It may have missed out the big hits, but Jerry Lee’s long-playing debut showed his extreme versatility, from rockers to ballads… and even a traditional gospel number. Jack Watkins listens…
Hemsby regular Paul Ansell picks out a perfect 10 that set him on the path to rockin’ greatness… Paul Ansell arrived with his first band The Blue Rhythm Boys, before…
Brian “Licorice” Locking began his career in Vince Taylor’s Playboys before joining Marty Wilde’s Wildcats, playing on such hits as Teenager In Love and Bad Boy. He was the bass guitarist of…
Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, Charlie Rich, Johnny Cash and Billy Lee Riley all began their careers at Sun Records – and one man kept rhythm for all of them.…
Buddy Holly as a country artist? It could have easily ended up that way, had the young singer’s head not been turned by the arrival of Elvis Presley in the…
His was the velveteen voice behind three of the greatest movie songs of the 60s – From Russia With Love, Born Free and On Days Like These. Vintage Rock talks…
More than six decades after Johnny Burnette scaled the charts with Dreamin’, his son Rocky Burnette and nephew Billy Burnette discuss the life, death and lasting influence of one…
Not only was he, arguably, British pop’s first major singer-songwriter, but Billy Fury was also the creative force behind The Sound Of Fury. Alan Clayson chronicles its journey… He…
Space the final frontier… It was the other-worldly sci-fi sound that changed music production forever, now Vintage Rock boldly goes where no magazine has gone before to tell the story…
As much a country performer as a rockabilly one, Carl Perkins’ music is one that true rock’n’roll fans continue to cherish, even if his fame never quite soared like that…