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Terence (Terry) Nelhams-Wright, known as Adam Faith (23 June 1940, East Acton
Acton, London

Acton is a place in west London, England situated west of Charing Cross. At the time of the United Kingdom Census 2001, Acton, comprising the wards of East Acton, Acton Central, South Acton and Southfield, had a population of 53,689 people....
, London
London

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 — 8 March 2003, Stoke-on-Trent
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, Staffordshire
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) was an English
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 singer, actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
 and financial journalist
Journalist

A journalist is a person who practices journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events, trends, issues, and people while striving for viewpoints that aren't biased....
. Teen idol
Teen idol

?Teen idols refers to someone idolized by teens; a teen idol is often young but in many cases no longer teenaged. Often, a teen idol is an actor or a pop singer, but some sports figures have had an appeal to teenagers....
 turned top actor then financial wizard, Faith was one of the most charted
Record chart

Record chart are a method of ranking music according to popularity during a given period of time. Examples of music charts are the Hit parade, Hot 100 or Top 40....
 acts
Musician

A musician is a person who plays or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:* An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument....
 of the 1960s. He bcame the first UK
United Kingdom

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 artist
Musician

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 to lodge their initial seven hits
Hit single

A hit single is a Sound recording track or Single that has become very popular. Although it is sometimes used to describe any widely-played or big-selling song, the term "hit" is usually reserved for a single that has appeared in an official Record chart through repeated airplay and/or significant commercial sales....
 in the Top 5. He was also one of the first UK acts to record original song
Song

A song is a musical musical composition which contains vocal parts that are performed, 'sung,' and feature words , commonly accompanied by musical instruments ....
s regularly.

nce (Terry) Nelhams-Wright was born at 4 Churchfield Road, Acton
Acton, London

Acton is a place in west London, England situated west of Charing Cross. At the time of the United Kingdom Census 2001, Acton, comprising the wards of East Acton, Acton Central, South Acton and Southfield, had a population of 53,689 people....
, West London
West London

West London is the area of Greater London to the west of Central London. Although it is only ambiguously defined, it is one of the most economically active areas of London outside of the centre, containing significant amounts of office space along with London Heathrow Airport and many of its associated businesses....
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Terence (Terry) Nelhams-Wright, known as Adam Faith (23 June 1940, East Acton
Acton, London

Acton is a place in west London, England situated west of Charing Cross. At the time of the United Kingdom Census 2001, Acton, comprising the wards of East Acton, Acton Central, South Acton and Southfield, had a population of 53,689 people....
, London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
 — 8 March 2003, Stoke-on-Trent
Stoke-on-Trent

Stoke-on-Trent is a City status in the United Kingdom in Staffordshire, England, which forms a linear conurbation almost 12 miles long, with an area of ....
, Staffordshire
Staffordshire

Staffordshire is a landlocked Counties of England in the West Midlands region of England. The county town is Stafford. Part of the National Forest, England lies within its borders....
) was an English
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 singer, actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
 and financial journalist
Journalist

A journalist is a person who practices journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events, trends, issues, and people while striving for viewpoints that aren't biased....
. Teen idol
Teen idol

?Teen idols refers to someone idolized by teens; a teen idol is often young but in many cases no longer teenaged. Often, a teen idol is an actor or a pop singer, but some sports figures have had an appeal to teenagers....
 turned top actor then financial wizard, Faith was one of the most charted
Record chart

Record chart are a method of ranking music according to popularity during a given period of time. Examples of music charts are the Hit parade, Hot 100 or Top 40....
 acts
Musician

A musician is a person who plays or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:* An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument....
 of the 1960s. He bcame the first UK
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 artist
Musician

A musician is a person who plays or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:* An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument....
 to lodge their initial seven hits
Hit single

A hit single is a Sound recording track or Single that has become very popular. Although it is sometimes used to describe any widely-played or big-selling song, the term "hit" is usually reserved for a single that has appeared in an official Record chart through repeated airplay and/or significant commercial sales....
 in the Top 5. He was also one of the first UK acts to record original song
Song

A song is a musical musical composition which contains vocal parts that are performed, 'sung,' and feature words , commonly accompanied by musical instruments ....
s regularly.

