Billy Fury

Billy Fury fascinates me as the Liverpool kid who got to rock and roll before the city's most famous export did. Spending 332 weeks on the UK singles chart is no fluke, and tracks like "Wondrous Place" still carry a smouldering, almost cinematic cool that a lot of his peers never managed. I respect that he didn't stop at the microphone either, stepping convincingly into film roles as rock performers. Dying at just 42 feels like a song cut off mid-verse. To me he's one of those artists whose brevity sharpens the legend rather than dimming it, and he deserves to be remembered far beyond Britain.

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Name (English)

Billy Fury

Name (Japanese)

ビリー・フューリー

Reading

びりー・ふゅーりー

Born

April 17, 1940 – January 28, 1983

Origin

Liverpool, United Kingdom

Occupation

singer / singer-songwriter / rock singer / musician

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Dragon

• Official sitehttps://www.billyfury.com/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy%20Fury
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%93%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q863103

Tags

• singer
• singer-songwriter
• rock singer

Last updated

September 18, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.