[5] In October 1959, the UK music magazine, NME, commented that Fury's stage antics had been drawing much press criticism.

9 in the UK Singles Chart with his own composition "Colette",[4] followed by "That's Love" and his first album The Sound of Fury (1960),[8] which featured a young Joe Brown on lead guitar,[5] with backup vocals by the Four Jays.

After securing more hits and splitting from his band Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames,[8] Parnes held auditions in Liverpool for a new group.

[12] It was Decca's decision to mould Fury into a teen idol after his last self-penned song, "My Christmas Prayer", had failed to chart.

[5][13] It featured Helen Shapiro, Danny Williams, Shane Fenton and Bobby Vee, who appeared with the Vernons Girls.

(1963) was one of the first live albums in UK rock history, and featured renditions of his hits and cover versions of several R&B songs such as "Unchain My Heart".

In 1965 he appeared in the film I've Gotta Horse,[8] which also featured his backing group the Gamblers, the Bachelors, Amanda Barrie, Michael Medwin and Jon Pertwee.

[5] Having had more UK hits, such as "It's Only Make Believe" and "I Will" (written by Dick Glasser, not to be confused with the Paul McCartney song), both in 1964, and "In Thoughts of You" (1965), Fury began a lengthy absence from the charts in 1967, and underwent surgery for heart problems in 1972 and 1976 which led to his abandoning touring.

Starr was from the Dingle area of Liverpool, as was Fury, and had originally played drums for Rory Storm & the Hurricanes, whom the Stormy Tempest group were said to be modelled on.

He returned to touring later that year, and his next two singles, "Love or Money" and "Devil or Angel", barely dented the UK chart.

A few days before he died, Fury recorded a live performance for the Channel 4 television show Unforgettable, featuring six of his old hits;[14] however, at the request of his mother, only four of them were broadcast.

[16] After returning from a recording session in the early hours of 28 January 1983, Fury collapsed from a heart attack at his home in London.

[5] A week after his death, a funeral service was held at the St John's Wood church in London, for which his body was embalmed by Desmond Henley.

[18] Among the mourners were Larry Parnes, Marty Wilde, Jess Conrad, Eden Kane, Tony Read, Hal Carter and Mick Green, in addition to family members, friends and fans.

In 1999, a TV documentary about Fury called Halfway to Paradise was broadcast on the BBC channel, narrated by Ian Dury.

Between 1999 and 2000, the song "Wondrous Place", a favourite of Fury's (he re-recorded it at least three times during his career), later received wide airplay on British television when it was used as the theme for a Toyota Yaris car advertisement.

[20] Eight of Fury's EMI recordings remained unreleased on mainstream CD until June 2010, when they appeared on a 29-track issue, The Complete Parlophone Singles, released by Peaksoft (PEA009).

The singer's estate licensed the tracks to benefit his memorial fund, which finances equipment purchases for hospital heart units.