Early life and education

Terence (Terry) Nelhams-Wright was born at 4 Churchfield Road, Acton
Acton, London

Acton is a place in west London, England situated west of Charing Cross. At the time of the United Kingdom Census 2001, Acton, comprising the wards of East Acton, Acton Central, South Acton and Southfield, had a population of 53,689 people....
, West London
West London

West London is the area of Greater London to the west of Central London. Although it is only ambiguously defined, it is one of the most economically active areas of London outside of the centre, containing significant amounts of office space along with London Heathrow Airport and many of its associated businesses....
. He was unaware his surname was Nelhams-Wright until he applied for a passport
Passport

A passport is a document, issued by a national government, which certifies, for the purpose of international travel, the identity and nationality of its holder....
 and obtained his birth certificate
Birth certificate

A birth certificate is a vital record that documents the birth of a child. Outside the United States, the term "birth certificate" refers to a certification of the original birth record....
. He was known as Terry Nelhams. The third in a family of five children, Nelhams grew up in a council house
Council house

The council house is a form of public housing in the United Kingdom. Council houses were built and operated by local Municipality to supply uncrowded, well built homes on secure tenancies at affordable rents to the local population....
 in a working class
Working class

Working class is a term used in academic sociology and in ordinary conversation to describe, depending on context and speaker, those employed in specific fields or types of work....
 area of London, where he attended John Perryn secondary modern school. He started work at 12, delivering and selling newspapers while still at school. His first full-time job was odd-job boy for a silk screen
Screen-printing

Screen printing 1. A printing technique that uses a woven mesh to support an ink blocking stencil. The attached stencil forms open areas of mesh that transfer ink as a sharp-edged image onto a Substrate ....
 printer
Printer (publisher)

A printer is a company that provides commercial printing services, often also offering typesetting and book-binding services. The term can also refer to people who operate printing presses, or who run printing companies....
.

Music career

Adam Faith became one of Britain's significant early pop stars
Celebrity

A celebrity is a widely-recognized or notable person who commands a high degree of public and media attention. The word stems from the Latin verb "celebrare" but one may not become a celebrity unless public and mass media interest is piqued....
. At the time, he was distinctive for his hiccupping glottal stops and exaggerated pronunciation. He did not write his own material, and much of his early success was through partnership with John Barry
John Barry (composer)

John Barry, Order of the British Empire is a renowned Golden Globe Award and five-time Academy Award-winning English film score composer. He is best known for composing 11 James Bond movies and was hugely influential on the 007 series' distinctive style....
 and songwriter Les Vandyke
Les Vandyke

Les Vandyke was a popular singer and later songwriter in the 1950s and 1960s. He was also known as Johnny Worth and John Worsley. Allmusic music journalism Bruce Eder states, "Vandyke is one of those rare talents in English people pop music whose songwriting success crossed several genres and eras, from the end of the 1950s righ...
, whose arrangement
Arrangement

In music, an arrangement is either a rewriting of a piece of existing music with additional new material or a fleshing-out of a compositional sketch, such as a lead sheet....
s were inspired by Don Costa
Don Costa

Don Costa was an United States pop music Arrangement and record producer best known for his work with Frank Sinatra....
's pizzicato
Pizzicato

Pizzicato is a playing technique that involves plucking the strings of a string instrument. The exact technique varies somewhat depending on the type of stringed instrument....
 arrangements for Buddy Holly
Buddy Holly

Charles Hardin Holley, known professionally as Buddy Holly was an American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll. Although his success lasted only a year and a half before his The Day the Music Died, Holly is described by critic Bruce Eder as "the single most influential creative force in early rock and roll." His works and...
's "It Doesn't Matter Anymore".

Faith began his musical career in 1957, while working as a film cutter in London in the hope of becoming an actor, singing with and managing
Management

Management in business and human organization activity is simply the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals. Management comprises planning, organizing, staffing, leadership or directing, and Control an organization or effort for the purpose of accomplishing a goal....
 a skiffle
Skiffle

Skiffle is a type of folk music with jazz, blues and country influences, usually using homemade or improvised instruments such as the washboard, tea chest bass, kazoo, cigar-box fiddle, musical saw, comb and paper, and so forth, as well as more conventional instruments such as Steel-string guitar and banjo....
 group, The Worried Men. The group played in Soho
Soho

Soho is an area in the centre of the West End of London of London, England, in the City of Westminster. It is an entertainment district which for much of the later part of the 20th century had a reputation for its sex shops as well as its night life and film industry....
 coffee bars after work, and became the resident band at The 2i's Coffee Bar, where they appeared on the BBC Television
BBC Television

BBC Television is a service of the BBC which began in 1932. The British Broadcasting Corporation has operated in the United Kingdom under the terms of a Royal Charter since 1927....
 live music programme Six-Five Special
Six-Five Special

