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…
The Rockin’ Race Jamboree returns in February 2023 with star guests including The Delta Bombers, The Planet Rockers, The Lucky Stars, Modern Don Juans and Slink Moss Explosion. 2023’s event,…
It’s the movie that brought us our favourite 50s rock’n’rollers in glorious full colour. Now, 66 years on from its release, we look back at the legacy of Frank Tashlin’s…
Revolver, The Beatles’ revolutionary 1966 album will be re-released worldwide on 28 October in a range of newly mixed and expanded Special Edition packages by Apple Corps Ltd./Capitol/UMe. The Special…
RCA/Legacy Recordings will release the Elvis On Tour boxset, a newly-compiled 50th anniversary celebration of Presley’s monumental 1972 concert trek (premiering unreleased live and studio material), on Friday, December 2.…
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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…