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I was a teenager when rock’n’roll was coming through. It was a very inspiring time.

With 45th studio album Accentuate The Positive, Van Morrison returns to his roots, covering everyone from Chuck Berry to Fats Domino. Can Vintage Rock get the famously defensive icon to open up?

Welcome

Van Morrison has always been an artist clearly

Major Elvis exhibition takes us behind the curtain of The King’s life

Direct From Graceland: Elvis showcases over 400 items,

MATCHBOX REV UP AS ROCKERS REUNION PARTY HEADLINERS

Matchbox will be headlining this year’s Rockers Reunion

Emilio Santoro

We meet the Elvis tribute artist who’s made his mark globallylly with a host of competition wins

Hemsby 67 was their biggest bash of the last decade

Hemsby’s organisers are celebrating after their latest sell-out

ARETHA BOXSET WILL CELEBRATE HER 70S GEMS

A five-album Aretha Franklin boxset featuring her classic

EVENTS

*All listings subject to Covid restrictions and cancellations

Hail Hail Rock ’N’ Roll

We talk to Gavin Skelhorn, the producer and director at PNP Events, who reveals all about a rockin’ new stage show 

Jane Rose & The Deadends

The award-winning, Gretsch-slinging queen hits the road in the UK this winter, bringing her fiery blend of rockabilly and rhythm and blues all the way from Nashville

Baby this is Rock ‘n’ Roll

Matchbox strike it lucky in the States, meet the Phantom Flan Flinger on Tiswas and Graham makes a friend for life in Charlie Gracie

The Rock-A-Sonics

Maryland might be the eighth smallest state in the union, but there’s one quintet making a big noise on the scene. We meet the band ahead of their European debut this winter.

Vinyl LP Reviews

Hanna Hush challenges the norm, some Finnish rocking, Swedish country and Italian boppin’, plus more stonking R&B delights – and some Joy from the archives

Singles & EP Reviews

Stars of Blackpool’s 60s beat scene, Scottish rockabilly, full-bodied psychobilly, lost garage-punk gems, some old school boppin’, authentic country and Elvis Presley in technicolour

CD Album Reviews

Van The Man celebrates rock’n’roll’s greats, The Stones return, the King in Sin City and more Meek magic from the Holloway Road

SOUND TRACK Of My Life

Jenny Don’t And The Spurs

ELVIS ENDS 1956 AS A HISTORY-MAKER

29 DECEMBER 1956

The Big O’s Beautiful Dream

To mark the 35th anniversary of Roy Orbison’s passing, Vintage Rock talks to Roy Orbison Jr about his father’s remarkable life and meets the stars behind a marvellous modern musical which takes The Big O’s songs on a brand new journey

Paradise regained

Often regarded as Britain’s first real rock’n’roll star, 40 years after his untimely passing, Billy Fury is remembered in a new tribute show – with an intriguing twist

Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree

BRENDA LEE DECCA (1958)

Classic album

THEIR GREATEST HITS THE MIDNIGHTERS

TOP TEN

WEEK ENDING 7 NOV 1962

SUSPICIOUS MINDS

A new Hollywood biopic adapted from Priscilla Presley’s memoir Elvis And Me is set to take us behind those Graceland gates. Vintage Rock gets the inside story. 

Rock ’n’ Roll Heroes

CONWAY TWITTY

RELIC HUNTER

Few rock’n’roll fans are ever lucky enough to own their hero’s gold discs, belt buckles and personal photos, but Sonny West found himself buying up the contents of Eddie Cochran’s bedroom. Vintage Rock speaks to West about his enviable collection and to author Lee Bullman about the duo’s new book, Eddie Cochran In Person…

TOP 20 Latin rock’n’roll singles

20 CAUBY PEIXOTO Rock’N’Roll Em

CAN YOU DIG IT?

Colin Hanton and Rod Davis recall playing drums and banjo in John Lennon’s first group, The Quarry Men – and how later recruits Paul McCartney and George Harrison turned the combo into The Beatles

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MANFRED MANN

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EMILIO SANTORO

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Hail, Hail ROCK ‘N’ ROLL

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VINTAGE ROCK

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HEMSBY ROCK 'N' ROLL

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PEN Y BRYN ANIMALS

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OMNIBUS PRESS

ROCKSTARS REUNION

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Tammi Savoy

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Christmas

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ROCKIN' RACE

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