The Six-Five Special was a British television programme launched in February 1957 when both television and rock and roll were in their infancy in Britain....
. The producer
Television producer

The primary role of a television producer is to control all aspects of production, ranging from show idea development and cast hiring to shoot supervision and fact-checking....
, Jack Good
Jack Good (producer)

Jack Good , is a icon Painting and former television producer and record producer....
, was impressed by the singer and arranged a solo
Solo (music)

In music, a solo is a piece or a section of a piece played or sung by a single performer. In practice this means a number of different things, depending on the type of music and the context....
 recording contract
Recording contract

A recording contract is a legal agreement between a record label and a recording artist , where the artist makes a record for the label to sell and promote....
 with HMV
HMV

His Master's Voice is a famous trademark in the music business, and for many years was the name of a large record label. The name was coined in 1899 as the title of a painting of the dog Nipper listening to a wind-up phonograph....
 under the name Adam Faith.

His debut record
Gramophone record

A gramophone record is an analog signal sound storage medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed modulated spiral groove usually starting near the periphery and ending near the centre of the disc....
 "(Got a) Heartsick Feeling" and "Brother Heartache and Sister Tears" in January 1958, failed to make the charts
Record chart

Record chart are a method of ranking music according to popularity during a given period of time. Examples of music charts are the Hit parade, Hot 100 or Top 40....
. Good gave him a part in the stage show of Six-Five Special, along with The John Barry Seven but the show folded after four performances. His second release later that year was a cover
Cover version

In popular music, a cover version, or simply cover, is a new rendition of a previously recorded, commercially released song.In its current use, it can sometimes have a pejorative meaning — implying that the original recording should be regarded as the definitive version, usually in the sense of an "authentic" rendition, and all...
 of Jerry Lee Lewis
Jerry Lee Lewis

Jerry Lee Lewis is an American rock and roll and country music singer, songwriter and pianist. An early pioneer of rock and roll music, Lewis was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986 and his pioneering contribution to the genre has been recognized by the Rockabilly Hall of Fame....
' "High School Confidential", backed with the Burt Bacharach
Burt Bacharach

Burt Bacharach is an United States pianist and composer. He is best known for his many pop hits from the early 1960s through the 1980s, with lyrics written by Hal David, many of which were produced for and recorded by Dionne Warwick....
 and Hal David
Hal David

Hal David is an United States lyricist and songwriter. His elder brother, Mack David, was also a lyricist and songwriter. David is best known for his words and music that were written along with musician, composer and singer, Burt Bacharach....
 penned
Songwriter

File:Beethoven.jpgA songwriter is someone who writes the lyrics, as well the musical composition or melody to songs. One who writes only lyrics is a lyricist, while one who writes only music is a composer....
 "Country Music Holiday", but this also failed.

Faith returned to work as a film cutter at National Studios at Elstree
Elstree

Elstree is a village in the Hertsmere borough of Hertfordshire on the A5 road , north of London. It forms part of the civil parish of Elstree and Borehamwood ....
 until March 1959, when Barry invited him to audition for a BBC TV rock and roll
Rock and roll

Rock and roll is a form of music that evolved in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Its roots lay mainly in rhythm and blues, Country music, folk music, gospel music, and jazz....
 show, Drumbeat. The producer, Stewart Morris, gave him a contract for three shows, extended to the full 22-week run. His contract with HMV had ended, and he sang one track, "I Vibrate", on a six-track EP released by the Fontana
Fontana Records

Fontana Records is a record label which was started in the 1950s as a subsidiary of the Dutch Philips Records; when Philips restructured its music operations it dropped Fontana in favor of Vertigo Records and Mercury Records....
 record label
Record label

In the music industry, a record label can be a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of recorded sound and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the Record producer, manufacturing, distribution , marketing and promotion, and enforcement of copyright protec...
. Barry's manager, Eve Taylor, got him a contract with Top Rank
Rank Organisation

The Rank Organisation was a United Kingdom entertainment company formed in 1937 and absorbed in 1996 by The Rank Group Plc....
, but his only record there, "Ah, Poor Little Baby" / "Runk Bunk" produced
Record producer

In the music industry, a record producer has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, Audio mixing and audio mastering processes....
 by Tony Hatch
Tony Hatch

Tony Hatch is an United Kingdom composer, songwriter, pianist, Arrangement, and Record producer.Early Life and Early CareerHe was born Anthony Peter Hatch in Pinner, North London....
, failed to chart due to a lack of publicity caused by a national printing strike.

