The Sound Of Fury – BILLY FURY****

That’s Love/My Advice/Phone Call/You Don’t Know/Turn My Back On You/Don’t Say Its Over/Since You’ve Been Gone/Its You I Need/Alright Goodbye/Don’t Leave Me This Way

Uniquely for a British teen idol of the time Billy Fury composed all the tracks on his album debut The Sound Of Fury. It reflects his rock and roll origins before he turned his hand to the big ballads for which he is best known. (UK:18)

“All ten songs were written by Billy Fury and encompass rockabilly, blues and country influences. He was later to be steered towards the big ballad style but is here presented doing the sort of material he loved best.”

“Billy Fury's first long-player is quite simply an outstanding piece of British rock 'n' roll - even rockabilly - history. From imitations of slapped-bass style playing to raw and natural vocal sounds, this is a real treat for heart-felt music fans. Billy is remarkable and quite simply demonstrates his energy at all audible levels.”

“He wrote all the songs himself, itself a rarity in those days. He also performs rock, rockabilly, country rock and a little blues and rhythm and blues in the space of ten songs, giving you a perfect imitation of Sun Elvis. The whole show is a one-off, and no-one else could have pulled it off in such an original fashion."

“This is Billy Fury pure and raw at the beginning of his amazing career. To have written and recorded these beautiful rock 'n' roll classic songs so early on shows us just how very talented he was."

"Billy was the nearest version Great Britain had to America's Elvis Presley, and this LP shows all the talent and versatility of this great artist and performer. There's everything from rock to ballad and no Billy fan should be without this.”

“Billy Fury was, by far, a better authentic rocker than anyone else of his generation. And here is the definitive testimony. Heavy-lidded, with his trademark blond hair partially falling into his face, slouching and slightly threatening in front of the mike, Billy Fury was the real deal. His 1960 Sound Of Fury album was iconic and - more significantly - had a genuine feel about it, when compared to the many wooden British rock parodies that were around in those days.”