N°47 ADAM FAITH - WHAT DO YOU WANT

The same first name and the almost the same title is enough to link it to this blog and to the previous song. Not that I ever heared of the man but he's a singer so hey ....

Adam faith started out as a singer but then, as most of 'em do nowadays, switched to acting. Unlike most singer-actors nowadays who stick to both jobs, Adam educated himself to be a financial advisor in his later career. A teen idol in the sixties Faith began his career in 1957 with a skiffle group called The Worried Men. Adam got noticed by a producer who arranged him a solo contract under the name of Adam Faith. Both his first two singles failed to make the charts.

He returned to his old job but then got the opportunity to play in a BBC televised rock show called Drumbeat. This performance made him a very popular televeision performer on different shows. This despite he never scored a single hit in his early career. His Drumbeat performances gave him the opportunity to release some more singles and the one I posted gave him his first number one hit. At the same time the first number one hit for his current lable.  More songs would follow and in Great Britain he'd become Cliff Richards biggest rival in the UK charts.

In 1960 his first album was released called Adam which made the uk number 6. In between 1960 and 1965 six more albums would follow. A 1975 release of  I Survived, another album never was a succes although he scored over 20 chart entries back in the sixties.

In the seventies he'd become Leo Sayers manager and an actor in different series such as Budgie untill in 1986 he'd got hired as a financial journalist by The Daily Mail. ever since he'd work as a financial advisor. Adam Faith died of a heart attack back in 2003.