Despite the failure, Faith was becoming popular through television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
 appearances. He became an actor by taking drama and elocution lessons, and appeared as a pop singer in the film
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
, Beat Girl
Beat Girl

Beat Girl is a 1960 in film United Kingdom film about late-fifties youth-rebellion. The title character is played by starlet Gillian Hills, who later went on to have numerous small roles in 1960s and 1970s films, such as Blowup and A Clockwork Orange ....
. The script called for Faith to sing a songs, and as Barry was arranging Faith's recordings
Sound recording and reproduction

Sound recording and reproduction is the electrical or mechanics inscription and re-creation of sound waves, such as spoken voice, singing, instrumental music, or sound effects....
 and live Drumbeat material, the film company asked him to write the score
Film score

A film score is a broad term referring to the music in a film, which is generally categorically separated from songs used within a film. The term Soundtrack is often confused with film score, though a soundtrack may also include songs featured in the film as well as previously released music by other artists, while the score does...
. This was the beginning of Barry's career in film music.

Faith's success on Drumbeat enabled another recording contract with Parlophone
Parlophone

Parlophone is a record label, founded in Germany in 1896 in music by the Carl Lindstr?m Company. The ? trademark is a German L, for Lindstr?m....
. His next record in 1959, "What Do You Want?", written by Les Vandyke
Les Vandyke

Les Vandyke was a popular singer and later songwriter in the 1950s and 1960s. He was also known as Johnny Worth and John Worsley. Allmusic music journalism Bruce Eder states, "Vandyke is one of those rare talents in English people pop music whose songwriting success crossed several genres and eras, from the end of the 1950s righ...
 and produced by Barry and John Burgess, received good reviews in The New Musical Express and other papers, as well as being voted a hit on Juke Box Jury
Juke Box Jury

Juke Box Jury was a pop themed panel show, originally produced by BBC television from 1959-1967, the first edition having been broadcast on 1 June 1959....
. This became his first number one
List of number-one singles from the 1950s (UK)

This is a list of the number one singles on the UK Singles Chart, during the 1950s. The source for this decade is the New Musical Express chart....
 hit in the UK Singles Chart
UK Singles Chart

The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official UK Charts Company on behalf of the British record industry. The chart week runs from Sunday to Saturday, with the chart being printed in Music Week magazine , ChartsPlus , and published online on various sites ....
, and his pronunciation of the word 'baby' as 'bay-beh' became a catch phrase
Catch phrase

A catch phrase is a phrase or expression recognized by its repeated utterance. Such memetic phrases often originate in popular culture and in the arts, and typically spread through a variety of mass media , as well as word of mouth....
.

"What Do You Want?" was the first number one hit for Parlophone, Faith the only pop act on the label.

With songs like "Poor Me
Poor Me (song)

"Poor Me" is a single released by the English people singer, Adam Faith. On 10 March 1960, it reached number one in the UK Singles Chart, staying there for two weeks....
" (another chart topper),"Someone Else's Baby" (a UK
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 #2) and "Don't That Beat All", he established himself as a rival to Cliff Richard
Cliff Richard

Sir Cliff Richard Order of the British Empire is an England singer-songwriter, actor and entrepreneur.With his backing group The Shadows, Richard dominated the British popular music scene in the late 1950s and early 1960s, before and during The Beatles' first year in the charts....
 in British popular music
Popular music

Popular music is music that is accessible to the mainstream and disseminated by one or more of the mass media. It belongs to any of a number of musical genres, and stands in contrast to classical music, which historically was the music of the elite and upper strata of society, and traditional music which was disseminated orally....
.

A UK variety tour was followed by a 12-week season at Blackpool
Blackpool

Blackpool is a seaside resort in Lancashire, England. Lying along the coast of the Irish Sea, it has a population of 142,900, making it the North West England#Important cities and towns settlement in North West England behind Manchester, Liverpool and Warrington....
 Hippodrome and an appearance on the Royal Variety Show.

