Career As Manager/producer
Wharton later went on to discover, manage and produce the Moody Blues with the single "Go Now", promoting it with the first-ever purpose-made pop video, produced and directed by Wharton, and filmed on 35mm at the Marquee Club, scoring a #1 UK single and a #10 US hit in early 1965. He produced another chart hit in 1970 with "Friends" by Arrival. He left the music industry in 1971. In 1973 Wharton moved to Wales with his wife, Stevie, to raise a family. His son, Sonny Wharton, is a DJ of international repute.
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