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…
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…
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…
First, he was one of The Dominoes, a Sheffield duo of Everly Brothers persuasion, and then victor of a holiday camp jiving contest before his absorption into The Chuck Fowler…
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…
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…
The new issue of Vintage Rock is out now! This month marks the 30th anniversary of the tragic plane crash that took the lives of Ricky Nelson, his band and tour manager…
On this day in 1955, Bill Haley’s “Rock Around The Clock” became the first rock and roll record to hit #1…
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,…
Elvis Presley was the ultimate iconoclast. He played many roles throughout his life, from rock’n’roll rebel to God-fearing gentleman, from singer to screen actor, from sex symbol to father. It…