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…
At the time of The Blues Brothers’ cinema release in 1980, soul and R&B weren’t exactly the most in-vogue genres in America. But they were to have a renaissance in…
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…
Although mainstream recognition only came with a run of countrypolitan ballads in his ‘Silver Fox’ phase in the mid-1970s, Charlie Rich was a widely respected artist and one of Sun’s…
Hank Ballard And The Midnighters never quite made big league status. But alongside cutting a rug on the 50s scene, they had several fondly recalled hits for Syd Nathan’s Federal…