I'd like to be a geneticist to be honest, but there are limits to what I can do now. For my dream to come true I'd have to be 20 years old again, heading off to a blue chip university.

After a number of small parts he was given a more substantial role in the play Night Must Fall playing opposite Dame Sybil Thorndike. Faith's last Top Ten hit in the UK (in October 1963) was "The First Time" (UK No. In autumn 1969 he took the lead in a touring production of Billy Liar.

He was one of the most charted acts of the 1960s. He was also one of the first UK acts to record original songs regularly.