Halfway to Paradise: The Life of Billy Fury
- ISBN-10
- 1787590747
- ISBN-13
- 9781787590748
- Category
- Singers
- Pages
- 249
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018
- Publisher
- Music Sales Group
- Authors
- David Stafford, Caroline Stafford
Description
“Do you feel that the teenagers that you entertain,” he asks Duffy Power, “do you have a good effect on them or a bad effect?” “It all depends on the teenager,” says the eminently sensible Duffy. “But when they get hysterical and shout ...
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Other editions
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- 2008-10-01
- 240 pages
- Paperback
- Victoria & Albert Museum
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