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Jack Watkins
The emotionally charged singing of Clyde McPhatter inspired Elvis Presley, Jackie Wilson and Smokey Robinson. As a member of Billy Ward And His Dominoes and founder of The Drifters, and…
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…
Cliff Richard’s 21 Today, to be strictly honest, isn’t quite a rock’n’roll album. It had plenty on it to interest Cliff and The Shadows fans, however, and many took it…
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…
Lloyd Price may never have been accorded the status of a true great, but his Lawdy Miss Clawdy was one of the cornerstone songs of rock’n’roll. Later dubbed ‘Mr Personality’…
J.P. Richardson, alias the Big Bopper, shared equal billing with Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens on the tragic Winter Dance Party tour of 1959 on the back of his novelty…
We revisit the early days of the singer and band who are forever remembered for their all-time British rock’n’roll classic, Shakin’ All Over. By Jack Watkins In the story of…
He started as out as The Singing Bartender and became the Boss of the Blues. For many, though, whether as Big Joe or just plain old Joe Turner, the iconic…
Although his roots lay in country, on a hot streak beginning with Honky Tonk Man in 1956, Johnny Horton cut several rockabilly classics. The album of the same name, released…