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Bringing It All Back Home – Champion Jack Dupree

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  • November 10, 2016
  • by Vintage Rock
Champion Jack Dupree’s startling life story took in everything from early tragedy to transatlantic success. John Howard remembers a chance encounter with the blues icon when he returned home for…
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Legends of Rock: Paul Barrett

  • 4 minute read
  • September 30, 2016
  • by Vintage Rock
Paul Barrett has been a mainstay of the UK rock’n’roll scene for more than 50 years, not only managing and promoting homegrown talent butalso bringing over many top-drawer American rockers. He…
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Album of the week! The Supremes – Meet The Supremes

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  • September 1, 2016
  • by admin
Unlike The Miracles, Diana Ross and her winsome young group were just starting out when Motown pressed up their debut LP Meet The Supremes in that same year, 1962. The…
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Top 40 Unsung Uk Artists: No.23 – Kim Roberts

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  • August 4, 2016
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Kim Roberts’ recording career began at Joe Meek’s RGM studio in London’s Holloway Road after Heinz, his principal protégé, lodged at her parents’ guest house in Halifax. Until then, her…
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Long live Vinyl – Album Of The Week: The Sonics – 50

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  • August 3, 2016
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    Light In The Attic Records are celebrating a half-century of blistering Pacific Northwest rock’n’roll with a three-LP boxed set by the Sonics – easily one of the most…
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Vintage Rock writer John Howard pays tribute to Scotty Moore

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  • June 30, 2016
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The guitar that changed the world has been silenced. Scotty Moore, Elvis Presley’s legendary guitarist has died at 84. Scotty, a semi-regular visitor to the UK, had been in poor…
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Watch Now – Stay Greasy – Rock ‘n’ Roll Barbershop Terror

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  • November 4, 2015
  • by admin
  This Monday JCL Films & Sintheticboi, released the feature length documentary Stay Greasy on Vimeo. The film tells the story of Rockabilly Barbershop and 1950s Beauty Parlor It’s Something Hell’s on Carnaby Street,…
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On this day in 1956, Buddy Holly recorded the song Blue Days, Black Nights in Nashville, Tennessee. ow.ly/NvE150Dd97E

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On this day in 1965, American disc-jockey Alan Freed, the "father of rock and roll", died from uraemia and cirrhosis brought on by alcoholism at the age of 42. ow.ly/TOZ550Dd96M

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On this day in 2006, Wilson Pickett died of a heart attack, aged just 64. Among his best-known hits are In The Midnight Hour, Land Of 1,000 Dances, Mustang Sally and Funky Broadway. ow.ly/ukpV50DbZYE

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On this day in 1998, Carl Perkins died aged 65. According to Charlie Daniels, "Carl Perkins' songs personified the rockabilly era, and Carl Perkins' sound personifies the rockabilly sound more so than anybody involved in it, because he never changed." ow.ly/QDSV50DbZZ2

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Phil Everly of The Everly Brothers was born on this day in Chicago, Illinois in 1939. He died on 3 January 2014,16 days before his 75th birthday. ow.ly/Mdag50Dc00q

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