This week, Ira spoke with Peter Noone.
Peter Noone and Herman’s Hermits, performing at the South Point August 1-3, are responsible for such hits as I’m Henry The Eighth, I Am,” “Mrs. Brown, You’ve Got a Lovely Daughter,” “There’s a Kind of Hush,” and “I’m Into Something Good.”
In a multi-dimensional career that has garnered respect from his colleagues and millions of fans worldwide, Noone is the professional’s professional. As a child, he appeared on the British television shows Coronation Street, Knight Errant, and Family Solicitor, and went on to study acting at the Manchester School of Music and Drama.
In 1963, he joined a Manchester beat group, the Heartbeats, whose name was changed shortly thereafter to Herman & the Hermits and eventually shortened to Herman’s Hermits.” His career with that popular recording act sold well over 50 million records, at times eclipsing the Beatles themselves in sales.
His career includes critically acclaimed stage performances in two Broadway shows during the 1980s, including “The Pirates of Penzance,” to his roles on the silver screen. He appeared as Herman in two films, 1966’s “Hold On” and 1968’s “Mrs. Brown You’ve Got a Lovely Daughter”; was one of the few bright spots in 1978’s “Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”; and performed in 1982’s “Rockin’ the Night Away: Life From Palm Springs,” 1996’s “Hullabaloo,” Vol. 8, and 2000’s “The British Invasion Returns.” In 1999, he sang the end theme to the Kirk Douglas film, “Diamonds.”
