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Peter Blair Denis Bernard Noone (born 5 November 1947) (1992). 9780851129396, Guinness Publishing. ISBN 9780851129396 is an English singer-songwriter, musician, actor, and teen idol. He was the lead singer "Herman" in the 1960s pop group Herman's Hermits.
Noone studied voice and drama at St. Bede's College and at the Manchester School of Music, where he won the Outstanding Young Musician Award.
The band's hits included: "I'm into Something Good", "Can't You Hear My Heartbeat", "Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter", "Silhouettes", "Wonderful World", "I'm Henry the Eighth, I Am" (in the U.S.), "There's a Kind of Hush", "Just a Little Bit Better", "A Must to Avoid", "Listen People", "The End of the World", "Dandy", and "No Milk Today". Herman's Hermits sold more than 60 million records and had 14 gold singles and seven gold albums. The Hermits were twice named in the U.S. trade paper Cashbox as "Entertainer of the Year".
As Herman, Noone performed on hundreds of television programmes and appeared with the Ed Sullivan, Jackie Gleason, Dean Martin and Danny Kaye television programs. He starred in ABC's musical version of The Canterville Ghost, Hallmark Hall of Fame's presentation of the classic Pinocchio (in which he played the title role), and three feature films for MGM: Mrs. Brown, You've Got A Lovely Daughter, Hold On! and When The Boys Meet The Girls., after his band was awarded a gold record for "No Milk Today" in 1966]]
They were the opening act of the 1970 Royal Variety Performance from the London Palladium performing a medley of their hits to date followed by their rendition of If I Were a Rich Man, Where is Love? and Old Henry's Fish and Chips. They ended with their recent hit There's a Kind of Hush.Archived at Ghostarchive and the
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In 1974, Noone scored a No. 15 US AC and No. 33 Canadian AC() success with "Meet Me on the Corner Down at Joe's Cafe" on the Casablanca Records label. Earlier in the year, his "(I Think I'm Over) Getting Over You" had reached No. 63 in the Canadian AC charts. In 1989 he had a No. 19 US AC hit with his solo recording of Goffin and King's "I'm into Somethin' Good" from the film . In the 1980s, Noone released a solo album, One of the Glory Boys.
In the 1990s, Noone hosted a television programme, "My Generation", on VH1 (British and Irish TV channel), featuring retro music; the programme lasted four years.
As an actor, Noone played a number of roles on television, including that of Stanley Fairclough in the soap opera Coronation Street, leaving that role in 1961.Nown, Graham ed.(1985). Coronation Street 1960–1985: 25 years, CBC Enterprises, 1986. photo with brief description of 1961 cameo role p. 209 Noone also starred as Frederick in The Pirates of Penzance on Broadway in the 1980s, and later, at the Drury Lane Theatre in London’s West End. He reprised that role again during a US tour and international touring productions.Fink, Anne. "Herman’s Hermits Starring Peter Noone Comes to the MAC Oct. 23", Chicago Tribune, 6 October 2015, accessed 18 April 2019 He also appeared in Romance/Romance as Alfred Von Wilmers in the U.S. National Tour of the Broadway hit.
In 2019, Noone won the “Entertainer of the Year” award at the Casino Entertainment Awards in Las Vegas.
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