VERY RARE 1959 BILLY FURY 78 MARGO / DON'T KNOCK UPON MY DOOR DECCA F11128 EX
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A VERY RARE BILLY FURY 78 IN EXCELLENT CONDITION
MARGO
b/w DON'T KNOCK UPON MY DOOR
Billy Fury was born Ronald William Wycherley, at Smithdown Hospital (later Sefton General Hospital, now demolished), Smithdown Road,Liverpool. At the age of 11, he started music lessons, taking up the piano, and he received his first guitar at the age of 14. By 1955, the skiffle boom had begun in the UK and Wycherley led his own local group, whilst earning money working on a tugboat and then as a stevedore. By 1958, he was appearing locally, had won a talent competition, and was writing his own songs. Wycherley first attended a gig in Birkenhead, run by impresario Larry Parnes, in the hope of interesting the established artiste, Marty Wilde, in some of the songs he had written. Instead, in an episode that has become pop music legend, Parnes pushed young Wycherley up on stage right away. He was such an immediate success that Parnes signed him, added him to the tour, and renamed him 'Billy Fury'.His early stage performances were suggestive by English standards, so that he was forced to restrain himself from his more overtly sexual moves when a curtain was brought down at one of his shows. In October 1959, the UK music magazine, NME, commented that Fury's stage antics had been drawing much press criticism.
He released his first hit single for Decca, "Maybe Tomorrow", in 1959. He made his television debut soon after, in a televised play Strictly For Sparrows, and he was soon a fixture on televised musical showcases, such as Oh Boy! By March 1960, he reached #9 in the UK Singles Chart with his own composition "Colette", followed by "That's Love" and his first album The Sound of Fury (1960), which featured a young Joe Brown on lead guitar.
"MARGO" was only Billy Fury's second chart entry and was only in the charts for one week reaching a lowly number 28! It is mega rare and this is actually the first copy that has gone through my hands!!
DISC DETAILS
UK DECCA F 11128 10" 78rpm shellac
A SIDE: MARGO
B SIDE: DON'T KNOCK ON MY DOOR
CONDITION:- EX / EX-
VERY RARE BILLY FURY 78
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FREE SECOND CLASS DELIVERY IS INCLUDED IN THE PRICE - BUT IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO COLLECT OR OPT FOR RECORDED DELIVERY etc PLEASE CALL ME ON 01223 872 937 OR SEND AN EMAIL TO greg.butler@ntlworld.com
THERE IS A £120 RESERVE SET ON THIS ITEM AND I WILL NOT BE TAKING "BUY IT NOW" OFFERS.
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