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ADAM FAITH Archive News & Features
20 March 2003
Adam's Last Journey
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The funeral of entertainer Adam Faith took place on Wednesday afternoon (19th March), with a host of celebrities paying their respects. Faith, 62, a singer and actor since the 1960s, died two weeks ago of a heart attack just after appearing in a play in Stoke-on-Trent. The chapel at Kent and Sussex Crematorium in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, saw more than 100 friends and family, including his wife Jackie and daughter Katya, gather for the entertainer's cremation. Unusually, a wicker coffin, covered in flowers, was used for the service. Adam's agent, Alan Field, explained the unusual choice of casket. He said "Jackie wanted something different and a bit special. She heard about a firm in Somerset which made them, and she thought they were beautiful". Celebrities including actress Zoe Wanamaker, Michael Parkinson, Leo Sayer, Sandie Shaw, and Roger Daltrey were present, as well as celebrity publicist Max Clifford and Leeds United manager Terry Venables. After the ceremony Michael Parkinson said: "It was not jolly, that would be the wrong thing to say, but we had a few laughs. It was a service of remembrance. As much as anything else he was a singular man as sad as his death is when you think of him you cannot help smiling. He was one of my best friends. I loved him very much." Daltrey said: "I will miss him. He was a one off. He was a good mate." Terry Venables - who wrote the 1970s TV drama Hazell - told reporters: "I've known him so long. We go back many years. It's such a shock. I spoke to him a few days before and he was fine, his usual self. I felt he was wonderful, great company, always pleased to see anybody and a supportive friend." A small group of Faith's fans also went to the funeral. Carole Wood, 54, from Ashford in Kent, said: "I was a fan of his from the very beginning and followed his career. I went to see him when I was about 12. It's the end of an era."
Faith was renowned as one of the UK's most successful pop stars of the early 1960s. Alongside Cliff Richard and Billy Fury he dominated the pre-Beatles pop scene in Britain. In later years he won respect as an actor on stage and TV. He starred in three series of the BBC show Love Hurts alongside Zoe Wanamaker in the early 1990s. Faith had been touring with the production of Love and Marriage when he died. Details from BBC News
web site. © BBC, MMIII 17 March 2003 Adam's funeral will be taking place at the Kent & Sussex Crematorium, Tunbridge Wells, on Wednesday 19th March 2003. 16 March 2003 Adam Faith was amongst the first 100 names chosen by the public to be inducted onto the Brighton Walk of Fame. As President & Founder of the Walk of Fame I would like to make it known that Adams fans and admirers are welcome to show their respect and condolences by placing flowers in the area directly to the front of the Walk of Fame Cafe where his name and plaque are displayed. The cafe and walk of fame is located at Brighton Marina Brighton Sussex. David Courtney 11 March 2003 The BBC 2 radio show "Sounds of the Sixties", has announced that they will be making a tribute to Adam during the next programme on Saturday 15th March. The programme is broadcast between 8am and 10 am. 8 March 2003
Adam Faith dies
Actor and pop star Adam Faith has died from a heart attack at the age of 62. The 60s entertainer died early on Saturday after falling ill the previous evening. Faith had been staying at a hotel in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, where he was starring in the Regent Theatre's Love and Marriage. He was taken ill at the hotel after Friday night's performance, an ambulance was called and he was taken to hospital. Doctors fought in vain to resuscitate the actor who had a history of heart trouble, his agent Alan Field said. Faith, who lived in Tudeley in Kent, leaves a wife, Jackie, and daughter Katya, aged 32. Mr Field said: "He had a major heart attack and died around 2am. He completed last night's show. In the early hours of this morning he got into difficulties. "The emergency services were called and he was taken to hospital. He was in cardiac arrest at the hospital and he never regained consciousness." Born Terry Nelhams on a council estate in Acton, west London, Faith went on to have an eventful career as a singer, actor and businessman. Paying tribute, Mr Field said: "Terry, or Tel, as we called him was one of the best communicators that I ever knew. "It could be a taxi driver in the street or a member of royalty - he was able to communicate with everybody at every level and he was respected and loved by them all. "He came through in the pioneering days of pop music and he really was a big icon along with Cliff Richard - they were the first wave of the British version of the pop music world." During the 1960s, Faith was one of Britain's top three pop stars alongside Cliff Richard and Billy Fury, with chart hits including number one singles What Do You Want and Poor Me. Bankruptcy In the 70s he starred as the chirpy cockney, just out of prison, in the classic television series Budgie, written by Keith Waterhouse. Faith moved away from showbiz in the early 80s, becoming a financial investments advisor. But in 1986, he had open heart surgery after being found to have seriously blocked arteries. Faith then took up financial journalism, with a regular column for the Daily Mail and then the Mail on Sunday.
