1959: LARRY PARNES and his Rock N Roll "GOLDEN BOYS" | Panorama | Classic BBC Music | BBC Archive

[@w1o2l3f4i5e]

1:20 so that is Johnny Gentle! best remembered for having briefly toured Scotland with the Silver Beetles (later known as the Beatles) as his backing group in 1960.

[@4seeableTV]

All of those young men would later claim that Parnes manipulated them and took the majority of the money they generated. Updates on those shown: 1:01 Billy Fury / Died at age 42 1:11 Vince Eager / Still singing today 1:17 Johnny Gentle / Still around. Stopped singing in the mid 60's 1:23 Duffy Power / Died at age 72 1:37 Manager Larry Parnes / Died at age 59

[@koezkoez1939]

Billy Fury has left a real legacy though. When ABC were the biggest band in the country in 1983, they paid constant homage to Fury. Thanks for your list, though.

[@shingitai5882]

The actor Peter Sellars did a comic parody of this interview on one of his albums.

[@king77703]

Funny as 👍

[@goodiesguy]

I can't watch this without thinking of that brilliant Peter Sellers pisstake on 'Songs For Swingin' Sellers'.

[@tonysuffolk]

"How many times must I tell you? The holes point away from you." "So much to learn, so little time."

[@tonysuffolk]

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[@thecaveofthedead]

Really talented kids. Unfortunately this wave was small and short-lived. I'm sure Larry got rich off them though.

[@Tim.Weaver]

The press nicknamed him "Mr Parnes, Shillings and Pence"

[@k_DAN]

I think this guy was doing a lot of feeling too.

[@brianmmacu]

Rather weird and unpleasant for them to be referred to as “ his boys”, implying, even if accurate, that they were disposable assets, not people

[@thecaveofthedead]

By all accounts that's exactly what he was doing.

[@brianmmacu]

Just been reading about Parnes. He was slime Vince Eager began to wonder why he had never received any record royalties. "You're not entitled to any," Larry Parnes told him. "But it says in my contract that I am," Eager protested. "It also says I have power of attorney over you, and I've decided you're not getting any," Parnes replied.

[@dog61]

The whole thing is weird. All living under the same roof, a whole list of rules and requirements, etc.

[@jamielindsay6765]

Ick,homophobia and anti semitic

[@koezkoez1939]

​@dog61 the world stayed like this, in places, until the 90's. Hell, look at Britney Spears. If you can bear it, watch the Badfinger story. Multi-million sellers, and were living in one house in Golders Green. If anyone can think of a more tragic tale, let me know. Jonathan King was another paedophile 'entrepreneur', but it was by no means always the case.

[@tomservo56954]

"Harry Charms" in ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS

[@stevenmorris8325]

Billy Fury was the greatest ever UK rocker but managed awfully by Parnes

[@rjjcms1]

He became a big star in the 60s,but died tragically young.

[@colindayo]

And in less than a decade we had Sgt. Pepper…

[@king77703]

Not wrote by The Beatles 👍

[@Caskchap]

He was very mean (tight) and became known as Parnes shilling and pence. It became an obsession and in his later years he used to boast how he could live on two frozen fish dinners a week. Very sad for such a brilliant albeit controlling man. Terry Dene once asked why he didn’t get the royalties his contract said he should get and Parnes replied it also says I have power of attorney and I have decided you don’t get any.

[@Kreln1221]

*In less than two decades later, we had Johnny Rotten and Sid Vicious in the Sex Pistols.*

[@brucenicoll4373]

And what a great time that was

[@jasonayres]

In the 1940s, the English were fighting against the swastika. In the 1970s, Sid Vicious was wearing a swastika t shirt. Not my cup of tea, I suppose.

[@brucenicoll4373]

@@jasonayres no mine either but parts of that era did wake some people up

[@jazztheglass6139]

@@jasonayres The Clash adorned themselves with the Soviet star, crazy times

[@jasonayres]

@brucenicoll4373 Yes. Fair point. Some parts of it. Johnny Rotten, not unlike Johnny Gentle and 🫢 Johnny English..at least they announced themselves.