A popular Billy Fury show is touring the country to mark the 30th anniversary of his death.

Halfway to Paradise -- the Billy Fury Story, coming to Leeds on Saturday, features music from Billy’s longest-serving backing group, Fury’s Tornadoes.

In the 1960s, Billy, dubbed the ‘British Elvis’, equalled The Beatles with 24 hits and a massive 332 weeks in the charts.

But it wasn’t until 1970 that he decided to hire a permanent backing group, made up of Nottingham-based musicians Charlie Elston, Chris Raynor, John Raynor and Graham Wyvill.

In 1996, the quartet recruited Colin Gold who, with his talent for Fury-like vocals, meant the show Halfway to Paradise could be created.

The musicians are still together today, and they’ll be at the City Varieties Music Hall in Leeds on Saturday.

Music continues at the venue on October 10 with the “smoky, bluesy, boozy drawl” of Mary Coughlan, celebrating a quarter century of performing.

Dean Friedman, whose hits include Arial, Lucky Stars, Lydia and Woman Of Mine, performs songs from his three-decade career on October 14. And soul king Geno Washington will perform pared-down street soul, R&B, house rocking blues, jump, boogie and rock ‘n’ roll on November 1.

Visit cityvarieties.co.uk or call 0113 2430808 for further information.