Artist Info: Lance Fortune

Chris Morris, better known by the stage name Lance Fortune (b. 1940, Birkenhead) was an English pop singer.

Morris was classically trained on piano. He formed a rock and roll group called The Firecrests while a student at Birkenhead School, and served as lead vocalist; they recorded the songs "That'll Be the Day", "I Knew From the Start", and "Party", but were strictly a local attraction. He signed to Pye Records as a solo artist under the name Lance Fortune, and released four singles, two of which became hits in the UK Singles Chart in 1960. [read more...]