And in 1999 he was behind the development of digital television's The Money Channel. But the venture soon ran into difficulties, the channel closed down and Faith was declared bankrupt last year, reportedly losing £32m. Faith held regular business meetings in the foyer of London's Savoy Hotel. And spokeswoman Pam Carter said he even attended a staff Christmas party there - and gave his verdict on the singing potential of employees. "He was always very genial, very agreeable and he always had a word for people - he was a character," she added. Details from BBC News web site. © BBC, MMIII
5 January 2003
Adam Faith is to start a tour this month with the play "Love & Marriage". The play is a romantic comedy which explores the ups and down of a modern marriage. It is written by Donald Churchill, who has written many plays, often for television, including episodes of the "Sweeney". The play can be seen as follows: 21 - 25 January: Bromley For more details, see: Mike Smith. Thanks to Garth Newton for the information.
29 December 2002 A PART TO KILL
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30 October 2002 ADAM FAITH DECLARED BANKRUPT Actor and former pop star Adam Faith has been made bankrupt. The move follows the collapse of TV venture the Money Channel, "to which I devoted some seven years of my life", the 62-year-old said in a statement. The channel was itself a victim of the dot.com collapse "and as a result of its demise my personal financial circumstances became severely affected", he said. "I hasten to add that the bulk of my creditors are institutional and no local traders or suppliers are affected by this process." Faith, married with a daughter, added: "I am currently involved in several theatrical projects, which I am looking forward to." His manager Alan Field, who released the statement, added: "He has always been a fighter and he's not going to roll over now, but will carry on." Faith, who lives in Kent, is involved in discussions over television, theatrical and film work, Mr Field added. Story filed: 22:55 Wednesday 30th October 2002 Copyright © 2002 Ananova 9th August 2002 ADAM HINTS AT MUSICAL COME-BACK Adam Faith was a guest (again) on BBC Radio 2's Steve Wright In The Afternoon on 9th August. He was primarily promoting his new sitcom, The House That Jack Built, but he also touched on future plans. He said "I've got a strong sense I may go on the road maybe next September. I've put together a one-man show, which will run through the decades of my life - 40's, 50's, 60's, right up to the present time". He made no further commitment, but there is some hope. However, several new projects have been reported over the last three or four years, and many have come to nothing, so don't hold your breath. Mike Smith 5th August 2002 ADAM AND WIFE
JACKIE On 5th August, the Daily Mail reported that Adam Faith, who separated from his wife in 1995 after a couple of afairs, were back living together in a new home in the village of Tudeley, Kent. Although their marriage was rocked by Faith's affairs with tennis star Chris Evert and actress Louise Lombard, they never divorced, but have lived separately for seven years. However, it is reported that more recently, Christmas and birthdays have been celebrated together. The new home is reported to be a large red brick farm house, reached by a long private road. The report added that a family friend staying at the house confirmed that the couple do both live there. On a subsequent radio interview, Adam refused to comment on his personal life. March 2002 Jagger, Puttnam and Caine in photography documentaryMick Jagger, David Puttnam and Michael Caine will feature in a forthcoming BBC2 documentary on the 1960s.
