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’50s
Sh-Boom was one of the songs that kickstarted the rock’n’roll revolution, and The Chords one of the first by a Black group to cross over into mainstream acceptance – yet…
A “shy boy”, A “mama’s boy”, A boy so nervous that he would panic when his father dived into a swimming pool: The young Elvis Presley, according to family friends,…
Bringing style and panache to hillbilly music, the Maddox Brothers And Rose’s rock-a-boogies have seldom been surpassed for riotous spontaneity… Country stars whose music anticipated early rock’n’roll continue to be…
Johnny B. Goode, Chuck Berry’s tale of a country boy axe hero was so sensational that NASA sent it into space just in case extraterrestrials were tuning in… Seventh on…
In the late 1950s, various contenders vied for the title of homegrown king of rock’n’roll, including Tommy Steele, Marty Wilde, Cliff Richard and Billy Fury. But for a brief spell between 1957…
If there was ever such a thing as ‘lounge rock’, Louis Prima would be its inventor and chief purveyor. His performances with Keely Smith, Sam Butera and The Witnesses in…
What’s this? A rock’n’roll song written by the singer’s mum? That may have been the case, but there’s nothing safe about Freddy Cannon’s Tallahassee Lassie … There aren’t many rock’n’roll…
Step back with Vintage Rock as we select the 50 Greatest Albums of the 1950s, a decade that reshaped sound, style, and culture forever… Words by Michael Stephens At the hop. The…
One of 1955’s guaranteed hitmakers, Nudie-suited showman Webb Pierce found fame with the Louisiana Hayride before helping to launch the career of musicians such as Jimmy Day and Floyd Cramer…
She was the singer behind the novelty 45 Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree, but with 1959’s Sweet Nothin’s, Brenda Lee proved she was a bona fide rock’n’roll star… Few people…