He was best known for the 1984 chart hit "Breakin' Away / That's Livin' Alright", and for singing a version of "As Time Goes By" for the 1990s BBC sitcom of the same name starring Judi Dench and Geoffrey Palmer.

In the early 1960s, Fagin was a guitarist with a group called the Strangers, who played gigs at The Cavern Club in Liverpool, sometimes with the Beatles, and at the Star-Club in Hamburg.

[3][4] "Get It Right" and "Back with the Boys Again", the two songs for the second series of Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, were also released as a single, reaching number 53 in 1986.

[1] Fagin released a greatest hits album in 1996,[5] which included a cover of the Beatles song "She's Leaving Home".

[6] Fagin was born in Kirkdale, Liverpool in 1940, and trained as an electrician before beginning his music career.