Larry Parnes
Lionel Bart
...Parnes see singer Reg Smith, who was then performing at the Condor Club. Although Parnes missed his performance, he went round to Smith's house and signed him up on the basis of Bart's...
Duffy Power
...and has performed and recorded intermittently since then. He was discovered in 1959 by impresario Larry Parnes, singing at a talent show with his group Duffy and the Dreamers. He was...
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Stuart Sutcliffe
...throughout the audition (because, as Williams believed, Sutcliffe couldn't play very well) Parnes said that he would only employ the group if they got rid of Sutcliffe. Larry has said...
Billy Fury
...started composing 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...
Lance Fortune
..., two of which became hits in the UK Singles Chart in 1960. While signed to Pye, he was managed by Larry Parnes, who had come up with the name Lance Fortune. In April 1960, Fortune and...
C'mon everybody: How Eddie Cochran and Gene Vincent changed British music for ever
...been a film about Cochran and Vincent, especially when the story is so colourful. In 1956, the impresario Larry Parnes had catapulted Tommy Steele to stardom as Britain's answer to Elvis...
Dickie Pride
...heard by Russ Conway who was so impressed, he recommended him to Larry Parnes who signed him on the spot. Parnes immediately gave him his stage name, Dickie Pride. His first concert as...
Vince Eager
...Eager' (born Roy Taylor, 4 June 1940, Grantham, Lincolnshire) is a British pop singer. The impresario, Larry Parnes, took him into his stable of performers, giving him one of Parnes'...
Larry Parnes
...Vauxhall , Liverpool) Joe Brown was, not surprisingly, the only one to resist Parnes' name-changing; he intended to call him 'Elmer Twitch'. Songwriters like Lionel Bart provided...
Joe Brown (singer)
...& Albums, as a "chirpy cockney, Brown was one of the original artists managed by the early rock impresario, Larry Parnes". Brown's family moved to London when he was two and ran the...
Georgie Fame
...Blackwell. At sixteen years of age, he went to London and entered into a management agreement with Larry Parnes, who gave artists new names such as Marty Wilde and Billy Fury. Fame was...
Marty Wilde
...under the name Reg Patterson at London's Condor Club in 1957 when he was spotted by impresario Larry Parnes. Parnes gave his protegees stage names like Billy Fury, Duffy Power and Dickie...
