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50s music
In 2021, 70 years after Charlie Gracie released his first single and a year before his passing, the singer told Vintage Rock how he was trading in rock’n’roll before the term…
Join Vintage Rock as we head to the cinema to explore the hottest rock’n’roll movies of the 1950s… The mid-’50s brought with it a new, different kind of teenager. The…
Creator of some highly distinctive records, Jack Scott blazed across the stage with a voice that cemented his legacy as one of rock’s most electrifying pioneers… Here Vintage Rock evaluates…
The singer’s charismatic Louisiana Hayride appearances were enthusiastically appreciated by screaming female fans, but Bob Luman struggled to maintain his rockin’ profile… Bob Luman is one of those artists whose…
He may not have been an actual criminal, but the Man in Black could be light-fingered when it came to songwriting, as is shown by one of his signature songs……
Leaving his blues-influenced rock behind, His Hand In Mine was the first of Elvis’ gospel albums… but was this new sound what his fans wanted? Words by Douglas McPherson When…
Sam Cooke, soul’s first true superstar, blazed a trail that still burns bright… Here Vintage Rock revisits Hit Kit – an indispensable collection of his early hits. Sam Cooke’s A…
Johnny ‘Guitar’ Watson is best remembered as a 70s funk artist, but back in the 50s, as a teenager called Young John Watson, he cut one of the most extraordinary…
Some people regard Cliff Richard and the Drifters’ Move It not just as the first true British rock’n’roll recording, but also the greatest. Here Vintage Rock traces its creation… It’s…
Along with his daughter Gina Haley and biographer Chris Gardner, Vintage Rock raises a glass to the Father of Rock’n’Roll, Bill Haley and His Comets, who changed the course of…