- published: 23 Feb 2016
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Paul Franklyn "Legs" Barrett (born 14 December 1940 in Blackwood, Monmouthshire) is the UK's best known agent and manager of 1950s style Rock and Roll artistes, an author and previously a singer and film actor. He is married to Lorraine Barrett, the former Welsh Assembly Commissioner and Assembly Member for the Cardiff South and Penarth constituency.
Barrett is probably best known as the discoverer, mentor and first manager of the singer now known as Shakin' Stevens during the 1960s and 1970s, but has also represented and promoted many more of the genre's greats during a long and varied career.
Barrett was born in Blackwood, Monmouthshire in 1940 but moved to Penarth, 4 miles from Cardiff, at a young age, where he has lived ever since apart from a short period in London during 1960. His father was a brass moulder and his mother was a housewife and author. His parents named him Paul after Paul Robeson the black American Marxist Communist and Francis after Sir Francis Drake. However Barrett always disliked his middle name and formally changed it in 1961 to Franklyn because he preferred the name and admired Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He reached well over six feet tall by his mid teens and earned the nickname "Legs" due to his height and slim build, a nickname that has stayed with him all his life.
Actors: Maurice Wright (editor), George Moskov (producer), Sue Bernard (actress), Tanya Lemani (actress), Victoria Hale (actress), Russel Vincent (producer), Russel Vincent (director), Russel Vincent (writer), Dolly Read (actress), Bee Tompkins (actress), Rick Cooper (actor), Richard St. John (actor), Joe Castagna (actor), David Saxon (composer), Phae Dera (actress),
Genres: Drama,This old world is pretty crazy
People hurting everywhere
Cities dying, leaders lying
Demons dancing in the air
Once I thought I knew the answer
To the sorrow on this earth
One day judge and one day jury
But the more I see the beauty
Turn to hatred and to fear
There's just one thing that I'm sure of
You're the one I love
You're the one I love
Sure as stars above
You're the one I love
Turn my paper, flick my TV,
See my saviours all around
Some say this way, then it's that way
'Till I'm crazy with their sound
Then I look at our two children
See the magic in their eyes
And I wonder what's before them
They say that each new generation
Holds the secret to their time
Will they heed this age old story?
You're the one I love,
You're the one I love
Sure as stars above
You're the one I love
Mogadishu, Sarajevo,
Kampuchea, Palestine,
Belfast city, L.A. war zone,
Children screaming, men in line
Could I really turn to kill you
'Cos your eyes are not quite blue
Watch your daughter beg for mercy?
Could I fool myself forever
That a habit is a truth,
Does it matter if I tell you
That you're the one I love?
You're the one I love
Sure as stars above
You're the one I love
Take me on home, I want to go home