Looking back 60 years to 1959 reveals a vintage year for rockabilly and rock’n’roll with releases spanning both the genre and the oceans from Eddie Cochran’s Somethin’ Else through to Vince Taylor’s Brand New Cadillac, Freddy Cannon’s Tallahassee Lassie to Cli Richard and The Drifters’ Living Doll. Rock’n’roll made up almost half of the year’s record sales in the United States, but as teenage heartthrob Frankie Avalon took his saccharine love ballad Why to No.1 that year, he ushered in the decade of the pop idol. Rock’n’roll’s days were all but numbered.