Fitting for a man who had an anthem called Race With The Devil, Gene Vincent lived life at a breakneck speed of heady extremes. He nearly died in 1960 in the UK, when he was in the Wiltshire car crash that took the life of Eddie Cochran. But Vincent survived. Clad in black leather and literally limping his way through the 60s, he was the archetype of tough-nut survivor, a never-say-die rocker who would not be bowed… even when rock’n’roll started to go out of fashion.
Vincent’s later days are the subject of this month’s excellent Vintage Rock cover feature by Jack Watkins who, with the help of Vincent peer and disciple, Graham Fenton of Matchbox, looks at Vincent’s life in the UK and Europe right up to his death. The advent of teen idols in the US meant that Vincent made the UK his home — this relentless rebel needed to find a rowdy port in the sanitised calm that had washed over the US rock’n’roll scene. In many ways, the arrested development of the UK was to its own advantage in this situation: still starved of regular rock’n’roll visitors and true stars, the UK rolled out the welcome mat for Gene and he jumped right in. It all ended sadly and tragically of course, after Vincent’s years of wild living seemed to catch up with him after a fall. But for the time he was here – and the records he made before – Vincent remains a true, tragic hero of rock’n’roll. Enjoy the feature, starting on page 20.
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