Recorded at Paramount, the transatlantic No.1-charting Loving You would be Elvis Presley’s first soundtrack album… The Technicolour Loving You (1957), Elvis’ second movie, allowed him to display his acting chops,…
First generation British rock fans have never lost an affection for Buddy Holly, but the arrival of compilation double album Legend presented his genius to a younger audience in the…
Released in 1975, Crazy Cavan And The Rhythm Rockers dedicated their first LP to their Teddy Boy followers. Entirely composed of originals, over half of them now classics, it’s one…
Brenda Lee belied her age on feisty rockers like Bigelow 6-200, Rock The Pop, Dynamite, Little Jonah (Rock On Your Steel Guitar) and Let’s Jump The Broomstick. But her second…
Supposedly intended to appeal to potential older record buyers who had been alarmed by his incendiary style, the Little Richard (1958) LP actually lives up to the performer’s billing as…
Cliff Richard’s 21 Today, to be strictly honest, isn’t quite a rock’n’roll album. It had plenty on it to interest Cliff and The Shadows fans, however, and many took it…
A musical snapshot of a man at the apex of his powers, 1957’s indispensable LP Here’s Little Richard combined all of Little Richard’s early Specialty hits up until 1957, and…
Although his roots lay in country, on a hot streak beginning with Honky Tonk Man in 1956, Johnny Horton cut several rockabilly classics. The album of the same name, released…
Nobody tore down the walls between country and rock’n’roll like Wanda Jackson, and the long-playing pinnacle of her ferocious talent was Rockin’ With Wanda! Randy Fox looks at a timeless…
“The songs are all original compositions written by Chuck, for Chuck, and as only Chuck can perform them,” read the sleevenotes. Jack Watkins analyses one of the great albums of…