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…
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…
As the drummer for Stray Cats, Slim Jim Phantom has been integral to the continued evolution of rockabilly – a thread reflected in his choice of songs that highlight the…
In our lowdown on Billy Fury, we look at how one of the brightest lights in Larry Parnes’ stable of stars remains a true icon of British rock’n’roll, whose passion…
The inimitable Connie Francis left us in July 2025. Vintage Rock pays tribute to a shining light of the golden era and one of the most successful singers in chart…
Leaping from jukebox star to rocking at the movies, Vintage Rock celebrates Little Richard’s film career on the big and small screen… There comes a point in every rock’n’roller’s life…
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…