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.

Vintage Rock

Welcome

JOHN MAYALL OBE • 29 NOVEMBER 1933 – 22 JULY 2024

Hall of Fame induction honour for The Big O

BLUE SUEDE SHOES GETS A 2024 MAKEOVER

Last waltz at Pakefield for Wildest Cats weekender

POWER POP KING TO ROCK CANARY ISLANDS

Erika & The Ravens • The fast-rising frontwoman and DJ talks about overcoming her fear of performing, making The Ravens’ live debut with a little help from Jim Jones, and combining her passionate Spanish spirit with country and rock’n’roll

Booking The Casbah! – Beatles club for rent

EVENTS

Bamboozle • From Western Swing via rockabilly into something new, Bamboozle are honing their brand, building a family, and expanding their musical horizons. Serena Sykes gives us the inside story on their new attitude and direction.

Street smart STRUT THE STRAY CATS STORY While • While the Stray Cats recently celebrated 45 years of red-hot rockin’ on tour in the US, Vintage Rock caught up with friend of the magazine, Slim Jim Phantom, to reflect on how New York’s Runaway Boys became rockabilly revolutionaries

INTRODUCING THE MIDNIGHT COWGIRLS

THE BARNSTORMING ADVENTURES OF SLIM JIM

LIFE BEGINS AT FORTY

THE SECOND COMING OF LITTLE RICHARD • It’s 60 years since Little Richard Is Back (And There’s A Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On!) marked the Georgia Peach’s glorious return to rock’n’roll. We bow down before his majesty.

DON’T KNOCK THE ROCK • How Tom Jones went from Little Richard fan to collaborator

FRENEMIES ARE MADE OF THIS • Inside Little Richard and Jimi Hendrix’s complex relationship

Classic album • She belied her age on feisty rockers like Bigelow 6-200, Rock The Pop, Dynamite, Little Jonah (Rock On Your Steel Guitar) and Let’s Jump The Broomstick. But her second album showed Brenda Lee had more strings to her bow…

SELF-DESTRUCTIVE

PATSY AND CONNIE

Play it Steve! • Steve Cropper was one of Stax Records’ most valued songwriters, producers and guitarists, playing with everyone from Otis Redding to Sam & Dave and Wilson Pickett. Now, 63 years after his first hit, he’s about to release a new album, with a little help from some famous friends…

The Booker prize

Stax appeal

MEET THE GRANDMASTER • Fifty-five years after his death, Chess Records co-founder Leonard Chess remains a towering figure in musical history. In an exclusive interview, his son Marshall tells Vintage Rock of a highly-driven workaholic who is “forever linked to the birth of the beat”.

“CHUCK BERRY CHANGED MY LIFE!”

MAKING WAVES

THE REEL THING • It was the concert movie that broke boundaries, boasts a universe’s worth of stars and pitted James Brown against The Rolling Stones. So why is The T.A.M.I. Show so little-known?

He’ll keep you satisfied

On-screen Gems

VINTAGE ✶ ROCK TOP TEN WEEK ENDING 20 SEPTEMBER 1961 • John Leyton hits No.1 for the first and last time with Johnny Remember Me

Rock’n’Roll Heroes CHARLIE FEATHERS • The ultimate rockabilly cult figure, Charlie Feathers cut classics like Tongue-Tied Jill and...