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Barry’s life had its share of Dionysian excess – parties at his flat in Eaton Place were renowned; Jimi Hendrix spent his first night in London there. I’d always wanted to use it in a film.” The song so perfectly matched the tone of his movie that Wright called his main character Eloise.
Barry is survived by his wife, Christine (nee Goodliff), whom he married in 1995, their children, Jack and Sophia, his stepson, David, and his niece, Paul’s daughter, Paige.
Barry Ryan, singer, composer and photographer, born 25 October 1948; died 28 September 2021
Paul Ryan (24 October 1948 – 29 November 1992) was an English singer, songwriter and record producer.
Born in Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, Paul and his twin brother Barry were the sons of singer Marion Ryan, and had some success as a singing duo during the 1960s, known simply as “Paul & Barry Ryan”.
At 16 Marion sent them to a kibbutz in Israel, where they lasted two weeks and were later discovered singing in a Tel Aviv nightclub. Although he was not physically scarred it had a psychological impact, which may have increased his dependency on alcohol. Barry passed the 11-plus to the local grammar but Paul did not, so the pair went instead to board at the fee-paying Fulneck school in Pudsey, outside Leeds.
In 1965 they signed a recording contract with Decca and brought out singles such as "Don't Bring Me Your Heartaches" (1965), "Have Pity on the Boy" (1966), and "Missy Missy" (1966).
When it turned out that Barry's brother, allegedly on the verge of a nervous breakdown, was unable to cope any longer with all the stress connected with show business, the two brothers decided on a new division of labour: Paul would write the songs which Barry would then interpret as a solo artist.
It surprised no one but him that when he submitted six pictures to the National Portrait Gallery, all were bought.
In 1976 Barry married Miriam, daughter of Sultan Ibrahim of Johor. Barry performed the recording in two takes, with a high degree of professionalism in the production. In 1986 both brothers entered rehab. Now they knew what they wanted.
However, the stress of public attention caused Paul to retreat into the background, while Barry went solo. New wave band The Damned reached number 3 in the UK charts in 1986 with their version of Eloise.
Barry is married to Christine Davison and has 2 children, Jack Davison (18th April 1995) and Sophia Davison (4th September 1996).
Paul died of cancer at the age of 44.
(Quoted directly from the Wikipedia entries for "Barry Ryan (singer)" and "Paul Ryan (singer).")
Paul & Barry Ryan
| Episode | Performance | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 02/11/1967 | Heartbreaker Mimed Performance | |||
| 29/06/1967 | Claire Mimed Performance | |||
| 16/02/1967 | Keep It Out Of Sight Mimed Performance | |||
| 24/11/1966 | Missy Missy Mimed Performance | |||
| 02/06/1966 | I Love Her Mimed Performance | |||
| 12/05/1966 | I Love Her Mimed Performance | |||
| 10/02/1966 | Have Pity On The Boy Mimed Performance | |||
| 20/01/1966 | Have Pity On The Boy Mimed Performance | |||
| 18/11/1965 | Don't Bring Me Your Heartaches Mimed Performance | |||
| 28/10/1965 | Don't Bring Me Your Heartaches Mimed Performance |
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Barry Ryan obituary
Singer, composer and photographer who shot to fame in the 1960s as part of the teen duo Paul and Barry Ryan
Suzie MackenzieThu 7 Oct 2021 18.04 BST
Barry Ryan, who has died aged 72 after complications from a lung disorder, spent the last 40 years of his professional life as a fashion and portrait photographer, working for magazines such as Italian Vogue and David Bailey’s Ritz.
In 1976, he released an album, Scorpio Rising. Hyper-melodramatic content with soaring male vocals were in vogue. But he never forgot his roots. Wright was not born when Eloise was first a hit but he knew the version by the Damned. Paul Ryan wrote Barry’s 1968 hit, “Eloise”, the 1971 hit “Who Put the Lights Out?” for Dana and another of his songs, “I Will Drink the Wine”, was a UK hit single for Frank Sinatra.
In the 1970s, Ryan relocated to the United States and later left the music industry.
However, he made a comeback in the late 1990s when a two CD set with his, and his brother's, old songs was published. “When I heard the original by Barry Ryan I fell even more in love with the song. Promoted by BRAVO, the German youth magazine, Ryan also recorded a number of songs in German, for example "Die Zeit macht nur vor dem Teufel halt" ("Time Only Stops at The Devil").
Ryan stopped performing in the early 1970s.
Fred left when the boys were two, and Barry and Paul were brought up by “Nana”, their adored grandmother, watched over by three loving “sisters” – technically their aunts, but who were roughly the same age as the twins – while Marion, who had had her boys as a teenager, pursued her singing career.
But most of his fame derived from his brief, if meteoric, success as a pop star and teen idol in the mid to late 1960s.
With his identical twin, Paul – at 16, they were not much older than their fans – in 1965 he formed the duo Paul and Barry Ryan.