Peter Noone

Peter Blair Denis Bernard Noone born 5 November 1947 is an English singersongwriter guitarist pianist and actor He was the lead singer Herman in the 1960s pop group Hermans Hermits Noone was born in Davyhulme Lancashire England the second of five children the son of an accountant and attended English Martyrs Urmston Wellacre Primary School Flixton Stretford Grammar School and St Bedes College Manchester Noone played a number of acting roles on television including that of Stanley Fairclough in the soap opera Coronation Street Noone studied voice and drama at the Manchester School of Music where he won the Outstanding Young Musician Award Early in his career he used the stage name Peter Novac At 15 he became the lead singer spokesman and frontman of Hermans Hermits who were discovered by Harvey Lisberg As Herman the photogenic Noone appeared on the cover of many international publications including Time Magazines collage showing new faces in popular music The Hermits consisted of Noone Derek Lek Leckenby and Keith Hopwood guitars Karl Green bass and Barry Whitwam drums The bands hits included Im into Something Good Cant You Hear My Heartbeat Mrs Brown Youve Got a Lovely Daughter Silhouettes Wonderful World Im Henry the Eighth I Am in the US Theres a Kind of Hush Just a Little Bit Better A Must to Avoid Listen People The End of the World Dandy and No Milk Today Hermans Hermits sold more than 60 million records and had 14 gold singles and seven gold albums The Hermits were twice named in the US trade paper Cashbox as Entertainer of the Year As Herman Noone performed on hundreds of television programmes and appeared with the Ed Sullivan Jackie Gleason Dean Martin and Danny Kaye television programs He starred in ABCs musical version of The Canterville Ghost Hallmark Hall of Fames presentation of the classic Pinocchio in which he played the title role and three feature films for MGM Mrs Brown Youve Got A Lovely Daughter Hold On and When The Boys Meet The Girls Noone at a dairy in the Netherlands after his gold record for No Milk Today in 1966 They were the opening act of the 1970 Royal Variety Performance from the London Palladium performing a medley of their hits to date followed by their rendition of If I Were a Rich Man Where is Love and Old Henrys Fish and Chips They ended with their recent hit Theres a Kind of Hush Source Article Peter Noone from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30