It looks at the decade through the eyes of photographers such as David Bailey and Terence Donovan. [The programme was broadcast on Saturday 10th August 2002] February 2002
Adam Faith and Gillian Taylforth are to star in a new prime-time BBC1 comedy. "The House That Jack Built" will be recorded in March and April, and broadcast later in the year. Faith plays Jack, the director of a building firm. Taylforth stars as his wife, Maxine. Though successful in work, Jack's attempts to run his family like a company are less well-received. His daughter, Lisa, is a compulsive shopaholic and his two sons, Roger and JJ, are perennially competing for their father's approval to inherit the company. Story filed: 08:56 Tuesday 26th February 2002
May 2001 Money
Channel founded by Adam Faith runs out of cash The directors have called in accountants PricewaterhouseCoopers to provide an assessment of the viability of the business. The TV channel, which is broadcast on Sky Digital, was started in 1999 to provide financial advice to small investors on subjects including pension planning and investment in shares, but it has failed to win the audiences required to keep advertisers happy. An interactive advertising service, which allows viewers to respond to ads at the click of the remote control, was introduced last year. Yesterday a spokesman for the channel said the new service had performed well, but not well enough to prevent a shortfall in working capital. The Money Channel floated in 1999 at 22p but within six months were changing hands at 500p. They crashed at the beginning of last year. Yesterday, when the shares were suspended, they were down another 0.5p to 13p. Mr Faith is no longer closely involved in the company, but retains a 9.15% stake. © 2001 Guardian Newspapers March 2001 ADAM on "STEVE WRIGHT in the AFTERNOON" Adam Faith was interviewed by Steve Wright on his BBC Radio 2 afternoon show on Monday 26th February 2001. The conversation lasted about 10 minutes, and was mainly to do with Adam's Money Channel, but he did say that he had been in and out of hospital quite a bit during last year. He underwent a heart and a gall bladder operation, and also had some new pins put in his legs (presumably renewing the ones from his car accident in the 70s). A joke was made about him being in hospital for a job lot! ACTING INSURANCE RECORDING
October 2000 Adam, The Radio Presenter During October and early November, 2000, Adam is presenting a Radio 2 programme called "Rockin' In The Aisles". Going out on Thursday evenings at 10pm, the half-hour show is looking at the films of the 50's, 60's and 70's that had rock 'n' roll sound tracks. Adam will be giving his own view of the films and the music, and inviting other critics to give their opinions.
June 2000
LONDON, June 2 (Reuters) - The Money Channel Plc. said today it had joined forces with Internet broadcaster BIBC in a deal that will eventually see the British finance channel broadcast on television, mobile phone and the Internet. The digital TV channel said BIBC would initially broadcast its 24-hour consumer finance programming over narrowband and midband networks and then later over digital ADSL -- one of a clutch of recent deals aimed at taking the channel interactive. "This is another move forward in the channel's drive to be carried on all emerging platforms and to become a leading provider of personal finance-related interactive services," The Money Channel Managing Director Adam Faith said in a statement. Former 1960s pop star and actor Faith said the channel was in talks to secure further carriage contracts with all major cable operators in Britain, Ireland and a number of European countries. Launched in February, The Money Channel is currently broadcast to more than 3.4 million homes through BSkyB'S satellite television services, Telewest Communication's cable network and The Dream Family Network's digital platform. The deal with BIBC will give viewers access to unscheduled programming through an archive facility on a non-platform specific network which will pave the way for programming via the television, mobile phone and the web. © 2000 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. August 1999 Adam's Picture in the London Evening Standard Unexpectedly, Adam's photograph suddenly jumped out of the pages of the London Evening Standard newspaper on 9th August 1999. It was, in fact, a piece about the in-flight magazine of British Midland airlines. A picture of one of the front covers carried a photograph of Adam with the line "You gotta have Faith - Pop Icons through a Lens". Did anyone see the actual magazine? Does anyone know if there were other pictures of Adam inside? Let me know by e-mail.
June 1999 TV Documentary & Video ADAM FAITH will be celebrating his 40th anniversary in showbiz this year. Adam has had an extraordinary and highly varied career over the years, which has ranged from POP STAR, ACTOR to FINANCIAL JOURNALIST and BUSINESSMAN. David Courtney, Adam's long-term musical partner, in association with UK based TV Production Company VIEWPRESS will be producing a two-part documentary series for television which will be an in depth look at FAITH'S career in the industry. David Courtney adds, "It is the intention that a video of the tv documentary will be available for sale after the initial transmissions. Keep an eye on my web site as the year progresses and you will see when and where the video will be available".
New Album It is also our plan to record a new Adam Faith album to coincide with the documentary and to celebrate the 40th anniversary."
March 1999 Financial Television ChannelIn March 1999 newspaper articles reported on Adam's plans for a cable-based personal financial television channel. The Financial Times reported on 24th March 1999, as follows:
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