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Steve O'Brien
It’s nearly 70 years since Elvis Presley found himself singing to a dog on national TV in what’s considered the nadir of his career. But was the programme’s host really…
Featuring not only two former members of The Shadows but two future Led Zeppelin members, Diamonds gave us one of the greatest instrumental singles of the 1960s For Jet Harris…
The Ed Sullivan Show, which ran on US TV from 1948 to 1971, was the programme that introduced many of rock’n’roll’s biggest names to the American public. Vintage Rock remembers…
In 1959, Cliff Richard starred in a movie that would soon be considered a British classic, a gritty and cynical satire of the pop music business titled Expresso Bongo… The…
In 1960 the best-selling instrumental band of all time released their debut LP, Walk, Don’t Run. Vintage Rock meets two of the longest-serving members of The Ventures to talk about…
A few hours before the Million Dollar Quartet gathered around the piano, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis laid down a stone-cold rockabilly classic, one whose history stretched back over…
His contemporaries believed Dickie Pride possessed one of the finest voices of his generation, yet he died in obscurity aged just 27… Janis Joplin, Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison,…
It’s the movie that brought us our favourite 50s rock’n’rollers in glorious full colour. Now, 66 years on from its release, we look back at the legacy of Frank Tashlin’s…
RCA/Legacy Recordings will release the Elvis On Tour boxset, a newly-compiled 50th anniversary celebration of Presley’s monumental 1972 concert trek (premiering unreleased live and studio material), on Friday, December 2.…
His was the velveteen voice behind three of the greatest movie songs of the 60s – From Russia With Love, Born Free and On Days Like These. Vintage Rock talks…