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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…
Join Vintage Rock as we head to the cinema to explore the hottest rock’n’roll movies of the 1950s… The mid-’50s brought with it a new, different kind of teenager. The…
Creator of some highly distinctive records, Jack Scott blazed across the stage with a voice that cemented his legacy as one of rock’s most electrifying pioneers… Here Vintage Rock evaluates…
He may not have been an actual criminal, but the Man in Black could be light-fingered when it came to songwriting, as is shown by one of his signature songs……
Johnny ‘Guitar’ Watson is best remembered as a 70s funk artist, but back in the 50s, as a teenager called Young John Watson, he cut one of the most extraordinary…
By the time they made Rant N’ Rave With The Stray Cats – the third and final album for Arista in 1983 – the NY rockers were no longer the…
Along with his daughter Gina Haley and biographer Chris Gardner, Vintage Rock raises a glass to the Father of Rock’n’Roll, Bill Haley and His Comets, who changed the course of…
Sonny Curtis, Crickets guitarist and composer of I Fought The Law, died at the age of 88 on 19 September. His death was reported on the Buddy Holly Facebook page: “We…
In our lowdown on The Everly Brothers, we look at how the flowing harmonies and beautiful melodies of this sibling acoustic duo from Kentucky offered an alternative to the rebel…
When young fans caught the red hot act of Billy Lee Riley And The Little Green Men in the late 50s, such was their enthusiastic response, the band would be…