His next release was a double A-side
A-side and B-side

A-side and B-side originally referred to the two sides of 7 inch vinyl records on which single s were released beginning in the 1950s. The terms have come to refer to the types of song conventionally placed on each side of the record, with the A-side being the featured song , while the B-side, or flipside, is a secondary song that ofte...
 single
Single (music)

In the record industry, a single is a song usually used from a current or upcoming album to promote the album. Singles are distributed through a number of ways; originally, they were packaged as "single" records with one or two other songs and sold before the release of the album....
, "Made You" / "When Johnny Comes Marching Home", Both made the Top Ten, despite a BBC ban for "Made You" for 'a lewd and salacious lyric'. His 1960 novelty record "Lonely Pup (In a Christmas Shop"), to coincide with his Christmas pantomime, gained a silver disc
Music recording sales certification

Music recording sales certification is a system of certifying that a music Sound recording has shipped a certain number of copies.Almost all countries follow variations of the RIAA certification categories, which are named after the precious materials gold, platinum and diamond ....
.

His debut album
Album

An album or record album is a collection of related Sound recording and reproduction or music tracks distributed to the public. The most common way is through commercial distribution, although smaller artists will often distribute directly to the public by selling their albums at live concerts or on their websites....
 Adam was on 4 November 1960 to critical acclaim for the inventiveness of Barry's arrangements and Faith's own performances. The material ranged from standards such as "Summertime
Summertime (song)

"Summertime" is the name of an aria composed by George Gershwin for the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess. The lyrics are by DuBose Heyward and Dorothy Heyward, and Ira Gershwin....
", "Hit The Road To Dreamland" and "Singin' In The Rain
Singin' in the Rain (song)

"Singin' in the Rain" is a song with lyrics by Arthur Freed and music by Nacio Herb Brown, published in 1929 in music. However, it is unclear exactly when the song was written with some claiming that the song was performed as early as 1927....
" to more contemporary songs, such as Doc Pomus
Doc Pomus

Doc Pomus was a twentieth century United States blues singer and songwriter. He is best known as the lyricist of many rock and roll hit record....
 and Mort Shuman
Mort Shuman

Mort Shuman was an United States singer, pianist and songwriter, best known as co-writer of many 1960s rock and roll hit record, including "Viva Las Vegas "....
's "I'm A Man", Johnny Worth
Les Vandyke

Les Vandyke was a popular singer and later songwriter in the 1950s and 1960s. He was also known as Johnny Worth and John Worsley. Allmusic music journalism Bruce Eder states, "Vandyke is one of those rare talents in English people pop music whose songwriting success crossed several genres and eras, from the end of the 1950s righ...
's "Fare Thee Well My Pretty Maid", and Howard Guyton's "Wonderful Time".

Still 20 and living with his parents, he bought a house in Hampton Court for £6000, where he moved with his family from their house in Acton. In December 1960 he became the first pop artist on the TV
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
 interview series Face to Face
Face to Face (TV series)

Face To Face was a 35 episode BBC television series broadcast between 1959 and 1962. The insightful and often probing style of the interviewer, former politician John Freeman , distinguished it from other programmes of its genre at the time....
 with John Freeman
John Freeman (politician)

Major John Freeman, Order of the British Empire is a retired United Kingdom politician, diplomat and broadcaster. He was the Labour Party Member of Parliament for Watford from 1945 to 1955....
.

Faith made six further albums and 35 singles, with a total of 24 chart entries. In the early 1960s, Faith's backing group was The Roulettes
The Roulettes

The Roulettes were a United Kingdom rock and roll band . They started out as the group playing behind Adam Faith, who enjoyed a run of record chart hit single in the 1960s....
.

Film and television career

Faith's twee pop became less popular in the mid-1960s in competition from The Beatles
The Beatles

The Beatles were a rock music and pop music band from Liverpool, England that formed in 1960. During their career, the group primarily consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr ....
. After a final single in 1968 he parted company with EMI and concentrated on acting. While a musician
Musician

A musician is a person who plays or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:* An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument....
 he had appeared in films such as Beat Girl
Beat Girl

Beat Girl is a 1960 in film United Kingdom film about late-fifties youth-rebellion. The title character is played by starlet Gillian Hills, who later went on to have numerous small roles in 1960s and 1970s films, such as Blowup and A Clockwork Orange ....
 (1961), Never Let Go, and television dramas such as the Rediffusion/ITV
ITV

ITV is a public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom television network of British television broadcasters, set up under the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC....
 series, No Hiding Place
No Hiding Place

No Hiding Place was a United Kingdom television series produced at Wembley_Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16th September 1959 and 22nd June 1967....
 but now he concentrated on repertory theatre. After a number of small parts, he was given a more substantial role in Night Must Fall
Night Must Fall

Night Must Fall is a play, a psychological thriller, by Emlyn Williams, first performed in 1935....
, playing opposite Dame Sybil Thorndike. In autumn 1969 he took the lead in a touring production of Billy Liar
Billy Liar

Billy Liar is a novel by Keith Waterhouse that was later adapted into a Play , film, musical theater and TV series.The semi-comical story is about Billy Fisher, a working-class 19-year-old living with his parents in the fictional town of Stradhoughton in Yorkshire....
.

