HOLLIDAY, MICHAEL - Very Best (Sealed) (CD)

Michael Holliday is a Liverpool-born British crooner popular in the fifties and early sixties. Holliday's style of singing was heavily influenced by Bing Crosby, who was his idol. The style would earn him the title of "the British Bing Crosby". Holliday had an ongoing problem with stage fright, and had a mental breakdown in 1961. He died two years later, from a suspected drug overdose, in Croydon, Surrey. With a number of chart hits in the pre-Beatles era in the UK, including two number one singles, "The Story of My Life" and "Starry Eyed".