Adam Faith
Adam Faith, actually Terence Nelhams, ( born June 23, 1940 in Acton, London, † March 8, 2003 in Stoke -on-Trent, England ) was a British pop singer, actor and producer.
Life and work
1956 Adam was co-founder of Skifflegruppe The Worried Men In January 1958 his first single was released " ( Got A) Heartsick Feeling". More singles followed, but all were out of the charts. Adam Faith was to copy at that time one of the many British attempts to Elvis Presley. But actually was Adam Faith rather one of many Buddy Holly impersonators ( just listen to the certain " Schluckaufkickser " ) as Marty Wilde, John Leyton, Mike Berry or Eden Kane.
In 1959, he took a fresh start, and this time it should work. His first two chart entries were the same front-runner in the British charts.
After 1966 he withdrew from the active music business. Back in the early 1960s, he had incidentally also worked as an actor. In 1967 he joined the theater, 1971, he was the star of the television series Budgie. In 1972 he discovered the singer and songwriter Leo Sayer and became its manager. In April 1973, he produced Roger Daltrey 's first solo album, which included several compositions by Leo Sayer.
In 1974 he turned to David Essex movie Stardust. Faith played the role of a star manager in this movie. In 1976 he went back to the theater and produced in 1978 Lonnie Donegan album " Puttin 'On The Style ", which he attempted a comeback. 1979 Adam Faith embodied in the film Yesterday's Hero a football manager, and in 1980 he was, along with Roger Daltrey to see in the film McVicar, which was based on the true story of the " Fugitive King" John McVicar. In the film drama Jeanie's clique, also from 1980, he starred alongside Jodie Foster.
His big comeback succeeded with the hit TV series Love Hurts, in which he played the lead role opposite Zoë Wanamaker. Since 1991, Adam Faith was also known as a financial advisor, had his own company, sat in a board and wrote a weekly column with tips for money investors in the British newspaper The Mail On Sunday.
The TV series ended in 1994, despite high ratings. Other television projects were not successful, and be self- established channel for investor money went bankrupt shortly thereafter. He lost financially and professionally everything he had built in the late 1990s. Although he already had heart problems in the 1980s, his surprising death has often been attributed by a heart attack after a concert on the stresses in his life.
Hit- Singles
- What Do You Want? 1959 ( UK # 1 )
- Poor Me 1960 ( UK # 1 )
- Someone's Else's Baby 1960 ( UK number 2 )
- When Johnny Comes Marching Home / Mad You 1960 ( UK number 5 )
- How About That 1960 ( UK number 4 )
- Lonely Pup ( In a Christmas Shop ) 1960 (UK number 4 )
- Who Am I / This Is It! 1961 (UK number 5 )
- The Time Has Come 1961 (UK number 4 )
- As You Like It 1962 (UK number 5 )
- Do not That Beat All 1962 ( UK number 8 )
- The First Time 1963 ( UK number 5 )