Garry Mills

b. 13 October 1941, West Wickham, Kent, England. Mills was the nephew of jazz band leader Nat Gonella. Like many other UK pop singers of the late 50s, he started at London's 2i's coffee bar and this led to his signing with Dick Rowe at Top Rank. He covered major US hits such as ‘Running Bear', ‘Teen Angel', ‘Hey, Baby', ‘Seven Little Girls' and ‘Footsteps' before charting with the b-side of the last single. The song ‘Look For A Star' had been written for the Norman Wisdom film Follow A Star but was actually used in the Hammer movie Circus Of Horrors. In America, Gary's (he dro...