, though not by name, in
> a Rolling Stone interview in 1971, but had to quote it from memory.
> However, just today I came across that very quote, so here it is
> verbatim, just for the record:
>  "... Billy Fury, who did one fantastic album that I've lost. He got it
> together once. One really good album. Songs he'd written, like people do
> now, he got some people he knew to play together and did it."
>  Since The Sound of Fury seems clearly to have been his best, I'm sure
> that's the one Keith is talking about here. Maybe one of these days I'll
> run across it in a used record store.

I suspect there are more gems in his catalog then just that one album. I've 
got a 45 that seems to be from later in his career (he's credited as "Bill 
Fury") where he does very credible versions of "Baby What You
Want Me To Do" 
and "It's Only Make Believe." 


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