BILLY FURY: Before the Fame! ⭐️ The Liverpool Life of Ronnie Wycherley (Billy Fury Pt. 1)

Описание: Where was Billy Fury born? Where did Billy Fury live in Liverpool? We visit the Liverpool locations where Billy Fury grew up as Ronnie Wycherley.
Timestamp
0:00 Billy Fury statue
1:24 Where Billy Fury was born
2:44 Billy Fury's first home
5:20 Billy Fury lived on Haliburton Street
6:09 Billy Fury's primary school
9:22 Billy Fury's secondary school
11:08 Billy Fury's first guitar and job
11:45 Billy Fury worked on the tug boats
14:44 Billy Fury worked at Joshua Harris Department Store
16:14 Billy Fury recorded demo

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Billy Fury was born Ronald Wycherley on 17th April 1940 at Liverpool's Smithdown Infirmary and grew up in Toxteth, or The Dingle, in Liverpool. He went to the same primary school as Richard Starkey who would grow up to be The Beatles' Ringo Starr. Wellington Secondary Modern School was near the Wycherley home on 34 Haliburton Street. Billy Fury worked on the tugs and in Joshua Harris Department Store and while there visited 38 Kensington to make a demo record - the same place the Quarrymen would record their demo of That'll Be The Day and In Spite Of All The Danger a couple of months later.
Additional information gathered from (not sponsored or endorsed by) billyfury.com, managed by The Sound Of Fury Fan Club, 'Sound Of Fury' by David and Caroline Stafford, 'Wondrous Face' by Spencer Leigh, historic-liverpool.co.uk, swanseadocks.co.uk, and copious sleevenotes from various Billy Fury LPs and CDs. Also great documentary DVDs Halfway To Paradise and Billy Fury - His Wondrous Story. Additional Billy Fury pics mirrorpix.com

Billy Fury 1940 to' 83 by Tom Murphy. Billy Fury one of the most famous stars of British rock and roll was born Ronald Wycherley in Dingle, Liverpool on 17 April 1940. After leaving school he worked as a deckhand on the Mersey tug boats. However music was always his life. He taught himself to play the guitar and write songs After being signed by music agent larry Parnes at the age of 18 his name was changed to Billy Fury. Amongst his many hits were 'Halfway to Paradise' and 'Wondrous Place'. Billy's total record sales were on a par with acts such as Elvis, The Beatles and Cliff Richard. After suffering health problems Billy had a fatal heart attack in 1983 and died at the age of only 42. This statue made by Liverpool sculptor Tom Murphy in 2003 was very kindly donated to National Museums Liverpool by The Sound Of Fury Fan Club as a lasting tribute to Billy - one of Liverpool's greatest stars. You can see and hear more about Billy in the Museum of Liverpool's Wondrous Place gallery
So we've come here this morning to Asda superstore because on this site here was once the Smithdown Road Hospital. The original Victorian building here was opened in, was built in 1859 and it was the Toxteth Workhouse. It became a hospital in 1933 and changed its name to the Smithdown Road Infirmary. It was here on the 17th of April 1940 that parents Jean and Albert Wycherley welcomed the arrival of a son who they will call Ronald Wycherley
So there's a Tesco now where Haliburton Street once stood and there's an Asda where the hospital where Billy Fury was born,
Billy Fury. So that's the first Liverpool link of Billy Fury and The Beatles. Ronnie's other classmate was Billy Hatton who would later be in the group the Fourmost, who were also signed to the Beatles' manager Brian Epstein and they had a big hit with 'Hello Little Girl' a Lennon/McCartney song. He ended up going to Wellington Road Secondary Modern just around the corner from where the Wycherleys were living on Haliburton Street.
Ronnie left school at age 15
and his father got him a job working at Elison's Engineering.
It said Sefton Square but Sefton Square was a short little road where the Wycherleys
originally lived when young Ronnie was born. Curiously the first tugboat he worked on was called the Formby and while looking up things to do this little video I found the Formby actually ended up in my hometown, in the Swansea docks area.
And there's a few pictures there on swanseadocks.co.uk Ronnie Wycherley enjoyed his time on that first tug boat and the rest of the crew were musicians and they had their own little group that they called the Formby Sniffle Gloop. Margo King didn't reciprocate young Ronnie's affection but she was the subject of a song he wrote which became his second release in 1959 and reached the top 30, called 'Margo'. There's another another link that Billy Fury shares with The Beatles just down a bit here. There it is number 38 Kensington. the recordings here of the Quarryman's first disc. Percy Philips Recording Studios was located here...John, Paul and George plus John Lowe, piano, and Colin Hanton, drums, paid Mr Philips 17s 6d to record their first disc here on the 14th July 1958. The two numbers were 'That'll Be The Day' by Buddy Holly and 'In Spite Of All The Danger' by Paul McCartney and George Harrison. In 1960 they became The Beatles