BILLY FURY Pt.1 - Ronnie Wycherley in Liverpool. The Liverpool locations of a young Billy Fury
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- 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
Great video, saw Billy Fury down London shortly before he died. The Elvis presley fan had a convention down there and Billy came on to talk about meeting Elvis.
Thanks pal 🙂. That's great you at least 'saw him' on stage. Another one missed for me unfortunately. Never mind, we have the music. 👍👍
Beautiful tribute and very interesting story, thank you 👍
Thank you Cees M, I appreciate it 👍👍
Thank you so much for this. So interesting to see Billy's roots and origins. Looking forward to part 2.
Thanks for watching and commenting Stephen. Much appreciated! 👍
My darling mum loved Billy 😍 we have visited his grave many times also we go to Liverpool and take a rose 🌹 to his statue, he will never be forgotten, my parents are Welsh and I'm a born and bread South londoner 💞
Thank you for watching and commenting Maggie! I hope you enjoyed it. 😊👍
Yes it was lovely, my parents have now both gone to their heavenly home and hopefully they have had the pleasure to meet Billy on the other side of life 😊 Ps it was lovely to hear your Welsh accent fond memories of mum and dad 💕
Wow Just come across this gem. Thank you so much for putting it all together.
Thank you so much - it is appreciated👍! I love seeking out these places and have Johnny Cash and many Elvis vids on the channel in a similar vein 🙂
Yes it is a gem ♡ thank you so much for the upload. A really enjoyable watch!
@@jowaldock5045 thank you vey much for that Jo! I'm glad you enjoyed it. Don't forget to take a look at pts 2 & 3 😉
Love your vids. I laughed so hard at your off to Sainsbury's for his school. The Liverpudlians will enjoy that one too lol.
Thank you very much for that Jackie - I appreciate you watching! 😊👍
Superb documentary of Billy's early years, very informative.
Hi John. Glad you thought so! It's appreciated that you've taken the time to have a look 👍
Thank you very much for your wonderful work on Billy Fury he will never be forgotten wonderful music fantastic singer long live Billy Fury music 🎶 Thank you Sir .❤
Hi Carole Anne! I appreciate that very much - thanks for watching and your comments 🙂👍
@@OceanHops thank you for all your hard work we need more about 60 70 stars ⭐ there will never be another one like Billy Fury long live his music 🎶 thank you again xx
🌟a Trailblazer for all the pop musicians today 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟Billy 🌟Fury a real Superstar⭐📀⭐📀⭐📀⭐📀⭐📀⭐📀⭐📀⭐📀⭐📀⭐📀
Yes, a Brit original rock n roll star with the talent to go beyond and become a diverse artist. Thanks for watching Pat👍
Great video. Impressive the amount of famous and talented people are from Liverpool ?
Hi Bessie. Isn't it? Must be something in the water there 🙂. Thanks for watching 👍
Yup, I have ancestors who lived on Haliburton Street in the 1920's. We've been to Tesco car park to find the exact location. Never seen a picture of the street unfortunately. In around 1961 my parents knew Billy's mum, I'm not sure how, I think it was to do with my grandfather's work on the tug boats? Anyway, perhaps when Billy moved out his mum gave my dad his alarm clock. My dad used it for a while until eventually it broke. My brother, then aged about 4, painted it then my mum threw it in the bin.... and that was the end of that! 👍
Thanks for the story - we never realise what we've got until we've chucked it 😄. Yes, there's old maps of toxteth area you can find online, and Halliburton was just about opposite where I was standing just a little off-cemtre to the junction opposite. Thanks for watching 👍
Does anyone know which hospital in North Wales Billy attempted to abscond from?
Hi Rachel. I don't know specifically myself- only it was 'convalescence' in the Prestatyn area. Thanks for watching 👍