Last updated: 08 July 2009
Ricky Valance is best known for the number one single Tell Laura I Love Her, which sold over a million copies in 1960.
Like many artists of the time, the one big hit was never followed up, but provided him with a career that has lasted four decades.
Read the full Ricky Valance biography.
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