Eddie Fisher was one of the most successful pop singers of the 1950s and '60s
with a string of hit singles that displayed his forceful and appealing voice in
contrast to the mellower ballad singers that preceded him. Handsome and
charismatic, Fisher won fame as a teenager and sustained his popularity as a
performer, on records and on his own television show. His enormous fame was
fanned when his marriage to musicals favourite Debbie Reynolds ended in scandal
due to his love affair with actress Elizabeth Taylor. Fisher and Taylor's
marriage ended abruptly within two years when the...