Paul Barrett

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...