British rhythm and blues and jazz singer and keyboard player.
Played keyboards with Billy Fury's Blue Flames in the 60s.
At sixteen years of age he entered into a management agreement with Larry Parnes, who gave artists new names such as Marty Wilde and Billy Fury.
Fame was already playing piano for Billy Fury in a backing band called the Blue Flames, which later became billed as "Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames". The band had great success with rhythm and blues.
Fame's greatest success was "The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde" in 1968, which was a number one hit in the United Kingdom, and in the United States; Fame also had UK number one hits with "Yeh Yeh" (1965) and "Get Away" (1966).