In the 1970s, he went into music management, managing Leo Sayer
Leo Sayer

Leo Sayer is an England-born Australian people singer-songwriter and musician whose singing career has spanned four decades. A distinctive singer-songwriter, Sayer was a top single and album act on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean in the 1970s....
 among others.

He starred as the eponymous hero in the 1970s television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
 series Budgie
Budgie (TV series)

Budgie was a popular United Kingdom television series starring former popstar Adam Faith which was produced by ITV company London Weekend Television and broadcast on the ITV network between 1971 and 1972....
 (LWT
London Weekend Television

London Weekend Television was the ITV network franchise holder for London and the Home Counties at weekends. It broadcast from Fridays at 5:15pm to Monday mornings at 5:59am....
/ITV
ITV

ITV is a public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom television network of British television broadcasters, set up under the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC....
), about an ex-convict, but his career declined after a motorcycle accident in which he almost lost a leg
Leg

Leg may refer to the following places in Poland:*A former name for the town of Elk *Leg, Lower Silesian Voivodeship *Leg, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship ...
. He restarted with a role as the manipulative manager of rock
Rock music

Rock music is a loosely defined genre of popular music that entered the mainstream in the mid 1950's. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rhythm and blues, country music and other influences....
 star David Essex
David Essex

David Essex Order of the British Empire is an England actor and singer, who has enjoyed a varied show business career....
, in Stardust. He was nominated for a BAFTA award. In 1980 he starred with Roger Daltrey
Roger Daltrey

Roger Harry Daltrey Order of the British Empire is an England singer-songwriter and actor, best known as the founder and lead singer of English rock music band The Who....
 in McVicar
McVicar (film)

McVicar is a dramatic British film issued in 1980 in film by The Who Films, Ltd., starring Roger Daltrey of The Who in the title role of John McVicar....
 and appeared with Jodie Foster
Jodie Foster

Alicia Christian Foster, better known as Jodie Foster , is a two-time Academy Award, BAFTA, and Golden Globe-award winning and Emmy-nominated United States actor, Film director and film producer....
 in Foxes.

Played the role of James Crane in the 1985 TV Movie Minder on the Orient Express - part of the Minder
Minder (TV series)

Minder is a British comedy-drama about the London Organized crime. Initially produced by Verity Lambert, it was made by Euston Films, a subsidiary of Thames Television and shown on ITV....
 franchise.

From 1992-1994, Faith appeared in another TV series, Love Hurts
Love Hurts (UK TV series)

Love Hurts is a British television series running from 1992 - 1994 on the BBC scripted by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran and starring Adam Faith, Zo? Wanamaker and Jane Lapotaire as Frank Carver, Tessa Piggott and Diane Warburg respectively....
 starring with Zoe Wanamaker
Zoe Wanamaker

Zo? Wanamaker Order of the British Empire is an award-winning England-United States actor best known for her role as Susan Harper in the United Kingdom television series My Family....
, and in 2002 he appeared in the BBC series, The House That Jack Built. In 2003, Adam appeared in an episode of Murder in Mind
Murder in Mind

Murder in Mind was a United Kingdom television thriller drama anthology series of self-contained stories with a murderous theme.It was created by Anthony Horowitz, and broadcast on BBC One from 2001 to 2003....
.

Later years


He married
Marriage

Marriage is a social, spirituality, or law union of individuals. This union may also be called matrimony, while the ceremony that marks its beginning is usually called a wedding and the married status created is sometimes called wedlock....
 Jackie Irving, in 1967 and they had one daughter
Daughter

A daughter is a female reproduction; a girl, woman, or female animal in relation to her parents. The male equivalent is a son. Analogously the name is used on several areas to show relations between groups or elements....
 Katya Faith who became a television producer. In 1986, he was hired as a financial journalist
Journalism

Journalism is the craft of conveying news, descriptive material and editorial via a widening spectrum of Media . These include newspapers, magazines, radio and television, the internet and, more recently, the cellphone....
, by the Daily Mail
Daily Mail

The Daily Mail is a United Kingdom newspaper, currently published in a tabloid format. First published in 1896 by Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, it is the United Kingdom's second biggest-selling daily newspaper after The Sun ....
 and its sister paper The Mail on Sunday
The Mail on Sunday

The Mail on Sunday is a United Kingdom newspaper, currently published in a tabloid newspaper format. First published in 1982 by Vere Harmsworth, 3rd Viscount Rothermere, it is Britain's second biggest-selling Sunday newspaper after The News of the World....
.

