We’ll Never Find Another You – The Billy Fury Story The premature passing of Billy Fury on 28 January 1983, left Britain bereft of one of its brightest ever rock…
When the much-loved Jackie Wilson died in January 1984, the music world lost one of its most soulful stars. In 2024, to mark the 40th anniversary of his passing, his…
When namechecking the trailblazers of rock’n’roll it’s absurd that Bo Diddley far too often gets overlooked. Vintage Rock rights that wrong by joining his last band leader and bassist, Debby…
Performer, songwriter, arranger, innovator – Ray Charles did them all while mastering the vocabulary of rock’n’roll and becoming the father of soul. Randy Fox chronicles the life and times of…
Written for Buddy Holly by his friend Paul Anka, It Doesn’t Matter Anymore would give the Lubbock-born singer a posthumous No.1 in the UK… For a man known for writing…
Vintage Rock meets blues fanatic Dion, as he makes a welcome return alongside some of his favourite female artists on a brand new collection of songs, Girl Friends, that explores…
We pick out some of the best rock’n’roll songs from over the pond that were reinvented by UK performers with our Top 20 British rock covers of US records Covering…
Big Picture Depiction: Vintage Rock’s Top Rock Biopics Many of the great rockers, from Elvis Presley and Buddy Holly to Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis have all been the…
In celebration of the life of Jerry Lee Lewis, we look back at the thrilling rise of one of rock’n’roll’s most volatile originals It’s inevitable that the life choices of…
In Dreams: Remembering Roy Orbison Roy Orbison Jr joins Vintage Rock in remembering his father and to celebrate The Big O’s remarkable legacy Thirty five years after his death, the…