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What’s this? A rock’n’roll song written by the singer’s mum? That may have been the case, but there’s nothing safe about Freddy Cannon’s Tallahassee Lassie … There aren’t many rock’n’roll…
Step back with Vintage Rock as we select the 50 Greatest Albums of the 1950s, a decade that reshaped sound, style, and culture forever… Words by Michael Stephens At the hop. The…
One of 1955’s guaranteed hitmakers, Nudie-suited showman Webb Pierce found fame with the Louisiana Hayride before helping to launch the career of musicians such as Jimmy Day and Floyd Cramer…
Screamin’ Jay Hawkins was the godfather of ghoul rock, but did his wild image hold him back? Vintage Rock examines his extraordinary talent… The rock act trading in theatrical gore…
She was the singer behind the novelty 45 Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree, but with 1959’s Sweet Nothin’s, Brenda Lee proved she was a bona fide rock’n’roll star… Few people…
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.…
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…