Money-minded manager Larry Parnes, known by many as 'Parnes, Shillings and Pence', forced almost all his proteges to switch their names to something flashier. So Ron Wycherley became Billy Fury ...

Billy Fury was one of the most successful acts belonging to showbiz impresario Larry Parnes in the 1960s. Though his early success may have been eclipsed in later years by the Liverpool bands that ...

He will be remembered by music fans as the singer Johnny Gentle, one of Larry Parnes' stars of the late 50s, even having the Beatles as his support band on their first-ever tour!" Born on December ...