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Birth name
  
Rachel Brennock

Role
  
Singer-songwriter

Name
  
Rachel Fury


Years active
  
1971-1989

Instruments
  
Vocalist

Associated acts
  
Rachel Fury singing with Durga McBroom while wearing a black blouse

Movies
  
Robin Hood Junior, The Darwin Adventure

Siblings
  
Paul Brennock, Loraine Brennock


Born
  
1961 (age 60), Islington, London, United Kingdom

Similar
  
Durga McBroom, Clare Torry, Sam Brown (singer)

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Rachel Fury is the stage name of Rachel Brennock, an English singer songwriter and actress most known for performing with Pink Floyd on tour from 1987 to 1989.

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Career

Rachel Fury with a tight-lipped smile while wearing a black long sleeve dress and on the bottom part are some information about her

Brennock began her acting career aged ten, appearing in various TV shows and films, a number of which, such as Mr Horatio Knibbles (1971) and Robin Hood Junior (1975), were produced under the aegis of the UK Children's Film Foundation. At the same time, Brennock was building a career as a singer. In 1972, under the name "Weeny Bopper"; she recorded the single "David, Donny and Michael", a Pye Records release intended to capitalise on weenybopper enthusiasm for David Cassidy, Donny Osmond, and Michael Jackson. By 1978, Brennock was an established London session singer, known for a "sassy 'Ronettes' sound."

Rachel Fury performing while wearing a black sleeveless dress

In the 1980s, Brennock adopted the stage name Rachel Fury, and toured as a backing singer with Howard Devoto and The Lover Speaks. She co-wrote the song "When We Dream" with Phil Saatchi for his 1987 album Wheel of Fortune, and performed vocals on several Saatchi songs. Fury signed on as a backing singer for the Pink Floyd A Momentary Lapse of Reason Tour after being introduced to the band by her former boyfriend James Guthrie, Pink Floyd's longtime recording engineer. She sang with Pink Floyd on tour from 1987 to 1989, and appears on both the concert film and live album Delicate Sound of Thunder, the Italian TV broadcast of the 1989 Pink Floyd concert in Venice, and the (bootlegged) MTV taping of the 1987 concert at the Omni in Atlanta. In these live performances, Fury is noted for the opening vocals on "The Great Gig in the Sky" and for harmonising with David Gilmour on "Comfortably Numb".


Rachel Fury smiling during their performance and wearing a black sleeveless top and earrings

Rachel Fury singing while wearing a black sleeveless dress, black gloves, and earrings


References

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