The Sound of Fury showed how working class kids could just as easily be exploited. It was a bio-drama telling the story of one Ronald Wycherley, whose talent for music helped him become a major star of the early 60s under the name of Billy Fury. As portrayed by Anton Lesser, he was a sickly young man with a particular talent, and a dedication to his work that enabled him to resist the advances of his homosexual manager Larry Parnes (Peter Whitman). Nonetheless, he was finally forced to succumb to the logic of the market; rather than singing rock ‘n roll music that spoke of his own experiences as a working-class lad growing up in Liverpool, he was persuaded to move into a more middle-of-the-road style (for example, in his biggest hit “Halfway to Paradise”), which basically signalled the end of his career. By the mid-70s he was reduced to singing in retro-gigs with other has-beens from the previous decade such as Helen Shapiro.