He had had heart problems since 1986 when he had open heart surgery
Cardiac surgery

Cardiac surgery is surgery on the heart and/or great vessels performed by a cardiac surgeon. Frequently, it is done to treat complications of ischemic heart disease , correct congenital heart disease, or treat valvular heart disease created by various causes including endocarditis....
.

In the 1980s, Faith became a financial investments advisor. He had a financial involvement with television's 'Money Channel'. But the channel proved unsuccessful and closed in 2001. Faith was declared bankrupt
Bankruptcy

Bankruptcy is a legally declared inability or impairment of ability of an individual or organization to pay its creditors. Creditors may file a bankruptcy petition against a debtor in an effort to recoup a portion of what they are owed or initiate a restructuring....
 owing a reported £32 million. Adam also advised and invested monies for Michael Winner via Sir Nicholas Goodison and also with Roger Levitt's financial group. However both these investments lost money.

He became ill after his stage performance in the touring production of Love And Marriage at Stoke-on-Trent
Stoke-on-Trent

Stoke-on-Trent is a City status in the United Kingdom in Staffordshire, England, which forms a linear conurbation almost 12 miles long, with an area of ....
 on the Friday evening, and died at North Staffordshire
North Staffordshire

North Staffordshire describes an area of Staffordshire, in the West Midlands region of England. It contains the Newcastle-under-Lyme , Staffordshire Moorlands and the Stoke-on-Trent....
 Hospital
Hospital

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 of a heart attack
Myocardial infarction

Myocardial infarction , commonly known as a heart attack, occurs when the Blood flow to part of the heart is interrupted. This is most commonly due to occlusion of a coronary artery following the rupture of a Vulnerable plaque, which is an unstable collection of lipids and white blood cells in the wall of an artery....
 early on Saturday 8 March 2003.

British tabloid
Tabloid

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 newspapers reported his last words as "Channel Five is all shit, isn't it? Christ, the crap they put on there. It's a waste of space". Although it is not certain these were his words, it has become an urban myth.

Discography


Singles

Year Title UK Singles Chart
UK Singles Chart

The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official UK Charts Company on behalf of the British record industry. The chart week runs from Sunday to Saturday, with the chart being printed in Music Week magazine , ChartsPlus , and published online on various sites ....
1958 "(Got A) Heartsick Feeling" -
1958 "Country Music Holiday" -
1959 "Ah, Poor Little Baby!" -
1959 "What Do You Want?
What Do You Want?

"What Do You Want?" was a 1959 in music song which became a number one hit in the United Kingdom for Adam Faith. It was written by Les Vandyke and produced by John Burgess and arranged by John Barry ....
" 		#1
1960 "Poor Me
Poor Me (song)

"Poor Me" is a single released by the English people singer, Adam Faith. On 10 March 1960, it reached number one in the UK Singles Chart, staying there for two weeks....
" 		#1
1960 "Someone Else's Baby" #2
1960 "When Johnny Comes Marching Home"/
"Made You" 		#5
1960 "How About That!" #4
1960 Lonely Pup (In a Christmas Shop)" #4
1961 "Who Am I!"/
"This is It!" 		#5
1961 "Easy Going Me" #12
1961 "Don't You Know It?" #12
1961 "The Time Has Come" #4
1962 "Lonesome" #12
1962 "As You Like It" #5
1962 "Don't That Beat All" #8
1962 "Baby Take a Bow" #22
1963 "What Now" #31
1963 "Walkin' Tall" #23
1963 "The First Time" #5
1963 "We Are in Love" #11
1964 "If He Tells You" #25
1964 "I Love Being in Love with You" #33
1964 "Only One Such as You" -
1964 "A Message to Martha (Kentucky Bluebird)" #12
1965 "Stop Feeling Sorry For Yourself" #23
1965 "Hand Me Down Things" -
1965 "Someone's Taken Maria Away" #34
1965 "I Don't Need that Kind of Lovin'" -
1966 "Idle Gossip" -
1966 "To Make a Big Man Cry" -
1966 "Cheryl's Goin' Home" #46
1967 "What More Can Anyone Do?" -
1967 "Cowman, Milk Your Cow" -
1967 "To Hell With Love" -
1968 "You Make My Life Worth While" -
1974 "I Survive" -
1974 "Maybe" -
1974 "I Believe in Love" -
1975 "Strung Out Again"/
"Steppin' Stone" 		-
1976 "Vindictive Attack" -
1978 "What Do You Want?
What Do You Want?

