# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/billy-fury
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:40:25.933Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/billy-fury"
name: "Billy Fury"
slug: "billy-fury"
description: "Ronald Wycherley, known professionally as Billy Fury, was an English musician. An early star of rock and roll, he spent 332 weeks on the UK singles chart. His hit singles include \"Wondrous Place\", \"Halfway to Paradise\" and \"Jealousy\". Fury also maintained a film career, notably playing rock performers in Play It Cool in 1962 and That'll Be the Day in 1973."
tagline: "British rock and roll singer (1940–1983)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Billy_Fury_8_Allan_Warren.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1940-04-17"
deathDate: "1983-01-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.53
  momentum:             0
  historical:           16.537392
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0299233/"
    handle:    "nm0299233"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.billyfury.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "بيلى فورى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Billy Fury"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Fury"
    title: "Billy Fury"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Fury"
    title: "Billy Fury"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Fury"
    title: "Billy Fury"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Fury"
    title: "Billy Fury"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Fury"
    title: "Billy Fury"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Fury"
    title: "Billy Fury"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ビリー・フューリー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Fury"
    title: "Billy Fury"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Fury"
    title: "Billy Fury"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Fury"
    title: "Billy Fury"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Fury"
    title: "Billy Fury"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B8_%D0%A4%D1%8C%D1%8E%D1%80%D0%B8"
    title: "Билли Фьюри"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Fury"
    title: "Billy Fury"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Billy Fury"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/0554256d-9f58-48f7-8e17-a3768eb1437d"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q863103"
    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Billy Fury"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump