A short-lived label started by Avenue Records (q.v.) in partnership with Billy Fury and his manager Hal Carter. 'Music Week' of the 8th of April 1972 carried the news that Avenue had signed a pressing and distribution deal with Pye and that they intended to launch their new label, Fury, on the 14th of April with its first single; retail price of the record would be 49p. In the event, the release appears to have been delayed for around four weeks. In the seven months or so of its existence Fury put out a handful of singles, none of which are commonly met with. Among them were a couple by Shane Fenton, the artist soon to be known as Alvin Stardust - one, 'Eastern Seaboard' b/w 'Blind Fool' was credited to Fenton himself (FY-305); the other, 'The Fly' b/w 'Perdona Mia' was attributed to Jo-Jo Ellis (FY-302). Avenue seems to have undergone some sort of a revamp in 1973, re-emerging as 'Avenue International', and Fury looks to have expired around that time; it did however make a kind of a comeback in the '80s. Billy Fury signed to Polydor and had three singles out on that label in 1981-82; a fourth single, issued in April 1983 after his death, had the Fury logo on the label in addition to the Polydor one. That single came in two different forms: 'Let Me Go, Lover' b/w 'Your Words' was withdrawn and reissued with a different 'A' side, 'Forget Him'. Both had the same catalogue number, POSP-558.
Copyright 2006 Robert Lyons.