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Vintage Rock
As rock’n’roll soared, the influential jump blues pioneer Louis Jordan needed a hit. Could he reverse his fortunes with a Quincy Jones-produced LP that reimagined his smashes in the raucous…
The Sonics arrived out of the Pacific Northwest garage scene kicking and shrieking their way to cult notoriety with a short, sharp, shock of a debut album that has since…
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…
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……
The music of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons remains timeless and evocative of a golden era – in 2017 Vintage Rock caught up with the man with one of…
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…
When multimillionaire playboy Steve Bing, a massive Jerry Lee Lewis fan, sought to finance a record with The Killer, he began an epic odyssey that resulted in the astonishing comeback…
Link Wray’s 50s instrumental Rumble practically invented the power chord, became the centre of a moral panic and inspired a whole generation to pick up the electric guitar – and…
Six and a half decades, 46 studio albums, 150-plus singles, could we choose just 40 essential Cliff Richard recordings? By Ian Wade He’s been admired by a huge selection of…
When Rock’n’Roll Goes Gospel… Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard and Johnny Cash all released gospel records at the height of their fame and fortune. Now largely forgotten or underrated,…