Vintage Rock

VINTAGE ROCK celebrates a time when music changed the world - 45s, youth culture and the odd thrusting pelvis. Vintage Rock chronicles all the stellar artists and music, the enduring legacy of those early pioneers - and why it’s still the best way to live. Spanning the dawn of the 50s to early Beatles (pre Eastern mysticism!), Vintage Rock covers a time of Mods and Rockers, crinoline skirts and blue jeans, rock star movies and screaming-girl concerts. This special magazine rejoices in the music and verve of Elvis, The Shadows, Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Gene Vincent and a host more, and speaks to a contemporary audience that relishes the vitality and flair of the era.

WELCOME...

VINTAGE ROCK

Wildest Cats 21st bash pulls in star names

BLUE PLAQUE HONOUR AWARDED TO EDDIE COCHRAN AT ICONIC BRISTOL THEATRE

Valli and Four Seasons compiled in full for 45-disc deluxe boxset

A SLICE OF BECK’S HISTORY GOES UNDER THE HAMMER

EVENTS

Tom Ingram Q&A

The Hey Las • Don’t let their wholesome, good girl image fool you. Inspired by a twisted cabaret, this trio can sing the sweetest harmonies or embrace the darkness with their Lynchian doo-wop.

BABY THIS IS Rock ‘n’ Roll • Matchbox’s star rises with a fiery new album, their radio breakthrough and TV debuts on Top Of The Pops and Multi-Coloured Swap Shop

Isaac Webb Trio • Three friends from a briny corner of the world are keeping the rockabilly flame burning bright in the 21st Century. It’s a tale of lumpsuckers, old schoolhouses and bopping pigeons!

Hometown GLORY • Little Richard had a complicated relationship with his birthplace of Macon, Georgia. Now, with a slew of renewed interest in his raucous rock’n’roll, the late piano pounder is finally receiving his due. Vintage Rock makes the pilgrimage to Atlanta to find out more…

Putting The King And Queen On-screen

Keep-A-Lookin’: Little Richard Deep Cut Picks

Eats And Backbeats: The Vintage Rock Guide To Macon

Classic album • 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 singer from Kansas City will always be regarded as a central figure in the development of rock’n’roll. We take a look at his second album for the Atlantic label...

“Rock’n’Roll is universal. It’s a drug like no other.” • As they celebrate their 20th anniversary, red hot Scouse rockabilly trio Furious recall their colourful and surreal musical history thus far – from the Cavern to California, to capers with Crazy Cavan...

LOOKING BACK IN WONDER

ESSENTIAL SELECTION

In Dreams ROY ORBISON • Sixty years ago, Roy Orbison released a single like none before it. In Dreams helped him upstage The Beatles and, 23 years later, introduced him to a whole new generation of fans.

TEENAGE KICKS • Sixty-five years after Poor Little Fool became the first No.1 song on Billboard’s new Hot 100, Vintage Rock charts the rise of Ricky Nelson and his fellow Teen Angels

VINTAGE ROCK TOP TEN • The King’s first UK No.1, doo-wop skiffle, and several all-time classics

THE STATE OF INDEPENDENCE • Running your own indie record label isn’t just the preserve of the super-rich. With a combination of focus, determination and blind optimism it can be within anyone’s reach. Vintage Rock meets those who’ve taken the plunge to serve up our definitive guide to entering the rockin’ business.

THE BIG BOPPER • 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 masterpiece Chantilly Lace. Although destined to be a one-hit wonder, the track showcased a talented songwriter…

“From my old man I’ve learnt to be...