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...
