Joe Fagin
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Joe Fagin (born January 1940 ) is a British pop singer.
Career
Fagin was the lead singer of the Merseybeat band The Strangers in the 1960s , which often played at the same concerts as the Beatles . Fagin only became known to a larger audience after he recorded the song That's Livin 'Alright in 1983. The song served as the theme music for the television series Goodbye, Pet ; Fagin's single climbed to number 3 in the British charts , not least because of the popularity of the series .
Fagin was in 1985 one of the singers of all-star band The Crowd (including with Paul McCartney , Gerry Marsden , Tony Christie , Motörhead and many others), which in the UK charts with the charity -Single You'll Never Walk Alone a number -one hit , the proceeds of which went to the victims of the fire disaster in the stadium of the English soccer club Bradford City .
In 1986 Fagin had another chart success - with two songs from the second season of Auf Wiedersehen, Pet : Back with the Boys Again and Get It Right .
An edited version of That's Livin 'Alright went on sale in 2006 as That's England Alright ; with the text Fagin supported the English national soccer team at the soccer world cup 2006 in Germany - but unofficially, the official song of the three lions team was World at Your Feet by the band Embrace .
Individual evidence
Web links
- Joe Fagin in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Fan site ( Engl. )
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| SURNAME | Fagin, Joe |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English pop singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 1940 |