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...

Elvis confidant will host orchestral arena dates

3 ISSUES OF VINTAGE ROCK FOR THE PRICE OF 2

Mighty Manfreds roll out the hits

PRISCILLA BIOPIC SET FOR RELEASE

Wild Devils • We meet the fast-rising fourpiece from north of the border who are stretching genres and making waves on the rockabilly scene

BABY THIS IS Rock‘n’Roll • Matchbox pick up pace, branch out to the Continent and hit the TV promo circuit with some of the biggest music artists of the day

King Joe & The Atlantics • Reaching across musical boundaries but always rooted in red hot rhythm and blues, we meet the six-piece band who are keeping the vintage scene swingin’ and rockin’ all night long

HAVE GUITAR, WILL TRAVEL • When namechecking the trailblazers of rock’n’roll it’s absurd that Bo Diddley far too often gets overlooked. To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the first time he shook British shores on tour with his groundbreaking beat, Vintage Rock rights that wrong by paying tribute to ‘The Originator’…

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THE BLACK GLADIATOR

Classic album • He was ‘back home’ at Chess Records, the label that made him a star, but rock’n’roll’s poet laureate had yet to recapture the magic of the mid-50s. Luckily, help was at hand...

MOVIN’ ON UP • Some people regard Cliff Richard and the Drifters’ Move It not just as the first true British rock’n’roll recording, but also the greatest. On the 65th anniversary of its emergence from a session in EMI’s Studio Two in North West London, we trace its creation…

Rumble LINK WRAY • Sixty years ago, Link Wray’s 50s instrumental Rumble practically invented the power chord, became the centre of a moral panic and inspired a whole generation to pick up the electric guitar – and it all happened spontaneously…

ELVIS AT STAX HIT OR MISS? • Five decades since Elvis Presley recorded his often overlooked Stax tracks, the time is right to reappraise. Did they fall below par for the performer or are they underrated gems?

TOP TEN • Crazy dance moves, a surf classic, Cliff in the US and the Fab Four

FINLAND ROCKS! • Finland seems to possess an unusually high proportion of rockers with a healthy live scene and a continuous flow of new acts. But what is it that drives many of the population to look to the past for musical inspiration?

Rock ’n’ Roll Heroes • Already 33 when Whole Lotta Woman topped the UK charts in 1958, Marvin Rainwater never threatened to become a teen idol. It didn’t stop him cutting some of the most individualistic rockin’ sides of the era ….

THE BIRTH OF BEATLEMANIA • Sixty years after The Beatles made a game-changing appearance on Sunday Night At The London Palladium, Hall – the former custodian Colin of John Lennon’s childhood home – takes us back to the year the Fab Four rose to fame

Top 20 lesser-known Leiber and Stoller songs • Beyond hound dogging, yaketyyaking and rocking in the jailhouse, there’s a wealth of hidden Leiber and Stoller jewels waiting to be heard. Here’s our pick of the best…

California dreamin’ • In 1973, a pre-Star Wars George Lucas released a...