Vintage Rock
Vintage Rock is UK magazine which covers the music, artists, lifestyle and culture of the golden era of rock 'n' roll from the early 1950s to mid 1960s.
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Retrospective by David Burke, Vintage Rock, December 2019
America was riven by racial conflict when rock'n'roll breached the colour line, uniting black and white youth in a precursor to the hard-won equalities of ...
Hank Ballard and the Midnighters: Hank Ballard: A Simple Twist of Fate
Retrospective and Interview by David Burke, Vintage Rock, November 2019
Chubby Checker may have become synonymous with 'The Twist', but that didn't bother the song's composer. "It was a blessing for me," said Hank Ballard ...
Retrospective by David Burke, Vintage Rock, Winter 2012
THE BEATLES may have come from Liverpool, England – but they were made in Hamburg, Germany. That, at least, is the view of Allan Williams, ...
The Beatles, Roy Orbison: Roy and the Boys: Roy Orbison and the Beatles On Tour
Retrospective and Interview by David Burke, Vintage Rock, 2017
PICTURE THE SCENE – Roy Orbison is at the back of the bus working on 'Oh, Pretty Woman', the song that would become his biggest ...
Chuck Berry in Hail! Hail! Mr Rock & Roll
Retrospective by David Burke, Vintage Rock, 2017
CHUCK BERRY WAS "more complicated, more difficult, more diabolical" than any movie star, according to the man who directed him in Hail! Hail! Rock'n'Roll. Yet ...
Chuck Berry: You Can't Catch Me: Chuck Berry's Final Years
Retrospective by David Burke, Vintage Rock, 2017
THE ARTIST IS immortalised in death as seldom in life. At least that's mostly the way of things. But not when it came to Chuck ...
Retrospective and Interview by David Burke, Vintage Rock, May 2014
"YOU FOLKS KEPT us alive, thank goodness. If it wasn't for you all over there, a lot of us wouldn't still be playing," says Sonny ...
Retrospective by David Burke, Vintage Rock, March 2017
AMERICAN CULTURAL icon Dick Clark once described Bobby Darin as "a musical chameleon" who could effortlessly traverse a multiplicity of genres, from heavy duty rhythm ...
Retrospective by David Burke, Vintage Rock, Spring 2013
WHEN HURRICANE KATRINA devastated New Orleans in 2005, resulting in the deaths of some 1,833 people and causing property damage estimated at £1,300 billion, a ...
Retrospective and Interview by David Burke, Vintage Rock, July 2015
THEY WERE acclaimed as pioneers of the surf sound alongside Dick Dale, Link Wray and the Ventures, but the Fireballs, who enjoyed a US chart ...
Retrospective and Interview by David Burke, Vintage Rock, March 2015
"TO SURVIVE without a hit record for 63 years and make a good living – that's the success of Charlie Gracie," says the rock'n'roll pioneer ...
Retrospective by David Burke, Vintage Rock, Summer 2013
BILL HALEY was an unlikely pioneer of the rock'n'roll revolution. Even in his pomp he looked like your dad. ...
Screamin' Jay Hawkins: Spellbound
Retrospective by David Burke, Vintage Rock, Summer 2018
FOR SOMEONE whose live performances involved climbing out of a coffin, it came as no surprise that Screamin' Jay Hawkins resurrected his career in the ...
Profile by David Burke, Vintage Rock, Winter 2013
LISTEN TO The Million Dollar Quartet Sessions, the seminal 1956 recording of Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis and Johnny Cash jamming at Sun ...
Waylon Jennings: Best Friend of Mine: Waylon Jennings on Buddy Holly
Retrospective by David Burke, Vintage Rock, 2016
HE MAY BE renowned as a pioneer of outlaw country, but Waylon Jennings had a rock'n'roll past long before he caused apoplexy among the Nashville ...
Retrospective by David Burke, Vintage Rock, 2014
THE ANNALS OF rock 'n' roll are littered with tragic narratives of lives cut short in their prime, whether it be Eddie Cochran's death in ...
Jerry Lee Lewis: Lights, Camera, Action!
Retrospective by David Burke, Vintage Rock, 2019
THE YEAR WAS 1957, when Jerry Lee Lewis' parents finally caught up with much of America and bought a TV set. According to Rick Bragg, ...
Little Richard: Great Gosh A'Mighty
Retrospective by David Burke, Vintage Rock, 2018
THE FIRST SIGN appeared on a flight from Melbourne to Sydney in 1957. Little Richard was travelling up country as part of a touring bill ...
Rick Nelson: Ricky Nelson: Tragic Teen Idol And Rockabilly Tearaway
Profile by David Burke, Vintage Rock, Summer 2012
FOR SOMEONE who, in his pomp between 1957 and 1963, was almost as big as Elvis Presley, Ricky Nelson appeared neither comfortable with or conscious ...
Elvis Presley: Elvis and Black Music
Retrospective by David Burke, Vintage Rock, October 2015
SO THE STORY goes that Elvis stole black music, exploited the influences he absorbed while growing up on the blurred edges of the coloured line ...
Retrospective by David Burke, Vintage Rock, 1 October 2015
LEGENDARY AMERICAN producer Bob Johnston once suggested of Bob Dylan that he was "filled with the holy spirit". The same could have been said of ...
Cliff Richard: Arise, Sir Cliff
Retrospective by David Burke, Vintage Rock, 2018
FOR SOMEONE who'd enjoyed a consistent run of success, not to mention the adulation of the public since 'Move It'launched him as Britain's answer to ...
The Staple Singers: Working for the Lord
Retrospective and Interview by David Burke, Vintage Rock, March 2017
THE STAPLE SINGERS were Americana before the term was even coined. They may have emerged from the gospel tradition, but the Chicago family – father ...
Retrospective and Interview by David Burke, Vintage Rock, September 2014
IT WAS 1979. Year Zero had been and gone, though the confrontational, contrary spirit of punk was manifest in the new wave, while its emphasis ...
Sister Rosetta Tharpe: Hymn to Her
Retrospective by David Burke, Vintage Rock, May 2018
THE GODMOTHER of Rock'n'Roll, the Original Soul Sister, the First Lady of Rock are just some of the epithets posthumously bestowed on Sister Rosetta Tharpe ...
Big Mama Thornton: Big Mama's Blues
Retrospective by David Burke, Vintage Rock, November 2017
BIG MAMA THORNTON – alias Willie Mae Thornton – knew how it worked. Like her black R&B contemporaries, male and female (but especially female), she ...
Traveling Wilburys: Famous Five
Retrospective and Interview by David Burke, Vintage Rock, 2017
In the last year of his life, Roy Orbison enjoyed a renaissance in both his solo career and as part of a super group that ...
Frankie Valli: Back in the High Life Again
Retrospective and Interview by David Burke, Vintage Rock, May 2017
IF IT WASN'T for music, Frankie Valli might have ended up in a life of crime – just like Rusty Millio, the character he played ...
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