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| | Telegraph | News | Adam Faith |
 | | Adam Faith, who has died aged 62, made his mark successively as an actor, pop manager, financial adviser and columnist, and latterly, digital media entrepreneur; prior to any of these personae, however, he was, with Cliff Richard, Britain's first home-grown teen pop idol. |
 | | Faith sprang to fame in the late 1950s, after an edition of the television music show 6.5 Special was broadcast from the Soho espresso bar where Faith's skiffle group was the house band. |
 | | Faith's wafer-thin pop sound was soon overtaken in popularity by Merseybeat, and by the mid-Sixties he had virtually given up singing, but by then he had already helped to usher in a new era in both British music and social history. |
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