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Adam Faith

A working class lad who grew up in a council house in East Acton, London, Terry Nelhams changed his name to Adam Faith to become one of Britain's first bona fide pop stars in the pre-Beatles era of the early 1960s; later reinventing himself as a successful actor, journalist and financial specialist. Faith left school at 12, became a newspaper salesman and odd-job boy for a printing firm and then got a job as a film cutter. His entree into music began with a skiffle group called The Worried Men, who he sang with and managed. A residency at the 2is coffee bar in Soho led to an appe...