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When multimillionaire playboy Steve Bing, a massive Jerry Lee Lewis fan, sought to finance a record with The Killer, he began an epic odyssey that resulted in the astonishing comeback…
After two years in the US Army, an uncertain Elvis Presley faced a significant crossroads in his career when he returned to the music business in 1960. Here, Vintage Rock…
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…
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…
Critics haven’t always been kind to Singin’ To My Baby but while the only album released in Eddie Cochran’s lifetime lacks the songs that established him as one of the…
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…
We remember Buddy Holly and The Crickets’ classic debut… I always wondered why they put ‘vocal group with orchestra’ on the record, because we were a rock’n’roll band.” – Jerry…
Dale Hawkins’ Susie-Q was one of the finest songs to emerge out of early rock’n’roll, a swamp-rock classic. Yet the artist himself remains relatively under-appreciated, as does his seminal debut…
Back in 1958, no other six-stringer sounded anything like Link Wray. Building on the template of his youth-quaking Rumble, Wray went on to record a debut album that remains an…
With his notable looks, baritone voice and Cherokee Indian heritage, Marvin Rainwater was an enigmatic star who stood out from the norm. One of the first American rock’n’roll stars to…