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Bobby Vee
Bobby Vee is an American pop music singer was born as Robert Thomas Velline on 30th April 1943. Vee has had 38 Hot 100 chart hits, out of which 10 were in the Top 20. Vee’s album, “Take Good Care of My Baby” released in 1961 reached No.1 in the US and No.3 in the UK and he recorded a number of international hits, “Devil or Angel”, “Rubber Ball”, “More Than I Can Say”, “Run To Him”, “The Night Has a Thousand Eyes” and “Come Back When You Grow Up”.
As Bobby was trying to make it, he put his pen to paper to write his first single 'Suzie Baby' which nodded towards Buddy Holly's 'Peggie Sue'. Which is sad since Buddy Holly passed away a short time after the song was released. Bobby Vee was a close friend and he went on to dedicate his album after the accident to his name. Bobby stated at the time, 'For some time now, I have wanted to make an album in tribute to Buddy, but I wasn't sure it was the proper thing to do. However, during the past year, I have received many requests to do such an album. These requests came not only from my fans and from DJs, but also from Buddy's loyal following---still a large group of devoted fans. It.... gave me the confidence to do the album. From "Suzie Baby" to this present album, I have made many records, but I have never forgotten Buddy Holly and his influence on my singing style and my career.'
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Vee was a pioneer of the music video genre and appeared in several motion pictures. He was inducted into the North Dakota Roughrider Award in 1999. His first UK hit came from a cover of Adam Faith’s “What Do You Want?”.
The Very Best Of Bobby Vee was released in 2008.
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ADAM FAITH
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Terry Nelhams aka Adam Faith was one of the most successful charts acts of the 1960’s. Adam Faith was known for being a teeny bop idol and later on, a Bafta nominated actor, TV regular and in his later years a financial journalist for the Daily mail/Mail On Sunday. Faith had top 10 hits from 1959-1963.
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Faith left school in Shepherds Bush in the summer of 1955, harbouring hopes and aspirations of a career in music or film. By 1956 after various runner jobs in film studios, Faith landed himself a job as an assistant film editor. This job would occupy Faith right up until 1958, when he was offered a record deal with EMI after landing a spot on BBC pop show 6-5 special, the early singles recorded with EMI received little or no chart success.
In late 1959, Faith met singer/songwriter Johnny Worth, (otherwise known as Les Vandyke) Worth penned the song “What Do You Want “ for Adam Faith, and in November 1959 the song went straight to No. 1 on the UK singles chart, Adam Faith had arrived.
Faith followed the success of “What Do You Want” up with another No.1, the Johnny Worth penned “Poor Me”, Worth would write over twenty songs for faith from 1960-1961. Faith peppered the UK top 40 for the next 5 years with varying success. Even though Faith continued to record all the way up until 1993, his days of heady chart success were over by the late sixties. He remained in the music industry after discovering and managing Leo Sayer and producing Roger Daltrey’s major label debut.
Later on in Adam Faith’s career he was a reasonably successful actor, which peaked with a Bafta nomination for his role in the movie “Stardust” alongside David Essex. In the mid Eighties he was employed as a financial journalist for the Daily Mail/Mail on Sunday, he reprised this role well into the nineties. He continued to act on TV, Film and Stage until his death in 2004. Faith will be remembered as the all around entertainer who wasn’t afraid to reinvent himself whether it was as the front man or behind the scenes, Faith was always willing to take a risk to follow his dreams.
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Chris Andrews
Chris Andrews was born on 15th October 1942 in Romford, United Kingdom. Chris started his career in music in his early teens, forming his group and playing Soho venues such as The 2i's Coffee Bar. In 1959 Chris had his television debut on the ‘Oh, Boy!’ show, to which he returned and performed a cover of Cliff Richard's "Move It".
As a songwriter Chris wrote "The First Time" for Adam Faith which reached number 5 in 1963. He followed this up writing a string of hits for Sandie Shaw including "Girl Don't Come" (Number 3, 1964/65), "I'll Stop at Nothing" ( Number 4, 1965), "Message Understood" (Number 6, 1965) and "Long Live Love" which made it to Number 1 in the UK in 1965. Chris had his own chart success in 1965 reaching number 3 in the UK and Number 1 in Ireland and Germany with "Yesterday Man". "To Whom it Concerns" made number 13 in the UK and the instrumental section of To Whom It Concerns was used by The Late, Late Show for a number of years.
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By 1966 his chart appearances began to dwindle in the UK but he continued his success in Europe, particularly in Germany, often writing songs in foreign languages. His own songs were seen as early examples of reggae influencing white pop music.
Chris is still active in the music industry today and works in both the UK and mainland Europe.
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