"What Do You Want?" was a 1959 in music song which became a number one hit in the United Kingdom for Adam Faith. It was written by Les Vandyke and produced by John Burgess and arranged by John Barry ....
"/
"Poor Me
Poor Me (song)

"Poor Me" is a single released by the English people singer, Adam Faith. On 10 March 1960, it reached number one in the UK Singles Chart, staying there for two weeks....
" 		-
1983 "What Do You Want?
What Do You Want?

"What Do You Want?" was a 1959 in music song which became a number one hit in the United Kingdom for Adam Faith. It was written by Les Vandyke and produced by John Burgess and arranged by John Barry ....
"/
"How About That!" 		-
1993 "Stuck in the Middle
Stuck In The Middle

"Stuck In The Middle" is Clea 's second single single. It was released in the UK on February 16th, 2004 and giving them their second Top 30, charting at #23....
" 		-


Albums

  • Adam (Parlophone
    Parlophone

    Parlophone is a record label, founded in Germany in 1896 in music by the Carl Lindstr?m Company. The ? trademark is a German L, for Lindstr?m....
    ) (1960) - UK
    UK Albums Chart

    The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled by The Official UK Charts Company and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website ; the full Top 200 is published exclusively in ChartsPlus....
     Number 6
  • Beat Girl
    Beat Girl

    Beat Girl is a 1960 in film United Kingdom film about late-fifties youth-rebellion. The title character is played by starlet Gillian Hills, who later went on to have numerous small roles in 1960s and 1970s films, such as Blowup and A Clockwork Orange ....
     (film
    Film

    Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
     soundtrack
    Soundtrack

    The term soundtrack refers to three related concepts: recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film or TV show; and the physical area of a film that contains the synchronized recorded so...
    ) (Columbia
    Columbia Records

    Columbia Records is an American record label founded in 1888.Columbia is the oldest surviving brand name in pre-recorded sound, being the first record company to produce pre-recorded records as opposed to blank cylinders....
    ) (1961) - UK Number 11
  • Adam Faith (Parlophone) (1962) - UK Number 20
  • From Adam with Love
  • For You - Love Adam
  • On the Move
  • Faith Alive (Parlophone) (1965) - UK Number 19
  • I Survived
  • Midnight Postcards (PolyGram
    PolyGram

    PolyGram was the name from 1972 in music of the major label recording company started by Philips as a holding company for its music interests in 1945....
    ) (1993) - UK Number 43


Compilations

  • The Best Of Adam Faith (Starline) (1966)
  • The Best Of Adam Faith (MFP
    Music for Pleasure (record label)

    Music for Pleasure was a United Kingdom record label that issued budget-priced albums of pop music and European classical music music. Albums were subsequently released under the MFP label in Australia and South Africa....
    ) (1971)
  • 24 Golden Greats (Warwick) (1981) - UK
    UK Albums Chart

    The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled by The Official UK Charts Company and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website ; the full Top 200 is published exclusively in ChartsPlus....
     Number 61
  • Not Just A Memory (Amy Records
    Amy Records

    Amy Records was a record label formed in 1960 as a subsidiary of Bell Records . Artists who had success on Amy included Al Brown's Tunetoppers with "The Madison" ,a dance tune in 1960, Joey Powers with "Midnight Mary" , Del Shannon's 1964 recordings of "Handy Man" and "Keep Searchin'" ....
    ) (1983)
  • The Best Of Adam Faith (re-issue) (MFP) (1985)
  • The Best Of Adam Faith (second re-issue) (MFP) (1989)
  • The Singles Collection (Greatest Hits) (1990)
  • The Best Of EMI Years (1994)
  • The Very Best Of Adam Faith (MFP/EMI
    EMI

    The EMI Group is a United Kingdom music company comprising the major record label EMI Music ? which operates several labels and is based in Kensington in London, England, United Kingdom ? and EMI Music Publishing, based in New York City....
    ) (1997)
  • Greatest Hits (EMI Gold) (1998)
  • The Very Best Of Adam Faith (EMI) (2005)
  • All The Hits (EMI Gold) (2009)


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