Elvis Presley cut a diverse catalogue of music to accompany his many movies from wild rockers to epic tearjerkers and while some songs are best consigned to history, there’s plenty…
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…
Screamin’ Jay Hawkins was the godfather of ghoul rock, but did his wild image hold him back? Vintage Rock examines his extraordinary talent… The rock act trading in theatrical gore…
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…
When the rock’n’roll pioneers Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and JP Richardson, aka The Big Bopper set off on a chilly tour in January 1959, no-one suspected it would spell the…
Vintage Rock journeys back to the uniquely British phenomenon of the Skiffle Craze, a grassroots musical explosion of the 1950s that transformed coffee bars into stages for raw, energetic performance.…
Born of rockabilly rebellion and deeply entangled with the punk era in which it was conceived, The Cramps debut album is the unrelenting thriller that birthed the psychobilly movement. Here…
STEP INTO SUN RECORDS ➔ The Ultimate Guide to a Revolution Over 70 years ago, visionary producer Sam Phillips – the man rightly known as the Father of Rock’n’Roll – launched a…
After her R&B and rock’n’roll beginnings stood her out as a serious contender, Etta James made the move to a fresh stable for a new lease of life. Vintage Rock…
The rock’n’roll world was overjoyed to hear news of Some Things Never Change, an album’s worth of mostly unreleased Carl Perkins material. Vintage Rock spoke to its producer Bill Lloyd in Nashville about…