Paul Franklyn "Legs" Barrett (14 December 1940 – 20 January 2019)[1] was a UK agent and manager of 1950s style rock and roll artists, an author and previously a singer, songwriter and film actor.

Barrett is the discoverer, mentor and first manager of the singer now known as Shakin' Stevens during the 1960s and 1970s, but has also represented and promoted many more of the genre's greats during a long and varied career.

A supporter of American Rock and Roll DJ Alan Freed, Barrett also organised film nights at the Paget Rooms.

To cash in on the 1960s psychedelic movement in British music the Backbeats briefly shifted to performing as the 'flower power'-style "Earl Fuggle and the Electric Poets".

The idea developed into a performance group named "The 98% mother and Apple Pie West Coast Rock and Roll Band".

Barrett became embroiled in litigation for twenty years over unpaid royalties from several albums that had been written and produced under his guidance, but later rereleased to commercial success.

In 1993 after 16 years of negotiations Shakin' Stevens found himself in Cardiff High Court alongside record producer Dave Edmunds facing charges of non-payment of royalties from former Sunsets Rockin' Louie, Carl Petersen, Steve Percy and Paul Dolan.

The prosecution claimed that the former band members were due a share of royalties which Shaky and his management had received from the reissue of the album A Legend in the early 1980s.

[citation needed] Ever since first managing Shakin' Stevens in 1969, Barrett continued to be a professional agent, manager and promoter of 1950s style rock and roll artists including Charlie Gracie, Wee Willie Harris, Bill Haley's original Comets, the Jets, Matchbox, Crazy Cavan and the Rhythm Rockers, Linda Gail Lewis (sister of all time rock great Jerry Lee Lewis) and The Class of '58.

He has promoted and organised weekend long rock and roll themed events and major concerts all over the UK and on mainland Europe.

Barrett was also featured in the rock 'n' roll movie Blue Suede Shoes and appeared in the 1987 TV drama mini-series Sins that starred Joan Collins.